I took the seat to work to weigh it (4.062lb) and got a great suggestion to use hose-clamps to mount the seat to the cross-tubes. My initial thought was to put one at each end of the aft seat tube to provide best support. However, those locations would have interfered with the control cables, so I went with a single clamp in the center.
After cutting out the first slots and test mounting the seat, I
marked the locations for the shoulder and seat-belts. Those slots were
cut with the Dremel using a burr and cleaned with a sanding drum. The
edges were generously rounded to prevent sharp edges from cutting the
seat-belt (that will be an area of inspection).
After all that, here's the seat mounted. Yippee, onward to the next thing.
Seat:
- DONE seat mold body work
- DONE finish the seat mold
- DONE pull a seat from the mold
- DONE mount the seat to the nose
- change control stick axis bolt to drilled with cotter pin (will have to remove the torque tube)
- aileron crank tube slots
- sidewalls in forward nose section (G4N13)
- make a nose skid (G4N10)
- AN3-26A bolt into the forward line guide bracket, replacing a rivet (G4T14)
- swage aft cables (4x remaining)
- round off the tail skid to be more roundy than pointy
- new cabane aft tubes with sleeves
- cabane compression braces (some are loose after the cabane rework from G3 to G4 design)
- glass the ribs to LE and TE
- stiffener for aileron control line
- leading edge shell (G4S9)
- glass the right aileron ribs
- flip fwd aileron control horn bolt to other direction ... and switch to AN3-13
- rivet aileron crank tube to trailing edge (G4S4)
- wrap every pulley with tape and heat shrink to hold stiff and straight
- threadlock on every quick-link
- DONE neoprene eyebolt spacer: horizontal stab (G4T8), elevator control arm (G4T16), tail strut (G4T19)
- check every quick pin for elastic retainers are both present and correct length (several are just singles)
- DONE 1" wide fiberglass tape (I ran out on the aileron, also needed for the ribs to LE/TE joint)
- DONE (1x) AN3-26A for fwd tail line guide (G4T14)
- DONE (2x) AN3-13 for aileron fwd control linkages
- nose skid plastic plate
- covering and adhesive
- (1x) 1/8" SS quick-link
1 comment:
Wow! That's a great seat! I'll buy you a beer if you make me one!
Jeff
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