REFLECTOR: Seats

[Al Gietzen]

Larry;

In my kit purchased in '96, the seat parts were all the same.  The backs
slant a little to one side, apparently because the mold was not straight.
It is not enough to matter.
The seat bottoms are too wide for the front seats - when moved forward they
hit the door frame.  On the later kits the seats were made about 1"
narrower.  Rather then replace mine with the narrower ones, I modified the
bottoms for the front seats tapering the outside edge from just in front of
the hinge attachment to the front corner so it was about 1" narrower at the
front.

I also reinforced the side flanges on the front seat backs from the hinge
hardpoints up toward the top so things didn't distort so much when there was
force put on the seatbacks.

Al

-----Original Message-----
From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
Behalf Of lawrence epstein
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 5:02 PM
To: reflector at tvbf.org
Subject: REFLECTOR: Seats

I am assembling the seats and I noticed that despite having 2 seat pans 
marked "front seat bottom" and 2 marked "rear seat bottom", all 4 appear to 
be identical. The same holds true for the seat backs.

Does anyone know if they are supposed to be different? (Scott?)

In fact, all 4 seat backs appear to slope more on the right hand side, which

would seem to be appropriate   for a passenger (right) seat, conforming to 
the slope of the fuselage side.   I would expect the left/pilot side seat 
backs to slope the other way.

Did I get 2 pair of the same seats by mistake? (Mine is an OLD kit, 
delivered 6/1996)

I did put the hinges on and (as has been mentioned before) the seat back 
sides are not parallel.  Instead of bending the hinges/tightening them down 
to conform and thereby distorting the hinges, i was planning on building a 
pad of microglass under the hinge arms to create a flat surface to tighten 
down on. Anybody see a problem with this?

I also remember conversations about reinforcing the seats, but has anyone 
actually had a failure/breakage?

Thanks all,

Larry E.


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