---------------------------------------------------------- Zenith601-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Sun 07/11/10: 12 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 10:46 AM - Seats for my 601XL B (AZFlyer) 2. 10:58 AM - Re: Seats for my 601XL B (jaybannist@cs.com) 3. 12:06 PM - Re: Seats for my 601XL B (Jim Belcher) 4. 12:57 PM - Re: Seats for my 601XL B (jaybannist@cs.com) 5. 01:11 PM - Re: Returned Mail: Re: Seats for my 601XL B (jaybannist@cs.com) 6. 01:24 PM - Re: Re: Returned Mail: Re: Seats for my 601XL B (Craig Payne) 7. 01:37 PM - Re: Re: Returned Mail: Re: Seats for my 601XL B (LHusky@aol.com) 8. 01:41 PM - Re: Seats for my 601XL B (Karl Polifka) 9. 01:46 PM - Re: Re: Returned Mail: Re: Seats for my 601XL B (jaybannist@cs.com) 10. 01:54 PM - seats (Karl Polifka) 11. 03:12 PM - Re: seats (LHusky@aol.com) 12. 04:31 PM - Re: seats (jaybannist@cs.com) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 10:46:33 AM PST US Subject: Zenith601-List: Seats for my 601XL B From: "AZFlyer" List, Does anybody know of other suppliers of seats (finished) for 601XL? I know FlightCrafters in FL. Any others? Thanks, Mike Upgrade finished...yuck! -------- Mike Miller @ millrml@aol.com 601 XL, 3300, Dynon Remember, "the second mouse gets the cheese"! Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=304477#304477 ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 10:58:44 AM PST US Subject: Re: Zenith601-List: Seats for my 601XL B From: jaybannist@cs.com Yes. You. You can make your own. It's just not that hard. It is simply another part of building your own airplane. Let me know if you want more information. Jay Bannister List, Does anybody know of other suppliers of seats (finished) for 601XL? I know FlightCrafters in FL. Any others? Thanks, Mike ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 12:06:23 PM PST US From: Jim Belcher Subject: Re: Zenith601-List: Seats for my 601XL B On Sunday 11 July 2010 12:57:38 you wrote: > Yes. You. You can make your own. It's just not that hard. It is simply > another part of building your own airplane. Let me know if you want more > information. > > Jay Bannister Actually, Jay, I'm also at about that point. I've seen how a couple of others did it, and there was a fair discussion in Kitplanes a couples of months back. But I'd like to see whatever you have in mind. Lots of choices means we're better informed! -- ======================================= Jim B. Belcher BS,MS Physics A&P/IA General Radio Telephone Certificate Instrument Rated Pilot Retired Aerospace Technical Manager Semi-proficient Househusband ======================================= ________________________________ Message 4 _____________________________________ Time: 12:57:00 PM PST US Subject: Re: Zenith601-List: Seats for my 601XL B From: jaybannist@cs.com Jim, Here a few photos of how I did it. Mine are certainly not "Ferrari" class , but they are comfortable and not obnoxious. A lot of folks get the base and foam done, then take them to an upholstery shop. I got seat covers at Pep Boys and made do. The foam came from Wicks, I think. The plywood base for the back was flat. The plywood base for the bottom was kerfed for bending and pressed into the seat pan. The wheels kept them pressed in tight while the epoxy coating set up to hold the shape. Let me know if you have questions. Jay ________________________________ Message 5 _____________________________________ Time: 01:11:04 PM PST US Subject: Zenith601-List: Re: Returned Mail: Re: Seats for my 601XL B From: jaybannist@cs.com Hmmm. All my photos had a .jpg extension, which is about as "valid" as yo u can get, So I don't know what the problem was. Jim, I will send them directly to you, OK? Jay -----Original Message----- From: zenith601-list@matronics.com Sent: Sun, Jul 11, 2010 3:00 pm Subject: Returned Mail: Re: Seats for my 601XL B The following message from jaybannist@cs.com was not authorized for entry in the Matronics Email Lists forum. Reason: There were problems with the attachments [Attachment must have a valid extension to be saved to a forum.] Visit this URL to register: http://forums.matronics.com//index.php From: jaybannist@cs.com Subject: Re: Seats for my 601XL B **************************************** Jim, Here a few photos of how I did it. Mine are certainly not "Ferrari" class , but they are comfortable and not obnoxious. A lot of folks get the base and foam done, then take them to an upholstery shop. I got seat covers at Pep Boys and made do. The foam came from Wicks, I think. The