AN3 shoulder harness nut plate location

[Bruce Fenstermacher]

Can someone with a '52 or later B model with the headliner removed measure from a known point like the end of the carry through spare to the center of the nut plate. I'll be installing these tomorrow (10/17/12) in my '49 and while I can just center it behind the front seats, I could just as easy install it the same place Cessna did on later models. In other words Cessna's centered and my centered might be two different places and I'll default to the Cessna location.

[mike roe]

Bruce
On my 52 they are 19'' apart center to center. Or 9 1/2'' each side of the center of the carry thru. If you have a wool headliner you might be able to feel them with these dimensions.
Mike

[Bruce Fenstermacher]

Thanks Mike that is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for the offer Arash.

[GAHorn]

Thanks Mike that is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for the offer Arash.

ARASH ! ARASH ???? Geez, Bruce! you gotta be workin' overtime on that project .... Either that or youv'e given up the strait-n-narrow and started drankin'! (Your spelin ain't nevir ben thet badd bifor!)

[Bruce Fenstermacher]

Thanks Mike that is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for the offer Arash.

ARASH ! ARASH ???? Geez, Bruce! you gotta be workin' overtime on that project .... Either that or youv'e given up the strait-n-narrow and started drankin'! (Your spelin ain't nevir ben thet badd bifor!)

Arash Aryana is how you spell Arash's name. What am I missing?

[Bruce Fenstermacher]

I don't like using last names when I know someone's first. I like to think of us all as friends and I can't think of a single friend of mine I call by their last name. There might be an exception when their last name becomes sort of their nick name.

To tell the truth every time I spell Arash's name I go look at the spelling I look up others as well). I hate spelling names incorrectly. And in my mind and perhaps in conversation with others since I've never talked with Arash, I've said his first and I'm sure, last name incorrectly. And Arash you are correct I was thinking A-rash. I will try to relearn it the correct way.

Miss pronunciation and spelling of one's name as you can imagine is something I've lived with all my life. Fenstermacher is correctly spelled about 5 ways and pronounced several as well. But I've heard and seen it a thousand ways. I've even been given special consideration by my TAC Officer while in Warrant Officer Entry Course. He couldn't say my name and didn't want to spell it so I was allowed to mark my belongings with Fenster so long as I agreed to respond when addressed by it. Saved me a few hours in stenciling so it was OK by me.

[GAHorn]

Yep. I never looked at Arash's registration profile for introductions....I took it for what it appeared and was simply ribbing Bruce in good jest for what I thought was hasty-typing. I'm glad to see myself corrected. (Especially so since in the back of my mind I seem to recall someone with a presumed first-name of Aryana marrying a pretty lady in the near future....but, Hey! ...Aryana is in California, right?)

Anyway...the LAUGH IS ON ME!

When I was preparing to host the Galveston convention in 2007, I travelled to the railroad museum and inquired about a group-tour and the hours they'd crank up their locomotive for a demonstration drive, and I paid in-advance for a certain number of presumed attendees. When the cute young thing took the money, she closed the cash drawer and looked back at me with a smile as if to say, "Well, that's that."
I asked if she didn't intend to provide me with some tickets, or some passes, or some other means of indentifying our group from the general public (who would not be included in a pre-paid entrance fee) and she said, "No, ...just have them tell us they're with your group."
Thinking particularly of Bruce and his interest in railroading, knowing he'd want a ride in the locomotive cab, I said to her, "Well, I just didn't want someone to come up to you and say, "Hi. I'm Bruce Fenstermacher and I'd like to ride the locomotove."..... and you not allow it because you didn't realize he was one of our group."

Her reaction was to collapse into a chair with disabling laughter, which I thought really silly response to a serious portayal of an upcoming possibility.

I said to her, "Why is that so funny?"

With the most innocent, wide-eyed college-girl look she replied, "It's so funny that on the spur of the moment you can make up a name like that!"

[n3833v]

What a whistling, bell banging laugh.

John

[Bruce Fenstermacher]

For the guy with a 170A or '48. The nut plates are 12" measured from the inside cabin wall in front of the spar. That puts them 9 1/2" from center and 19" apart as reported by Mike Roe.