{"id":315,"date":"2014-04-24T16:50:38","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T16:50:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-14T05:26:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T05:26:57","slug":"test-fit-new-avionics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2014\/04\/24\/test-fit-new-avionics\/","title":{"rendered":"Test Fit New Avionics"},"content":{"rendered":"

I cut the holes for the new avionics boxes and test fit them into the holes. \u00a0Cutting these holes in place was a real pain. \u00a0The nibbler I had wouldn’t cut 0.063″ thick sheet, and I didn’t have anything else that would work well. \u00a0I ended up drilling a series of 1\/4″ holes around the perimeter and using a file to open the hole up enough for the avionics to fit. \u00a0It was quite a bit of iteration and it ended up taking me nearly 2 hours to get them cut. \u00a0That was still way faster than pulling the panel out of the plane though. \u00a0With everything installed and aligned, I drilled the mounting holes through the holes in the face of the avionics.<\/p>\n

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Afterward, I pulled the new boxes and the GTN, then used a scrap miniature #6 nutplate to drill holes for the rivets that will hold the nutplates in place. \u00a0I still need to countersink the holes and rivet them in place, but I’m beat tonight. \u00a0It shouldn’t take more than a couple more hours to finish up the nutplates and then fabricate a few new network cables to tie the boxes together. \u00a0The autopilot control box (on the right in the picture above) also includes a trim controller that essentially does the same function as the VP-X that controls the trim now. \u00a0In the future though, Dynon plans to add auto-trim to their autopilot, so I’ll eventually rewire the trim to go through this box.<\/p>\n

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I cut the holes for the new avionics boxes and test fit them into the holes. \u00a0Cutting these holes in place was a real pain. \u00a0The nibbler I had wouldn’t cut 0.063″ thick sheet, and I didn’t have anything else that would work well. \u00a0I ended up drilling a series of 1\/4″ holes around the … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avionics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3768,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/3768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}