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MatAir (Europe)
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Looks right but you could check with Jimmy at Mid Atlantic Yankee Aviation since he is a better paint guy.

FYI

Roscoe

if not, could you recommend a suitable product to use, mostly need to re-prime the floor where carpet sliding around has polished it to bare aluminum.

might this be it?

Kevin

It was (sp) Kolar or Kholar primer.

Roscoe

better stated… all seats and sidewall panels removed

Great! Now you know how to work there in the future. While you have them out it is a great time to replace those old factory switches with new ones, get rid of the 10 AMP fuse for the cigar lighter from out of the wire bundle (mount on the panel if you can), and as I indicated I plan to do get rid of the old factory fuses and CBs with Klixon CBs.

Success! what i assumed to be through rivets were just the ones holding the plastic end cap on the vent box. previous maint didn’t do anything incorrect, once i used a plastic scraper to work through the silicone it came right out. found one of the attachment screws rolling around inside the air box

Ouch, that is going to make future panel work tough. At some point you might want to consider pulling them out and re-installing them properly. If the plastic is in bad shape check with Roscoe, he has some old ones that are still serviceable.
I plan to pull them out of my AA-1B next annual to replace the factory circuit breakers and fuses with…[Read more]

the red circles show the rivets, 3 each on top and bottom flange