DROP-IN REPLACEMENT YAK 55 and 55/M BLANK INSTRUMENT PANEL
Having your Avionics shop install some updated equipment in your Yak 55?
These blank 6061 cockpit panels are supplied without mounting holes since 55 and 55/M have 4 and 6 vibration isolation points respectively.
Your Avionics shop can lay this blank panel flat to router / Waterjet cut your desired new instrument layout. Most shops will have all the various equipment outlines they need to design whatever you have in mind.
However, if you require panel design help, we offer this service at additional cost.
Please call us at 619 933-2571 if we can be of assistance.
The appropriate number of new panel securing sleeves, grommets and retaining clips will be supplied with your blank panel, since the old hardware was permanently swaged into the panel and cannot be reused.
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M4 Stainless Screws, Phillips Head, 120 degree countersink, Bag of 25
Doing a new panel for your Yak?
How about replacing those funky Russian instrument screws with Phillips heads?
An idea whose time has come !
These Russian panel screws have a 120 degree, (rather than the more familiar 100, 90 or 82) countersink, presumably to contact a greater area on the panel and resist backing out under vibration.
The Russian Tach takes an M4, but these shallow cross-slotted heads are to be found throughout the cockpit area.
In a lot of cases you'll see the slots in the head simply got smeared by the torquing tool, making them almost impossible to remove.
(Decoded: a Philips screwdriver was not the right tool to remove these particular Russian screws.)
But now it can be !
M3.5 Stainless Screws, Phillips Head, 120 degree countersink, Bag of 25
Doing a new panel for your Yak? How about replacing those funky Russian instrument screws with Phillips heads?
An idea whose time has come !
These Russian panel screws have a 120 degree, (rather than the more familiar 100, 90 or 82) countersink, presumably to contact a greater area on the panel and resist backing out under vibration.
Most Flight instruments in the Yak’s panel take M3.5 size (while the Russian Tach takes an M4), but both sizes, with these shallow cross-slotted heads, are to be found throughout the cockpit area.
In a lot of cases you'll see the slot simply got smeared by the torquing tool, making them almost impossible to remove.
(Decoded: a Philips screwdriver is not the right tool for these particular Russian screws.)
Wherever you see a gauge surrounded by one slotted head screw and three crossheads, leave the slotted one in place.
The Carb Inlet temp, Tri Gauge and the dual air pressure gauge are like this - they are packaged as cylindrical cans without a front mounting flange. Undo the slotted screw a few turns and, behind the panel, a wedge moving on that thread is releasing a cylindrical clamp ring, held in the panel by the other three screws.
Instruments like this slide out forward.