737 Ipeco seats replica

[ChrisKLAS]

I'm sooooooo in. Great work Ivar, thanks!

[ivar hestnes]

Lots of different materials will be used on the seats, including loads of aluminium.

[flyboy01]

Ivar,
Looks fantastic. And very promising on the seat rails as well. Would imagine you can put me down for a couple as well. Would these be available in kit form, possibly to save on volumetric space for shipping? as i imagine that they would be fairly bulky as a 1 piece unit. Costing a small fortune in shipping.
Trev

[rhysb]

Sweet as Ivar! Boeing Brown for me thanks!!

[choffmann]

Hi Ivar,

really looks very promising! I am looking forward to your J-rail solution. I have been working on them for a couple of weeks, but as of now, I ended up with wooden J-rails (Fig.1). The seats will slide on them because they have paired casters. I did not find a suitable solution for metal rails, because 1. bending strong enough metal rails in the correct way seems difficult, 2. I found no appropriate mechanism to have the casters roll on the rails from the side, like the original, because of the heavy load on them (Fig.2).

Chris

[vybhav]

Wow, those look really great. Keep us posted on how those finally look. Great Job.

Regards
Vybhava Srinivasan

[mauriceb]

Instead of creating a complicated J rail system, I though that this might be a reasonable compromise & could be adapted to any type of seat. Not as elegant as curved J rails but would be a lot easier to build I think.

Maurice

[ivar hestnes]

That is absolutely a nice way to do it Maurice. No doubt, and it should work fine.

But, I just have to do the J-rails. They are designed. But I am not going to reveal the design yet. I think you will like it when I publish pictures of the finished prototype

Hopefully this is something good to wait for. I have lots of plans for the seats and its components. But cant say too much yet. But can assure you that I am working very hard on this. First components for the protos is being machined today. And this will continue for a while.

[mauriceb]

But, I just have to do the J-rails. They are designed. But I am not going to reveal the design yet. I think you will like it when I publish pictures of the finished prototype

Hi Ivar,

I wasn't at all suggesting you should do it that way. I have no doubts you will come up with something much better than this . This was just a suggestion for anyone wanting to do it on their own but lacking the skills or means to design & build a J rail system.

But on that note, I'm sure you know there are different types of seats with different rail systems. Is your design going to be adaptable to various types of real airplane seats or will it be designed specifically for the seats you are working on?

Thanks,
Maurice

[ivar hestnes]

Dont you worry Maurice. I know very well what you ment. And I agree 100% with you. There are lots of possibilities to make rail/glider-systems.

Sorry, but I just cant release the complete plans for the seats yet. More news will follow later. But I have ideas that I think and hope lots of the builders will appreciate.