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dougwitkowski(at)netscape
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Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 4:25 pm Post subject: lowered seat??

I have a person interested in my plane.  He is tall in the torso and needs to increase the head room.  I remember that some cut the seat board differently and gained some head room.  Can anyone tell me how much improvement can be gained?  He needs about 2".  

    

   Thanks for your help!

    

   DW

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kdpalmer(at)mweb.co.za
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Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 4:46 pm Post subject: lowered seat??

Premould a bottom pan like they do in race cars &  expensive sports cars seats, then cut out the flat bottom of the seat and mould  in a basin effect bottom giving him the 2" don't forget the padding  thickness.

  

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gregsmi

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Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 7:05 pm Post subject: lowered seat??

Doug, as I recall, the seat lowering thing did give two inches. I do not  have the instructions but from memory, the seat bottom which normally connects  to the seat back where both meet the floor is shorten so that the seat bottom  hits the floor several inches in front of the seat back. Perhaps others that  have done the process can better describe what is done. 

  

 Greg

  

  In a message dated 8/5/2012 7:25:53 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  dougwitkowski(at)netscape.net writes:

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		     I have a person interested in    my plane.  He is tall in the torso and needs to increase the head    room.  I remember that some cut the seat board differently and gained    some head room.  Can anyone tell me how much improvement can be    gained?  He needs about 2".  

    

   Thanks for your help!

    

   DW

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kulpa(at)att.net
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Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 7:16 pm Post subject: lowered seat??

Doug,



I built mine with the extra headroom and Greg is correct, the seat bottoms are on the bottom of the fuselage about 2-3 inches from the seat back. I' m close enough that you can come see what I did.



Bill

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On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 10:04 PM CDT GREGSMI(at)aol.com wrote:



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		  Doug, as I recall, the seat lowering thing did give two inches. I do not  

have the instructions but from memory, the seat bottom which normally 

connects  to the seat back where both meet the floor is shorten so that the seat 

bottom  hits the floor several inches in front of the seat back. Perhaps 

others that  have done the process can better describe what is done. 

 

Greg

 

 

In a message dated 8/5/2012 7:25:53 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  

dougwitkowski(at)netscape.net writes:



I have a person interested in  my plane.  He is tall in the torso and needs 

to increase the head  room.  I remember that some cut the seat board 

differently and gained  some head room.  Can anyone tell me how much improvement 

can be  gained?  He needs about 2".  

 

Thanks for your help!

 

DW



 

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otto(at)otamat.com
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Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 11:58 pm Post subject: lowered seat??

I am 6ft 2" tall and I have         done the following mod. to fit in. I have cut the original back         rest and shaped it in "S" form to follow the spine curve and         used for the seat cushion 1" thick Confor foam medium blue. I find it very comfortable         without taking too much of the headroom.

         On the picture the red dotted line represents the original         shape. The black stripes are velcro stuck on with cyanoacrylate         glue to keep cushions in place.

         

         otto 

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            On 06/08/2012 01:24,       dougwitkowski(at)netscape.net (dougwitkowski(at)netscape.net) wrote:

     

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		           I have a person             interested in my plane.  He is tall in the torso and needs             to increase the head room.  I remember that some cut the             seat board differently and gained some head room.  Can             anyone tell me how much improvement can be gained?  He needs             about 2".  

          

         Thanks for your help!

          

         DW

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bernard.wilder2(at)gmail.
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Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 2:55 am Post subject: lowered seat??

Doug,

This is more of a structural change, but you would gain some  head room by moving the top of the seat back thereby increasing the angle at which one is reclining .

 

 Beernie Wilder

 



 

On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 3:57 AM, otto souta <otto(at)otamat.com (otto(at)otamat.com)> wrote:

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		                      I am 6ft 2" tall and I have         done the following mod. to fit in. I have cut the original back         rest and shaped it in "S" form to follow the spine curve and         used for the seat cushion 1" thick Confor foam medium blue. I find it very comfortable         without taking too much of the headroom.

         On the picture the red dotted line represents the original         shape. The black stripes are velcro stuck on with cyanoacrylate         glue to keep cushions in place.

         

         otto 

         Pulsar III 

         Rotax 914

         

       [img]cid:part1.07020006.06090300(at)otamat.com[/img]

      

         

         

            On 06/08/2012 01:24,       dougwitkowski(at)netscape.net (dougwitkowski(at)netscape.net) wrote:

     

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		           I have a person             interested in my plane.  He is tall in the torso and needs             to increase the head room.  I remember that some cut the             seat board differently and gained some head room.  Can             anyone tell me how much improvement can be gained?  He needs             about 2".  

          

         Thanks for your help!

          

         DW

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