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Wed Aug 12, 2015 9:24 am

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mmartin1872 wrote:Edited because I was getting a little political. . Can't remember the policy on that. Lol

Haha! Sorry, I egged you on.
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Wed Aug 12, 2015 9:41 am

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mmartin1872 wrote:Edited because I was getting a little political. . Can't remember the policy on that. Lol

Haha! Sorry, I egged you on.

No problem. . I just know that there is a political party in bc that isn't business friendly even though business keeps their union brothers employed. . They love to bite the hand that feeds them.. lol
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Wed Aug 12, 2015 9:43 am

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Yup. Well we can still be friends even though you fly an NDP plane. Haha. I'll forgive you.
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Wed Aug 12, 2015 10:07 am

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mmartin1872 wrote:Going carbon fibre might be an issue though.. It's not like it's structural but I can't find any advisory circulars that give any reference for strength and replacement of aluminum material for carbon fibre. Which brings it into the realm of needing an Stc. You'd have to find acceptable data, or create acceptable data for installation as the manufacturer of your replacement instrument panel.......


Does using carbon fiber have enough advantage over aluminum to make it worth the hassle, other than being able to say "that's a carbon fiber panel"? An aluminum panel in a 182 doesn't hardly weigh enough to worry about -- if trimming some weight off is important, there's other places where you can lose more weight easier.
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Wed Aug 12, 2015 10:31 am

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mmartin1872 wrote:Going carbon fibre might be an issue though.. It's not like it's structural but I can't find any advisory circulars that give any reference for strength and replacement of aluminum material for carbon fibre. Which brings it into the realm of needing an Stc. You'd have to find acceptable data, or create acceptable data for installation as the manufacturer of your replacement instrument panel.......


Does using carbon fiber have enough advantage over aluminum to make it worth the hassle, other than being able to say "that's a carbon fiber panel"? An aluminum panel in a 182 doesn't hardly weigh enough to worry about -- if trimming some weight off is important, there's other places where you can lose more weight easier.

I wasn't sure if there was a hassle or not. Hence why I asked. If there wasn't a hassle I do think it would be worth it.
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Wed Aug 12, 2015 12:06 pm

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That's going to look awesome! Black and orange was one of the original 182 colors. I also like how you stuck with the working old radios and didn't have to spend 10k on an upgrade.
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Wed Aug 12, 2015 4:28 pm

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This is the most the painters would let me see today. . They're masking off the interior in order to spray it tomorrow

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Wed Aug 12, 2015 4:55 pm

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Me likes. Who's painting it for you? Upper valley?
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Wed Aug 12, 2015 5:10 pm

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That is where I work Monday to Friday. I work on the "maintenance" side though.. Doing most of the sheet metal work and reassembly after paint. Along with the fabric work and a little bit of "annual" work.. It's actually a nice gig, Monday to Friday home on weekends and no commute. Plus I can walk out the door, hop in my plane and fly away, to de stress my day..
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Wed Aug 12, 2015 5:13 pm

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Ok. Awesome. I plane on getting the 180 down there for paint one of these summers.
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Wed Aug 12, 2015 7:32 pm

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PAMR MX wrote:That's going to look awesome! Black and orange was one of the original 182 colors. I also like how you stuck with the working old radios and didn't have to spend 10k on an upgrade.

I'm really liking how it is turning out. . The old radios still worked, so we didn't see the point in changing them out.. Maybe next year or the year after. Might upgrade to a tsod icom 200 out of the tcraft that is hanging in our rafters. . And if the transponder ever dies we have a garmin sitting on the shelf wanting to be installed.
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Wed Aug 12, 2015 7:58 pm

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Is that a narco transponder?
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Thu Aug 13, 2015 4:38 pm

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It is a narco transponder.

Interior finished getting prepped and sprayed today. Image
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Tomorrow should be an unmasking day and I'll finally get to see the airplane
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Thu Aug 13, 2015 5:10 pm

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Looking good!
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Fri Aug 14, 2015 12:18 pm

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I think I'm going to like it.
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Time for Reassembly after work
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Fri Aug 14, 2015 2:13 pm

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That looks good!
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Fri Aug 14, 2015 3:46 pm

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That's looks real good!
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Fri Aug 14, 2015 8:44 pm

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Finally! The anticipation was getting to be too much. Looking forward to the completed project. =P~
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Fri Aug 14, 2015 10:24 pm

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Cool paint job!! What was the inspiration for the paint scheme?
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Sat Aug 15, 2015 6:02 am

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We wanted a paint scheme that looked almost stock, ie straight lines and "hockey sticks", but just a little different. . And then we chose two colours, either orange or green. Once we decided to use orange because we saw a paint chip that just said "pick me, " we had top choose the trim color. We chose black as the trim mainly because we couldn't think of a colour that went with orange.
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