Sun Visor Replacement

Jon,
Last fall, we were shopping for plexiglass to build a cockpit
console and found both Lexan (polycarbonate) and plexiglass (acrylic,
polymethyl methacrylate) at HomeDepot. If it was not on the shell,
they may order it for you.
Aircraftspruce also sells Lexan
http://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/mepages/lexan.php

Jon Kraus wrote:
When I replaced the landing-light cover on our Mooney I was looking for
Lexan to use. All the home stores Lowes, Menards, Home Depot ect had
plexiglass and no Lexan.

Home Depot hear has lexan. I bought a small 4x6" piece even to replace
some glass around the house. They had larger. What they only have is
clear which is sort of silly for a sunvisor.

Black paint?

Jim


"Ron Natalie" wrote in message
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Home Depot hear has lexan. I bought a small 4x6" piece even to replace
some glass around the house. They had larger. What they only have is
clear which is sort of silly for a sunvisor.

john smith wrote:
Ron Natalie wrote:

I shut the canopy on one of mine and Margy did the other. Rosen wants
a lot of money for replacement blades. I'm thinking about running down
to the local plexiglass supplier and just getting stuff to fabricate
them myself. The arms are fine.


If you are going to do that, get LEXAN instead of Plexilass.

That might keep them from shattering when I slam the canopy on them,
but the acrylic will not scratch as badly.

Ron ...

You can send TAP Plastics the old one (or just a drawing if you like) and
they will fabricate a new one for about a quarter to a tenth of what you
would pay Rosen for a replacement. Not only that, but you can specify what
% light transmission you want if you want a darker or lighter shade.

www.tapplastics.com

Jim



"Ron Natalie" wrote in message
...
john smith wrote:
Ron Natalie wrote:

I shut the canopy on one of mine and Margy did the other. Rosen wants
a lot of money for replacement blades. I'm thinking about running down
to the local plexiglass supplier and just getting stuff to fabricate
them myself. The arms are fine.


If you are going to do that, get LEXAN instead of Plexilass.

That might keep them from shattering when I slam the canopy on them,
but the acrylic will not scratch as badly.

As I recall, a set of new blades was only around $30.00 at Oshkosh last
year.

Viperdoc wrote:
As I recall, a set of new blades was only around $30.00 at Oshkosh last
year.


Not from Rosen, they wanted almost as much for a single blade as I paid
for the visors originally.

I distinctly remember the two green plastic replacement visors for my Baron
selling for around $50.00 a pair directly from Rosen. Didn't go for it since
the ones I had were in good shape.

Viperdoc wrote:
I distinctly remember the two green plastic replacement visors for my Baron
selling for around $50.00 a pair directly from Rosen. Didn't go for it since
the ones I had were in good shape.


I'll have to check again. The ones in my plane were actually 310
visors (Rosen doesn't make Navion visors, but after discussing the
various mounting options, they were the closest).

wrote in message
oups.com...
I bought a set of Rosen sun visors for my Skyhawk about 6 years ago. I
hit some turbulence that slammed my head against the cockpit ceiling
and my headset smashed the visor. These were about $250 for the set.

Now I want to replace the broken one, and (of course) Sporty's will
ONLY sell the pair for another $250 . . . no way will they sell me just
the one I need.

I can't even find a Rosen site on the web (maybe my Google skills are
deficient).

http://www.rosenvisor.com/

Any ideas on where I can find JUST one sun visor (side loading for
Skyhawk)?

Try these guys: http://planeplastics.com/visors_rosen.asp


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Matt
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Matthew W. Barrow
Site-Fill Homes, LLC.
Montrose, CO