plywood base for the back was flat. The plywood base for the bottom was kerfed for bending and pressed into the seat pan. The wheels kept them pressed in tight while the epoxy coati ng set up to hold the shape. Let me know if you have questions. Jay ________________________________ Message 6 _____________________________________ Time: 01:24:02 PM PST US From: "Craig Payne" Subject: RE: Zenith601-List: Re: Returned Mail: Re: Seats for my 601XL B I get individual e-mails and received 8 photos. I thought the tires went on the outside of the plane. :-) -- Craig _____ From: owner-zenith601-list-server@matronics.com [mailto:owner-zenith601-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of jaybannist@cs.com Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2010 1:10 PM Subject: Zenith601-List: Re: Returned Mail: Re: Seats for my 601XL B Hmmm. All my photos had a .jpg extension, which is about as "valid" as you can get, So I don't know what the problem was. Jim, I will send them directly to you, OK? Jay -----Original Message----- From: zenith601-list@matronics.com Sent: Sun, Jul 11, 2010 3:00 pm Subject: Returned Mail: Re: Seats for my 601XL B The following message from jaybannist@cs.com was not authorized for entry in the Matronics Email Lists forum. Reason: There were problems with the attachments [Attachment must have a valid extension to be saved to a forum.] Visit this URL to register: http://forums.matronics.com//index.php From: jaybannist@cs.com Subject: Re: Seats for my 601XL B **************************************** Jim, Here a few photos of how I did it. Mine are certainly not "Ferrari" class, but they are comfortable and not obnoxious. A lot of folks get the base and foam done, then take them to an upholstery shop. I got seat covers at Pep Boys and made do. The foam came from Wicks, I think. The plywood base for the back was flat. The plywood base for the bottom was kerfed for bending and pressed into the seat pan. The wheels kept them pressed in tight while the epoxy coating set up to hold the shape. Let me know if you have questions. Jay ________________________________ Message 7 _____________________________________ Time: 01:37:34 PM PST US From: LHusky@aol.com Subject: Re: Zenith601-List: Re: Returned Mail: Re: Seats for my 601XL B I had no problem with them. Thanks Jay Larry Husky Madras, Oregon In a message dated 7/11/2010 1:12:40 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, jaybannist@cs.com writes: Hmmm. All my photos had a .jpg extension, which is about as "valid" as you can get, So I don't know what the problem was. Jim, I will send them directly to you, OK? Jay -----Original Message----- From: zenith601-list@matronics.com Sent: Sun, Jul 11, 2010 3:00 pm Subject: Returned Mail: Re: Seats for my 601XL B The following message from _jaybannist@cs.com_ (mailto:jaybannist@cs.com) was not authorized for entry in the Matronics Email Lists forum. Reason: There were problems with the attachments [Attachment must have a valid extension to be saved to a forum.] Visit this URL to register: _http://forums.matronics.com//index.php_ (http://forums.matronics.com//index.php) From: _jaybannist@cs.com_ (mailto:jaybannist@cs.com) To: _zenith601-list@matronics.com_ (mailto:zenith601-list@matronics.com) Subject: Re: Seats for my 601XL B **************************************** Jim, Here a few photos of how I did it. Mine are certainly not "Ferrari" class, but they are comfortable and not obnoxious. A lot of folks get the base and foam done, then take them to an upholstery shop. I got seat covers at Pep Boys and made do. The foam came from Wicks, I think. The plywood base for the back was flat. The plywood base for the bottom was kerfed for bending and pressed into the seat pan. The wheels kept them pressed in tight while the epoxy coating set up to hold the shape. Let me know if you have questions. Jay (http://www.matronics.com/Navigator?Zenith601-List) (http://www.matronics.com/contribution) ________________________________ Message 8 _____________________________________ Time: 01:41:20 PM PST US From: "Karl Polifka" Subject: Re: Zenith601-List: Seats for my 601XL B Second time around for seats for us. I had separate backs and seats made by a local auto upholstery shop. No plywood or anything else. Works fine. Cost was about $300. I made the side panels myself -- about $60 for material. Will send pix if you like. Karl From: jaybannist@cs.com Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2010 3:54 PM Subject: Re: Zenith601-List: Seats for my 601XL B Jim, Here a few