Hi all. I hope you're all well and coping OK.
I'm getting close to fitting the seatbacks in my PocketShip, but I want to test-install the hardware fittings in the seatback lockers which will hold the stanchions for the boom gallows before I close up the seatbacks for good. A test fit, to be sure I can make the final installation via the lockers when the seatbacks are all closed up.
My conclusion is that there is very little room in the lockers to secure the stanchion support fittings to the cockpit deck to allow the stanchion to project vertically out through the seatback deck as required by the plans to carry the boom gallows.
In fact, it's impossible! The lockers are too narrow at the level of the cockpit deck to allow this - I'm thinking that some sort of table or flange may be required to raise the fitting high enough to get a truly perpendicular, vertical exit through the seatback deck.
How have other builders tackled this problem, please?
Thank you!