Don Muncy Visor

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Ordered a set of visors from @DonMuncy My '66E had the center mount visor. Mr. Muncy fabricates a fully articulating visor with nicely sized hardware and smooth joints at a very fair price. I fabricated a very crude bracket for each side and used existing Mooney hardware to install to avoid any alteration to the plane. Hopefully my bracket will hold up over time. If not, I have no problem having paid Mr. Muncy a modest sum for his hand-made engineering. 

My Wemac baffles above are courtesy of @Utah20Gflyer's design. I built a vacuum forming machine and formed them from 1/16 ABS. 

Also copied @piperpainter's backseat mod w/ a slight twist. 

I guess it's time for me to confess that I've been lurking on this forum for a long time saving and compiling information. I have definitely taken more than I've given. I try to database any information that I might need in the future to repair or obtain equivalent parts to keep this plane in the air. And I can't quit buying up everything that comes available that I think I might need in the future. Why am i buying Brittain stuff from Bonanza guys? And why did I buy that lot of various early Mooney inspection panels?   I save instruction articles such as @Shadrach's thorough course on hydraulic flap maintenance/overhaul or @carusoam's bullet points and I've saved just about everything @M20Doc has said. I do try to buy from the folks here. I ordered @donkaye's landing video. I have @takair's electric step conversion sitting in my hangar waiting to install. Picked up a battery charger from @OSUAV8TER shortly after I bought the plane. 

Anyway, I'm thankful for the folks on this forum and your willingness to share your years of experience and expertise.  I fly out of a rural airport in the middle of nowhere in SW Louisiana. Without the information here, I will quickly run into something that will ground me. 

-David

[DonMuncy]

Great job David. This is a wonderful idea for all the early model owners. But I have a few questions. What thickness is the plate you adapted? Are the mounting plates for each visor pretty much mirror images of each other? What did you use for the "collar" (for lack of a better term) that the visor stud screws into? It appears that the mounting screw on the left side of the next to last picture is an existing screw. How about the one on the right side? Did you have to drill a hole for it? Is that an existing tab on the tube it is screwed into? Did you have to drill a hole in the tube for the visor stud to protrude into, or is collar the only support. I assume you had to do some trial and error to get the angles and off-sets for the plate. I don't suppose you could document those angles and off-sets, if someone else wanted to duplicate your effort? How long did it take you to remove and replace the plastic panel that covers the mount? How long do you estimate it would take someone to duplicate these, now that you have done the hard work? 

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My bracket is a simple galvanized angle corner brace for general construction. I shaped the left side in a bench vise to hug the 1" airframe tubing. The left-side bracket uses an existing sheet metal screw for one attach point.See this different picture where I zoomed in and you can see the sheet metal screw in place. I didn't drill any holes in the airplane. The other attach point is an existing length of screw from one of the windshield brackets. I left the original locknut in place and placed my bracket overit. My picture shows a nylon locknut, but I had to change that to a lock washer and a lower profile nut as the remaining threads weren't long enough to grab the nylon.  The threaded insert is a rivet nut (upside down) centered over the airframe tubing and on the axis between the two attach points.  The right side bracket also uses a windshield bracket screw. The aft side of the bracket uses the existing threaded insert for the grab handle. I replaced the screw with one 1/4" longer from my hoarding collection. The right side bracket angles across the tubing. I started by straightening the angle, holding it in place and scribing the tubing edges with a sharpie. Then I bent the metal with a hand metal seamer.  I started with the right bracket and eyeballed the rivnut aligned with the corner of the windshield. Then I worked on the left bracket to align with the left corner. I didn't measure anything, just aligned myself in the cabin and eyeballed it. Removing the plastics is not difficult and probably only takes me 5 minutes or less. The upper windshield trim has 6 screws.  I removed the right forward door trim which has maybe 5 screws. I also removed the forward most screws from the headliner and left window trim to lift those pieces away from what I was removing.  My total time invested in this was maybe 3-4 hours. The right side bracket was the most arduous. But I brought my hand tools in the cabin and worked from the front seat. I've flown maybe 2 hours since installing and have not had a problem. The right visor does cover the grab handle, but neither my wife or I use the handle for ingress/egress. I do have some friends who will need to use the handle to get in and out of the plane. Those same friends will be using up all of my useful load. ,So I'll anticipate and move the visor before one of their big giant paws breaks my new, fully-articulating visor. 

Next: I need to instlall Lemo plugs for all 4 places.

 

-David

[Tmack201]

Installed Sun visors from Don Muncy. What an upgrade! I’ve included post installation pics, plus one with OEM visor on top of Don’s. So much more coverage (2x)!