[William Shepard]

Does anyone have a close up picture of the canopy bow attaching hardware? I am looking for items #11 and #12. They look to be some little brackets or retainers. Whoever took this thing apart lost them.

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Making a little progress on the project. Fabricated new panels out of sheet metal for the bag compartment, covered with hyde of the nauga. Glareshield done with black fabric, matte black.

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Does anyone have a close up picture of the canopy bow attaching hardware? I am looking for items #11 and #12. They look to be some little brackets or retainers. Whoever took this thing apart lost them.

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New windshield fitment….Canopy is next.

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New instrument panel deck in progress

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Finally shot the inside with Stitts Epoxy primer and installed provisions for the remote boxes. Built new wire harnesses, new instrument panel deck in progress

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Epoxy primer

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Wings finally cleaned up and primed. Zinc chromate first, followed by sandable epoxy primer. Polyurethane top coat to follow.

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Yikes! The LP instructions list the Proseal type sealant with the PR142 primer. I guess I’ll try it and hope they are correct.

[William Shepard]

A Collins GLS350 glideslope receiver, Collins TCR451 DME RT, Narco AR850 encoder, King KG102A DG. Still need to add the ADS-B. Initial W&B calculations indicate ok. Baggage limit was 100lb, this stuff is about 10 lb. Needed it to drive the excessively equipped panel.

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Using LP Areoplastics windshield. so will be using per the instructions. PR142 adhesion promoter (Primer) and the 2 part polysulfide B-2 bonding adhesive. Either 890 b2 or the one sold by Flamemasters. I believe either will work. Finished the final trimming and fitting today, have not drilled any holes yet. Roscoe has a good video out there showing some helpful hints. The spacer blocks are absolutely required for proper alignment, using a unibit for the holes also works well. I will position an engine hoist near the rear window (I can’t reach the top of the hangar to tie a rope) to assist in egress. It’s either that or sit inside the airplane for the three days it takes to cure the adhesive. As soon as the windshield is complete, the canopy is next up. Both are 3/16 thick, the windshield is clear, the canopy is gray tint.

[William Shepard]

Same paint scheme as mine, they must have painted a bunch of them like that. I’ll probably paint mine in the original scheme as well.

[William Shepard]

Wow! You now have a project for sure. There are plenty of folks on here with experience with these aircraft and are able to help with advice and links to suppliers of parts. I removed the paint from my project by using a 5″ DA sander (air) with 220 WET disc. GENTLY (like petting a baby duck) taking off most paint. The areas the sander doesn’t reach were soda blasted. Harbor Freight sells a small soda blaster and the medium grit soda (you will use several bags of the stuff). I also purchased a portable garage from them to contain the blast media. I set up the portable garage in my hangar where I have a large compressor, you will need a lot of air at around 90psi. Do you have the maintenance manual and parts book, there are very handy.

[William Shepard]

You will want to check the prices at Wag Aero for new belts and shoulder harness before re-webbing an old set, it might be cheaper to just purchase new.

I did just receive the new firewall blanket material from them, looks just like the original..

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[William Shepard]

I purchased some used ones a while back, however I found what looks like a better deal at Wag Aero. You could buy two sets of seatbelts and a single set of the shoulder harness kit, since the -1B only uses a single strap for each seat. That would give you a new approved set.

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