Interior Liners for Cockpits? Who's Built the Best

[jongas]

JK, Just saw that you have already posted on another thread - great minds on the expansion foam

keep us posted

[mattford1]

Hi. Been in touch with Peter and he feels that his won't fit in the real cockpit.

[mattford1]

Hi Jon-
The real ones are made out of a material called Kydex, which is flame retardent and fairly expensive. They are vacu-formed.

[blueskydriver]

Okay Folks,

I'm going to give it shot and I'll post photos as I go. It might take a bit to get started, but this is something that is really needed... I'll keep everyone informed.

[ChrisKLAS]

The new FDS liner product looks fantastic. I have already placed my preorder!

[jongas]

The new FDS liner product looks fantastic. I have already placed my preorder!

If you don't mind me asking, how much do they charge chris?

Regards

Jon

[ChrisKLAS]

If you don't mind me asking, how much do they charge chris?

Jon,

I don't believe FDS has announced pricing on this product yet. They offered a kind of super secret "order it before it's announced"-type deal for those of us who purchased their nose sectional, but I don't believe I should post that price. I would contact Peter at FDS to see what he has to say about pricing.

[blueskydriver]

Regarding the Eyebrows, I got my wife too help me and this is what came of it. We made a DIY Vacuum Forming box to test the idea first, and then the plan is to make a bigger Vac Former and make formed copies of my Eyebrow Moldings.

See the attached photos to see what we did... You'll notice that we used wooden, plastic and cloth objects to make molds of. So, the chance of messing up the eyebrows are remote. We found that the key is the right amount of time under the stoves top electric wire (broiler setting) and the right amount of vac pressure.

Finally, we think that we could make a larger DIY box roughly 24inchesx24inches. This should be big enough for the eyebrows and enough vac pressure too draw the plastic down 6 inches. We'll keep you informed and the next step would be the back filling material.

I checked on expansion foam and was told that the door and window type is best because it only expands a little, as opposed to Max Expansion Foam, which expands a great deal...

[jongas]

great work -keep us posted - cant wait to see the eyebrows!!

[mpl330]

This is looking promising - put me down for a pair if you "go into production"

Cheers
Mike