Structural

I’ve personally engineered, fabricated and installed numerous sheet metal components, and have a keen understanding of dimensioning and view layouts that prevent misinterpreting the drawing’s intent or having to do extra math.


Structural Drawings

 
  • Drawings for the mounting of electrical equipment onto existing shelves, structures or interior components.

  • Drawings for new instrument panel layouts.

  • Drawings for mounting adapters (see Custom Parts below) that would enable new equipment to be installed in existing locations with different mounting footprints.

  • For certified aircraft (not experimental), the drawing contains general notes, project-specific notes, flag (delta) notes and a parts list.

  • NOTE: I cannot provide drawings that alter pressure vessels, wing spars, engine pylons, primary structures, or anything that would require a damage tolerance analysis or structural substantiation report. If needed, I could put you in touch with an engineer with these capabilities.


Custom Parts

 
  • If you are short on sheet metal manpower, sheet metal parts and assemblies found in structural drawings can be fabricated by a 3rd party vendor, with paint and nutplates already installed, as needed.

  • If you have a new component that needs to be installed in an existing location that already has mounting provisions, but the holes don’t line up, it can sometimes be easier to adapt the old location to the new component using a custom milled adapter. In this case all of the complexity of the modification can be focused in the adapter, saving enough in labor hours to justify the cost of the part.