{"id":3540,"date":"2016-10-23T20:11:06","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T00:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=3540"},"modified":"2016-11-06T20:59:51","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T01:59:51","slug":"racking-and-stacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=3540","title":{"rendered":"Racking and stacking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Getting a little frustrated with tweaking engine stuff, so in preparation for permanently installing the subpanel I started working on fitting the avionics racks.<\/p>\n

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The GMC-307 autopilot controller was easy.<\/p>\n

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Wasn’t so easy to get a correctly-aligned hole in the subpanel to accommodate the GTN-650 rack (the comm\/WAAS GPS\/VOR\/localizer\/ILS does-everything box).<\/p>\n

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Also had to make sure the GTN-650 and GMA-245 (that’s the audio panel) racks were correctly spaced from each other.<\/p>\n

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Took a lot of filing and fitting to get to this point. The rear rack mount “ears” are actually riveted to two 0.063″ angles that will be held in place by nutplates. I would’ve preferred just to attach them to the front side of the subpanel, but the rack attachment fasteners are too close to the subpanel to allow that.<\/p>\n

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A nice bit of visual progress, don’t you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Getting a little frustrated with tweaking engine stuff, so in preparation for permanently installing the subpanel I started working on fitting the avionics racks. The GMC-307 autopilot controller was easy. Wasn’t so easy to get a correctly-aligned hole in the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avionics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3550,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540\/revisions\/3550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}