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Looking for Scale Drawing of 1946 Instrument Panel

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Does anyone have a scale drawing of the 1946 panel that they would be willing to share? I'm looking for the entire panel, from door post to door post, not just the floating instrument cluster.

I'm in the process of making several changes to my panel, but my plane is in a different city than me at the moment. So, it would be nice to lay out different configurations/ideas on paper, or a computer screen, to see what works best before removing components or drilling holes...

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Re: Looking for Scale Drawing of 1946 Instrument Panel

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Chris -

Do you want the panel for rough laying out of options, or do you plan to cut aluminum from the drawing? I may have something close enough for the former, not sure the latter. I laid out a 70% new panel for my 120, let me see how hard it might be to extend to the corners.

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Av, at this point, I'm just looking for rough laying out of options.

I want to see what can fit where and have a way to convey a few different options to my mechanic. We won't start cutting metal without making A LOT of measurements on the actual panel when I'm back in the same town as my plane.
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You want rough? Here you go!
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If you have the floating inset panel, I made pretty close outline of the overlay panel. However, it's a .dxf and not sure how to post - it's greyed out when I try to attach it.
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Re: Looking for Scale Drawing of 1946 Instrument Panel

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edidin wrote: Mon Nov 07, 2022 3:02 pm However, it's a .dxf and not sure how to post
Can you "print" it to a pdf?
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Re: Looking for Scale Drawing of 1946 Instrument Panel

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6643 wrote: Mon Nov 07, 2022 6:16 pm
edidin wrote: Mon Nov 07, 2022 3:02 pm However, it's a .dxf and not sure how to post
Can you "print" it to a pdf?
Attached are some ROUGH measurements from a scaled photo. Might be good enough for a rough layout.
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Re: Looking for Scale Drawing of 1946 Instrument Panel

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Overall scaled outline of a 1947 C120 panel, believe no major changes from a 1946. Might be useful from a layout perspective. Was scaled from a photograph of the prototype panel lying on the hangar floor, so parallax has made things not quite right.
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Re: Looking for Scale Drawing of 1946 Instrument Panel

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Sorry for the late reply. Life happened...and I'm a pretty terrible procrastinator (actually, I'm quite good at it, which is really the issue...). Thanks for the information. It definitely helps.

Does anyone know if you can order original drawings from Cessan (Textron, I guess)...?

(By the way, my project hasn't budged an inch since my original post...)
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Re: Looking for Scale Drawing of 1946 Instrument Panel

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You can order drawings but they are expensive.
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