Hi John,
Thanks for the compliments. I used Ranthane paint for the plane and panel. I set the panel perfectly flat and loaded it up with paint!
For the glareshield I used black microfiber cloth.
Hi John,
Thanks for the compliments. I used Ranthane paint for the plane and panel. I set the panel perfectly flat and loaded it up with paint!
For the glareshield I used black microfiber cloth.
-Mike Kraus
RV-4 built and sold :-(
RV-10 built and flying
KitFox SS7 built and flying and now on amphib floats!
Oh man, another guy I won't be able to park my Kitfox next to! Nice job Mike very professional and clean . A well thought out panel indeed. Bruce N199CL
Yes indeed, that is one beautiful panel. My only concern would be reflection you are going to get, especially since the KF has the full skylight. I get plenty of reflection off of my screens alone.
Have you thought about making the placard with white font and black background?
Phil Nelson
A&P-IA, Maintenance Instructor
KF 5 Outback, Cont. IO-240
Flying since 2016
I have had similar panels (gloss black) in all my planes.... RV-4, RV-10, and now the KitFox. It has never been an issue for me, even in the bubble canopy of the -4...... I did order the white lettered dry transfer placard/decal from AS&S, it should arrive tomorrow. I may swap it out, we'll see.
-Mike Kraus
RV-4 built and sold :-(
RV-10 built and flying
KitFox SS7 built and flying and now on amphib floats!
G'day Mike,
That panel certainly does look very nicely planned out and executed and I'm sure it'll be a pleasure to fly behind.
Can I ask where you got your switches and what model/type they are. I much prefer those to the 'normal' toggle switches and like the way you've incorporated them into the panel. I am quite willing to steal the idea of anybody who comes up with a design like yours
Hi Paul,
Believe it or not, they are the Tyco W31 series breaker switches.....only flush mounted..... I laid out the hole pattern I wanted on the instrument panel. I then bent a piece of 0.063 aluminum 90 degrees to make a doubler for the bottom if the IP. I clamped and match drilled through both pieces. I then installed the switches with nuts to the doubler behind the IP and bolted this assembly to the lower lip of the IP. Hopefully you can see it in the attached photo, it was rather simple to do.
Last edited by N213RV; 03-29-2017 at 07:29 PM.
-Mike Kraus
RV-4 built and sold :-(
RV-10 built and flying
KitFox SS7 built and flying and now on amphib floats!
Thank you for the reply, Mike and what a great idea. The toggle switches look great and you've got a combined switch and CB, so don't have to have so many 'normal' round ones popping through the panel (excuse the very poor pun). I love some of the imagination and ingenuity that's shown by guys like you