photos of how I did it. Mine are certainly not "Ferrari" class, but they are comfortable and not obnoxious. A lot of folks get the base and foam done, then take them to an upholstery shop. I got seat covers at Pep Boys and made do. The foam came from Wicks, I think. The plywood base for the back was flat. The plywood base for the bottom was kerfed for bending and pressed into the seat pan. The wheels kept them pressed in tight while the epoxy coating set up to hold the shape. Let me know if you have questions. Jay ________________________________ Message 9 _____________________________________ Time: 01:46:52 PM PST US Subject: Re: Zenith601-List: Re: Returned Mail: Re: Seats for my 601XL B From: jaybannist@cs.com Only if you are incurably "conventional". (;>) They were handy, the right shape and weight. So there !!! Jay Do not archive -----Original Message----- From: Craig Payne Sent: Sun, Jul 11, 2010 3:22 pm Subject: RE: Zenith601-List: Re: Returned Mail: Re: Seats for my 601XL B I get individual e-mails and received 8 photos. I thought the tires went on the outside of the plane. :-) -- Craig ________________________________ Message 10 ____________________________________ Time: 01:54:39 PM PST US From: "Karl Polifka" Subject: Zenith601-List: seats Let me try this again. This being a second go at seats, we had a local auto upholstery shop make separate backs and seats. No plywood or anything else. Have only had the bird back in the air for a month but all seems to work well. I made the side panels myself -- not hard -- about $60 for material. Attached with velcro, as someone suggested and it works fine on one side. Other side needs some fine tuning. I'll send pictures tomorrow if anyone wants them. Karl ________________________________ Message 11 ____________________________________ Time: 03:12:00 PM PST US From: LHusky@aol.com Subject: Re: Zenith601-List: seats I would like to see those pictures of your panels. I am trying to get idea's in both of these area's. I want the panels to be secure, but also easily removed for annuals. Larry Husky Madras, Oregon In a message dated 7/11/2010 1:56:18 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, jfowler120@verizon.net writes: Let me try this again. This being a second go at seats, we had a local auto upholstery shop make separate backs and seats. No plywood or anything else. Have only had the bird back in the air for a month but all seems to work well. I made the side panels myself -- not hard -- about $60 for material. Attached with velcro, as someone suggested and it works fine on one side. Other side needs some fine tuning. I'll send pictures tomorrow if anyone wants them. Karl (http://www.matronics.com/Navigator?Zenith601-List) (http://www.matronics.com/contribution) ________________________________ Message 12 ____________________________________ Time: 04:31:46 PM PST US Subject: Re: Zenith601-List: seats From: jaybannist@cs.com Larry, I'm not the one you asked, but here are a couple of photos of my side wall panels. The forward panels are fastened to the skin with the upholstery level with the tops of the angles. I put vertical strips of Velcro on th e skins and horizontal strips on the panels. That way, there is no blind alignment required. The panels beside the seats are mounted on top of th e vertical angles. I riveted small angles to the structural angles and ap plied Velcro to those, again vertical with horizontal strips on the panels . All the panels were made of a plastic corrugated board as a base, with 1/4" foam and fabric applied, all from Airtex Products, Inc. Jay Bannister -----Original Message----- From: LHusky@aol.com Sent: Sun, Jul 11, 2010 5:10 pm Subject: Re: Zenith601-List: seats I would like to see those pictures of your panels. I am trying to get ide a's in both of these area's. I want the panels to be secure, but also eas ily removed for annuals. Larry Husky Madras, Oregon In a message dated 7/11/2010 1:56:18 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, jfowler12 0@verizon.net writes: Let me try this again. This being a second go at seats, we had a local auto upholstery shop mak e separate backs and seats. No plywood or anything else. Have only had the bird back in the air for a month but all seems to work well. I mad e the side panels myself -- not hard -- about $60 for material. Attache d with velcro, as someone suggested and it works fine on one side. Othe r side needs some fine tuning. I'll send pictures tomorrow if anyone wa nts them. 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