Show us your panel

[RV6flyer]

By a search it appears that I failed to upload a picture of my panel. Hope this isn't a duplicate but here it is none-the-less:

Instrument panel and stick grips completed small.jpg

I tried for simple, light weight and cost effective.

Looks like your panel folds down. If so, how do you lock it up?

[RV6flyer]

Looks like your panel folds down. If so, how do you lock it up?

Thanks for the pictures and explanations. Another question. Since the panel is secured up from the back, how do you unbolt it and swing it down?

[Delta Whisky]

Three small screws release the glare shield. The two bolts going thru the rods go into nut plates and they are out in seconds. Then the three bolts thru the bottom of the panel are removed and the panel is free to tilt. Oh, I just remembered, you asked about the glove box - it is a unit from Van's. A long story of multiple brain farts. I shortened it a bit and now realize I didn't need to but am glad I did. (It is still plenty deep in its current configuration.) I used screws and nut plates so it can easily be removed from the panel but it doesn't need to be removable.
Glove box installed small.jpg

[RV6flyer]

Three small screws release the glare shield. The two bolts going thru the rods go into nut plates and they are out in seconds. Then the three bolts thru the bottom of the panel are removed and the panel is free to tilt. Oh, I just remembered, you asked about the glove box - it is a unit from Van's. A long story of multiple brain farts. I shortened it a bit and now realize I didn't need to but am glad I did. (It is still plenty deep in its current configuration.) I used screws and nut plates so it can easily be removed from the panel but it doesn't need to be removable.
Glove box installed small.jpg

I figured out why I thought the glare shield was not removable. Per my Kitfox 5 building instructions it is not removable. On the V it is screwed to the windshield, not just slid under bracks per the 7 instructions.

[Delta Whisky]

Opps (and, it is a big one), I forgot that mine is also tied via about 4 screws to the windshield. BUT with one of the few, if not the only, SS7 with a round cowl, I don't have a boot cowl and removing those screws is a non-issue. When I first looked at the drawings (not specific to my a/c) I thought that that would be an problem and why I started thinking about shortening the glove box - then I saw that it would be too short for my use and didn't shorten it as much but that meant I'd have to release it from the panel before tilting the panel. Hence the ugly screw heads around the glove box. But, the old adage says: "if you can't fix it, feature it." (The warning was "a long story of multiple brain farts". An example of what causes big additions to the total build time.)

[Flybyjim]

No smoke today, happy to see it all lights up and sees all the units that are attached to this point. Another fun day in the workshop.

[alexM]

I decided to turn hypothetical into reality a couple days ago.
Kitfox N527KF Instrument Panel Assembly Feb 22.jpg

PXL_20220220_161246433.jpg
Above will serve as a mock up so I can put it in the plane and verify I can live with the locations of everything.