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"Sometimes the easy things are
hard and viseversa. Does anyone have insight into fitting the glare shield
as well as most of the other Legacy parts do. I am not happy with
it's present fit and wonder if cutting it or maybe camlocs would improve
things"
I assume this is referring to the instrument panel
glare shield. A friend of mine tried cutting and fitting the stock glare
shield and never could get a decent fit. He finally gave up on it and
built one from scratch. He cut and fit pieces of foam behind the top of
the instrument panel until he got the contour he wanted, and one that fit inside
the closed canopy. He then did a wet layup over the foam (I don't recall
how many BID), then removed the foam after the layup cured, and then did some
final shaping and smoothing with micro. It came out very nice. I
know Lancair has been made aware of the fit problem (several months ago) and I
have to say I'm a little disappointed that they done anything about it
yet. I guess they have other priorities and builders seem to be getting
by, one way or another.
Tom Gourley
L2K #122
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