Ceconite rejuvenation

[Joe]

Not sure - I may have saved mine. Will look tomorrow.

Strongly suggest Tinnermans and #8s, with those dimpled washers.

I'm OK with that route if I can't come up with the clips, but the clips made it the first 40 years without incident. If anyone has a source, I'd be happy to buy them.

 

[Big Ed]

I'm OK with that route if I can't come up with the clips, but the clips made it the first 40 years without incident. If anyone has a source, I'd be happy to buy them.

Do you still have carpet, or are you going bare wood? The clips are fine under carpet, but those stupid prongs snag things when exposed.

 

[Joe]

but those stupid prongs snag things when exposed

Good point. I'd considered ditching the carpet, but the vinyl on my side panels would need to be reworked a little to trim in against the floor, it extends a few inches under the carpet. By the way congratulations on a year's flying well spent.

 

[Big Ed]

Good point. I'd considered ditching the carpet, but the vinyl on my side panels would need to be reworked a little to trim in against the floor, it extends a few inches under the carpet. By the way congratulations on a year's flying well spent.

I ditched my carpet last spring. It's a mixed bag. On the one hand, it is lighter and simpler, and much easier to pull the seats and floorboards for maintenance on the controls and cables. The vinyl does stick out an inch or two, but in practice that has zero impact on anything. I might trim it and and rig up some aluminum L channel as a hold down.

Two negatives to no carpet: first, hardware can more easily get dropped through holes in the plywood. The nuts and bolts that fasten the seats to the frame lugs are especially susceptible to this. That leads to a scavenger hunt in the belly, since you don't want unaccounted-for-hardware roaming around in the tail of an aerobatic aircraft. Second, if you are on a sandy field like I am, all that sand that would get trapped by the carpet accumulates on the plywood and falls into the belly too, where presumably it will wear on mechanical parts. I have taken to wiping my shoes when I get into the aircraft to avoid that. I think if you are on a paved ramp or well kept grass, that would be a non-issue.

 

[dcparsons]

Have I hooked up the hyd line correctly. The parking brake works in reverse???? The rubber lines are going to the master cylinders.

 

[dcparsons]

Disregard, I figured it out , thanks