JohnAJohnson
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Anyone know where I can get these braces? I'm looking for various sizes.
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Hand Rests
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Lachlan
En-Route
You can get the first one right from the manufacturer, but I have no idea where you’ll find the second one.
455 Bravo Uniform
Final Approach
Looks like a brushed pewter drawer-pull handle from the hardware store.
I was thinking the same. Doesn’t look too difficult to replicate.
JohnAJohnson
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455 Bravo Uniform
Final Approach
That’s some serious hardware (no pun). What are you flying?
JohnAJohnson
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That's not my plane. The picture is a C-141. I will be building a panel and remembered how useful those were and wanted to install the same type of bracket on mine below radios, etc.
EdFred
Taxi to Parking
Useful for what exactly? I'm trying to figure out why I would want to extend my arm all the way to the panel and leave it there. My right hand usually sits in my lap once in cruise.
Lndwarrior
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Gary
You probably know this already but just in case - home built panels are typically light weight and require additional bracing just to support the instruments. Adding a grab handle to the panel seems like to would take extra reinforcing in an area that is typically quite congested. I added grab handles on my plane but put them on the turtle deck where it was easier to install extra L angles directly under the sheet metal and connect back to the firewall.
JohnAJohnson
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Timbeck2
Final Approach
I have a lot of flying hours in the back of a C-141. You must have the only one still flying.
JohnAJohnson
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Na, my avatar (a Kiwi) says what I'm flying these days
Hopefully that will change in a couple of weeks, depending on a prepurchase inspection.
Hopefully that will change in a couple of weeks, depending on a prepurchase inspection.