Instrument Panel

Instrument Panel
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The test fit of everything I have for the panel went well. The enunciator light holes needed a little file work to fit properly. Also the XLR power jack for the ANR headset needed tweaking too. Other than that everything fit like a glove. Now, how much time and aggravation did it save me doing it this way? Plenty! I tied to put a bend in the panel to stiffen it up, but the *' brake couldn't bend it. I had to find someone with a hydraulic press brake. I found one and the owner did it for free so he is getting some more business from me
As long as it was being cut out I had my reserved N-number cut through the panel.
I intend to back light this with a strip of electro- luminescent light tape( More about that later). My numbers just happen to work out with no hole dropouts, like an O would give you. I used temporary brass screws for display at our fall flymarket at the Nashua Airport.
The panel in zinc chromate primer fitted to the fuselage.