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naumuk(at)windstream.net
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 Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 6:36 am Post subject: Seat pan |
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The HDS plans call for a height of 10-30mm from the floor to the seat pan to allow for differing amounts of headroom. I'm the industry average 5' 10". What height would work best?
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Bill Naumuk
Townville, Pa.
HDS 601MG/Corvair 95%
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leo.gates
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| Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 7:09 am Post subject: Seat pan |
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10mm - Don't forget you may have a passenger!
Bill Naumuk wrote:
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The HDS plans call for a height of 10-30mm from the floor to the
seat pan to allow for differing amounts of headroom. I'm the industry
average 5' 10". What height would work best?
do not archive
Bill Naumuk
Townville, Pa.
HDS 601MG/Corvair 95%
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carlossa52(at)gmail.com
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| Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 7:22 am Post subject: Seat pan |
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Bill, don't forget you call always add cushions - but it will be though to lower the seat pan once riveted. CheersCarlos
2009/4/12 Bill Naumuk <naumuk(at)windstream.net (naumuk(at)windstream.net)>
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The HDS plans call for a height of 10-30mm from the floor to the seat pan to allow for differing amounts of headroom. I'm the industry average 5' 10". What height would work best?
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Bill Naumuk
Townville, Pa.
HDS 601MG/Corvair 95%
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hills(at)sunflower.com
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| Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 11:23 am Post subject: Seat pan |
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Ya, higher is better because you will be wearing a head set.
If you need to sell it one day, you can offer it to taller folks to boot.
Roger
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The HDS plans call for a height of 10-30mm from the floor to the seat pan to allow for differing amounts of headroom. I'm the industry average 5' 10". What height would work best?
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Bill Naumuk
Townville, Pa.
HDS 601MG/Corvair 95%
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larry(at)macsmachine.com
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| Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 11:29 am Post subject: Seat pan |
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Hi Bill,
I'm 6'-1" and my pan is 10mm off the belly. I added approximately 2"
foam measured while setting on it with a steel rod across the foam so it
could be accurately
measured as crush deflected. So I'm off the seat pan that far and find
the height is nearly perfect for my 197 lb weight. The view over the
nose can be easily seen
if you're at a best max height, so don't let yourself set too deep in
the pan, so to speak.
see link,
www.macsmachine.com/html/seatupholstery.htm
Larry McFarland 601HDS at www.macsmachiine.com
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The HDS plans call for a height of 10-30mm from the floor to the
seat pan to allow for differing amounts of headroom. I'm the industry
average 5' 10". What height would work best?
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Townville, Pa.
HDS 601MG/Corvair 95%
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naumuk(at)windstream.net
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| Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 2:39 pm Post subject: Seat pan |
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Larry-
30mm doesn't seem like a whole lot of range. I'll probably split the
difference at 20mm.
Bill
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pchap(at)primus.ca
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| Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 6:47 pm Post subject: Seat pan |
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At 10:32 12-04-09, you wrote:
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I'm 6'1" and went for the 10 mm on both sides. Then for whichever seat pan where someone shorter is sitting, I made an up to 2" (?) thick filler piece sculpted to the curve of the pan, made out of hard insulation board foam. It's light weight and won't compress, unlike if one just stuffs cushions in or puts in extra layers of heavy Confor foam. The upholstered seat pan foam then can either sit down in the pan or on top of the filler piece.
My dad and I also bought Peltor headsets, which don't have thick cushions on top or big adjustment slides sticking up above the ear cups. That's handy for extra head room, especially if one leans outboard, head against the canopy, to get a better view past the nose, such as when the nose is high in the flare.
Peter Chapman
Toronto, ON 601 HDS / 912 / C-GZDC [quote][b]
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davgray(at)sbcglobal.net
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| Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 1:47 am Post subject: Seat pan |
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You could install the rear of the seat pan on a hinge and have an adjustable seat height with two or three mating hinge halves mounted on the rear seat support.
I have seen it done this way somewhere but I had already
done mine and have not tried it myself yet.
Inserting the hinge pin may be easier if it is done thru an access hole in the center console from the other passenger bay since the console is in the way to insert a long straight hinge pin.
Gary Ray
601XL, WW Corvair 0.060 over
davgray(at)sbcglobal.net (davgray(at)sbcglobal.net)
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grs-pms(at)comcast.net
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| Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 10:05 am Post subject: Seat pan |
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The Ercoupe seat pan was attached with a hinge. It is good to have access to the area under the pan. Sooner or later, small objects will slip thru the gaps on the side of the pan. Dirt accumulates under there, too. Ercoupe experience speaking.
It would be best to use an extruded hinge, since downward crash loads might fail the rolled tangs on the hinge that Zenith supplies.
George
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