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* [https://www.facebook.com/groups/vansrv10/posts/7927760794011617 FB Thread on interference with rear bulkhead 8/2024] | * [https://www.facebook.com/groups/vansrv10/posts/7927760794011617 FB Thread on interference with rear bulkhead 8/2024] | ||
* [https://www.facebook.com/groups/vansrv10/posts/9519719771482370 FB Thread] (same topic as above, riveting) | * [https://www.facebook.com/groups/vansrv10/posts/9519719771482370 FB Thread] (same topic as above, riveting) | ||
* If you attach the console to the cabin top prior to installing the cabin top, it is easier, but you'll also cover up a handful of the rivet holes at the aft top center of the cabin top. With careful alignment of the overhead console and some trimming of the aft flanges you can have enough room to get a pop rivet into every hole that is under the cabin top. | * [https://www.facebook.com/groups/vansrv10/posts/9815971658523845 FB Thread] on installation | ||
* If you attach the console to the cabin top prior to installing the cabin top, it is easier, but you'll also cover up a handful of the rivet holes at the aft top center of the cabin top. With careful alignment of the overhead console and some trimming of the aft flanges you can have enough room to get a pop rivet into every hole that is under the cabin top. | |||
* If you have a BRS parachute, don't install the overhead console early. You first need to install the cabin top, then the top skin, then the BRS gussets, then the overhead console. | |||
[[File:2025-03-18 16.54.47.jpg|thumb|Overhead console after being attached to cabin top with epoxy. Fiberglass over the flanges. The rear flanges are not particularly finished because they will be covered by headliner. The front has nutplates and a wiring hole for the overhead switch module.]] | [[File:2025-03-18 16.54.47.jpg|thumb|Overhead console after being attached to cabin top with epoxy. Fiberglass over the flanges. The rear flanges are not particularly finished because they will be covered by headliner. The front has nutplates and a wiring hole for the overhead switch module.]] | ||