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Buck's RV-8
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Date: 6-13-2007
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Number of Hours: 2.10
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Brief Description: Cockpit side consoles
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This evening I fabricated the F-864D angle (part of the throttle quadrant).
Next, I spent some time with cardboard, scissors and tape, in an effort to mock-up a cardboard template of my design for a side console on the right side of the cockpit. I've seen these sloped side panels on several RV-8s, and I really like them. As with many the mods I'm doing to this airplane, this one looks like it'll involve quite a bit of work.
The front part of the sloped panel will mate to the bottom of the instrument subpanel, and will be the same width. My initial design has it tapering as it goes rearward, until it's about the same width as the right armrest. I like the design -- it's simple, and there's plenty of room on it for whatever auxiliary controls I'll probably need. I need to determine if it will block my view of anything that might be mounted on the right mid-cabin cover below it. If so, I'll have to trrim it down a bit.
Next, I assembled and test-fit the stock throttle-quadrant support in order to visualize what kind of similar layout I could do there. To make a sloped console on the left, I'd need to move the throttle-quadrant about five inches aft and about two inches inboard. Will this be a comfortable position? I don't know, and I'll have to find out, from some of the people who have done it. I also have to research how I'd mount the throttle and route the control cables. There is very little information on this mod available on the web, so I'm probably going to have to engineer it "on the fly."
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Cardboard mock-up of a side console I plan to build.
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The stock throttle-quadrant mount. Still trying to decide what to do on the left side...
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