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Date:  11-29-2015
Number of Hours:  7.50
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Brief Description:  Air Vent Prep and Mounting

For cost sake, I decided to use the Van’s Vent Sidewall Kit for the cabin vents, rather than the more popular NACA inlet/eyeball setup. The Van’s Kit cost $18.00 for both sides, so the savings is significant. Before making this decision, I talked to my neighbor who built and is now flying a Van’s RV-12, using this cabin vent system. He said these vents work very well for his two-place aircraft, so I believe it will be sufficient for my Panther.

The parts were separated, sanded, then cleaned up with a Scotch wheel. The parts are good quality, but do not rise to the SPA quality standards. One of the vent doors was mounted to the position I selected on the left cabin skin with clecos. The rivet holes in the door were transferred to the skin and the perimeter of the door was marked on the cabin skin with a felt pen. The vent door was removed from the left skin, then the right skin was clecoed to the back side of the left skin and the rivet holes were transferred to the right skin.

The openings in the skin were fabricated by drilling the four corners, then cutting between the holes with a fiber reinforced Dremel cut-off wheel. This was followed with careful filing to finish off the openings. The assemblies were mounted with clecos and operated smoothly. Riveting the vents to the skins will wait until the skins are ready for final assembly.
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