Pietenpol-List: planning your panel layout
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2002 2:40 pm
Original Posted By: "Oscar Zuniga"
With as large a panel as the Pietenpol has, and as complicated as the typical Pietenpol panel is, I'm surprised that no one has taken the time to play with the panel planner at http://www.epanelbuilder.com/ . You go down the page to "Click here to start building your panel", then on the next page you pull down the prototype to start building by dragging and dropping things onto the panel. But no one's yet started a Piet panel. Actually, the Loehle 5151 is probably pretty close (22" wide, 12" tall), as are the Skybolt and Pitts. Maybe I'll send them a CAD outline of a typical Piet panel... (or maybe DJ already has one?)Of course I'm joking about the complexity of the typical Piet panel, but most folks do try a little dreaming about how to fit everything they'd like to have on the panel. In our case (Piet), we have the added factor of having to miss those crossed cables behind the panel, but it's still easier to do on paper than in metal or wood...Oscar ZunigaSan Antonio, TXmailto: taildrags(at)hotmail.comwebsite at http://www.flysquirrel.netThe new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 3 months FREE*. http://www.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/getm ... __________
With as large a panel as the Pietenpol has, and as complicated as the typical Pietenpol panel is, I'm surprised that no one has taken the time to play with the panel planner at http://www.epanelbuilder.com/ . You go down the page to "Click here to start building your panel", then on the next page you pull down the prototype to start building by dragging and dropping things onto the panel. But no one's yet started a Piet panel. Actually, the Loehle 5151 is probably pretty close (22" wide, 12" tall), as are the Skybolt and Pitts. Maybe I'll send them a CAD outline of a typical Piet panel... (or maybe DJ already has one?)Of course I'm joking about the complexity of the typical Piet panel, but most folks do try a little dreaming about how to fit everything they'd like to have on the panel. In our case (Piet), we have the added factor of having to miss those crossed cables behind the panel, but it's still easier to do on paper than in metal or wood...Oscar ZunigaSan Antonio, TXmailto: taildrags(at)hotmail.comwebsite at http://www.flysquirrel.netThe new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 3 months FREE*. http://www.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/getm ... __________