Ah man Bagarre,

For some reason that is way beyond my "tech" skills to figure out all your pics are blanked out, my "polished 170" withdrawal symptoms are hitting an all time high !!!!!!

For some reason they are now busted for me too.
But if I right click on the broken link and pick 'Open link in new tab' - I can see the photo.
Something with the way google images is making the link and BCP (probably PHPBB) is handling them.

@Zzz, any thoughts?

Zane is traveling right now, but I can help with the linking issue. The problem is that the link you put into the forum no longer works. It's pointing to:

"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/m03_BBBj1Hv8nezhQLTg3........."

And the image is no longer at that location.

Now, I don't know how you posted the link or how it got into google's caching server, but I do know that the best way to get the images on here are to repost them.

There are two ways to do this, the preferred, but cumbersome way, and the not preferred and easy way:

1. The preferred way is to upload your images to your gallery. Click on the "Me" icon in the top right, then "My photos" then put them there, then once they are posted, right click, "copy image location" and past them here. The reason is because the images are browsable by any user wanting to look at your project without needing to find this thread.

2. The easy way is to just upload them to the forum with the upload file/image attachment tab of a post.

So in summary, you can link to offsite images, which you did, but if the offsite system quits working, your images go away. Or you can upload the pictures to the gallery and link to them there so that stuff is organized and easy to find, or you can just upload your images directly to the thread.

Hope that helps,
schu

The crazy thing is, I'm following how Google says to link to images and it works sometimes.
Following the link allows you to view the image but even for me, sometimes I can view them via the website here and other times I get a broken link.

Either way, I'll circle back to it at some point.

Bagarre wrote:The crazy thing is, I'm following how Google says to link to images and it works sometimes.
Following the link allows you to view the image but even for me, sometimes I can view them via the website here and other times I get a broken link.

Either way, I'll circle back to it at some point.

Is there a privacy setting in your Google Photos? It could be you can view them because you're authenticated to Google as the owner, but we're not.

Zzz wrote:

Bagarre wrote:The crazy thing is, I'm following how Google says to link to images and it works sometimes.
Following the link allows you to view the image but even for me, sometimes I can view them via the website here and other times I get a broken link.

Either way, I'll circle back to it at some point.

Is there a privacy setting in your Google Photos? It could be you can view them because you're authenticated to Google as the owner, but we're not.

I think that's it. The images are public but public to google accounts. So if you're not authenticated to GSomething already in your browser, the link isnt working. Explains why some people could see them while others cant. Just checked with another browser. Well crap. I need a new image hosting site.

Putting the project to good use

I moved the images to BCP to fix the google photo issue.

The roof liner is done. I went with 1/4" closed cell foam with a wool felt laminated on. It's attached to the roof with 1/4" double sided tape where needed. Most of it stays in place by itself tho.

Rear seat is an 18oz flame resistant vinyl material laced up with kevlar (flame proof). The whole rear seat comes in at nine pounds and isn't terribly uncomfortable.



The side panels are 1/2" closed cell foam with a lighter 13oz vinyl laminated. It turned out pretty nice and will be easy to clean.
It was pretty easy to make these. Paper templates cut out on adhesive backed foam. Laminate the vinyl to the cut foam and use 1/2" double sided tape to secure the sides and back where the vinyl folds over.

Fuel steps are on!
I followed the service kit for the doublers and location. Still need painted gray and wrapped in friction tape but, I'm happy.

Horizontal stabilizer is completely done less final polish.





As well as the whole tail section.
I was able to install and verify all control throws so there are no surprised at final assembly.

Looking great!

Gorgeous 170! Making me jealous [emoji6]

That is looking really good, I am very impressed.

I really like the laminated wool/vinyl on the insulation. I have hesitated to strip my headliner out because I dont like the look of the raw foam. Definitely on the list now.

daedaluscan wrote:That is looking really good, I am very impressed.

I really like the laminated wool/vinyl on the insulation. I have hesitated to strip my headliner out because I dont like the look of the raw foam. Definitely on the list now.

If you do it, laminate a large section of foam (4'x4') and cut the panels out second with a sharp razor.
Trying to wrap the edge didn't look good to me.
It's a LOT easier to cut the foam and felt at the same time and the edge is a lot cleaner too.

The felt is 1/16" thick and holds shape against the edge of the foam nicely. I would have used headliner wool but no one makes it in dark gray.

The vinyl on the other hand looked terrible with a cut edge so I wrapped that.

Bagarre wrote: Rear seat is an 18oz flame resistant vinyl material laced up with kevlar (flame proof). The whole rear seat comes in at nine pounds and isn't terribly uncomfortable.

Everything looks great!
I'm curious about the rear seat mod--
is this a field approval deal, logbook entry, or a Nike job (aka "just do it!")?
A friend of mine did something similar to his C180 bench rear seat years ago,
only he stretched ceconite on the seat bottom and back, kinda like on the BAS / Lakevue jumpseats.

hotrod180 wrote:

Bagarre wrote: Rear seat is an 18oz flame resistant vinyl material laced up with kevlar (flame proof). The whole rear seat comes in at nine pounds and isn't terribly uncomfortable.

Everything looks great!
I'm curious about the rear seat mod--
is this a field approval deal, logbook entry, or a Nike job (aka "just do it!")?
A friend of mine did something similar to his C180 bench rear seat years ago,
only he stretched ceconite on the seat bottom and back, kinda like on the BAS / Lakevue jumpseats.

Nothing has been replaced or changed except the upholstery which is a logbook entry.

Looks great. My 180 could look the same if.......

A rear seat “upgrade” is on my to do for this winter, can you offer any further details on yours it looks perfect. If I understand correctly it’s still the original frame just recovered correct ?

Bagarre wrote:

daedaluscan wrote:That is looking really good, I am very impressed.

I really like the laminated wool/vinyl on the insulation. I have hesitated to strip my headliner out because I dont like the look of the raw foam. Definitely on the list now.

If you do it, laminate a large section of foam (4'x4') and cut the panels out second with a sharp razor.
Trying to wrap the edge didn't look good to me.
It's a LOT easier to cut the foam and felt at the same time and the edge is a lot cleaner too.

The felt is 1/16" thick and holds shape against the edge of the foam nicely. I would have used headliner wool but no one makes it in dark gray.

The vinyl on the other hand looked terrible with a cut edge so I wrapped that.

Where did you get the felt?

3M spray glue?