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rstone4(at)hot.rr.com
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Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 3:59 am Post subject: Cooling the cockpit

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      When I first got my  Zodiac601XL I had a real problem with heat in the cockpit and found that most of  it was coming from around the two steering rods where they go through the  firewall.  I don't understand why the designer made the slots so long  because the rods have very little up and down movement during use.  I glued  velcro on the firewall on each side of the rods and used leather cut as per the  drawing to close the holes.  I also bought two plastic vents from Aircraft  Spruce and installed them in the forward lower part of the canopy and this  solved my heat problem.

  

 Tracy Stone

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dredmoody(at)cox.net
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Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 6:29 am Post subject: Cooling the cockpit

I bought a couple of rubber shift stick boots out of J.C.Whitney online and will stuff them with fiberglass to act as fireproof insulation. I made a mounting frame for them out of 6061-T6 .025 which is rivetted to the firewall. I bit the bullet and bought sound and temperature insulation material from AS and installed that stuff behind the firewall and on the front side walls and cabin floor. Added about 3.5 pounds but I figured it was worth it..... we'll see when it flies.



Dred



---- robert stone <rstone4(at)hot.rr.com> wrote: 

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		   Members,

      When I first got my Zodiac601XL I had a real problem with heat in the cockpit and found that most of it was coming from around the two steering rods where they go through the firewall.  I don't understand why the designer made the slots so long because the rods have very little up and down movement during use.  I glued velcro on the firewall on each side of the rods and used leather cut as per the drawing to close the holes.  I also bought two plastic vents from Aircraft Spruce and installed them in the forward lower part of the canopy and this solved my heat problem.

 

 Tracy Stone

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purplemoon99(at)bellsouth
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Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 1:49 pm Post subject: Cooling the cockpit

How about some pict of the vents...   Joe  N101HD   601XL

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GLJSOJ1

Joined: 18 Aug 2007
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Location: Chesapeake, Virginia

Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 6:21 pm Post subject: Re: Cooling the cockpit

SOMETHING THAT I AM TRYING IS PUTTING A HEAT/COOL AIR VENT IN WITH THE HEATER, WHICH IS LOCATED NEAR THE FLOOR OF THE CABIN THIS WAY I CAN HAVE HEAT IN WINTER AND SWITCH IT TO COOL AIR WHEN HOT



GLENN

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