Creative and Cheap instrument pod for gyros

GyroRon

Former Gyro know it all
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Was looking through the newest issue of Rotorcraft magazine and saw a article on a gyrobee type gyroa fellow named Dan Grochowski made. I took a close look at the pictures of his gyro and finally figured out what he used to make the neat looking pod his instruments are in.....

A tupperware container. :eek:

Seriously this looked like a very neat way to mount up a few instruments, especially for a light gyro like a Gyrobee. His container/pod is a square-ish type, with a clear bottom and a blue lid. He has the pod mounted to a round one inch or so in diameter aluminum tube that looks to be welded to a plate which is bolted to the keel between the rudder pedals. Looking at the size of the pod it looks like he has enough room for 4 or 5 instruments, and since it has a clearish bottom, you can kinda see the back of the instruments.

I guess if you glued a piece of lexan or 1/16th aluminum plate to the lid to give the panel a firm surface for the instruments, it would hold up well. And access to the wires is as simple as popping off the lid. Use a big enough container and you could have a mini storage bin for your cellphone, rotorstrap and a spare pint of oil.....

And yes I know David Holmes has the cool mailbox panel, but this is smaller sleeker and maybe free if you can sneek one out of the wifes collection!
 
One of the ultralight guys here made an instrument pod for his Quicksilver out of a empty baby-wipe pail mounted to the root tube above his head. It was rectangular, about 10" wide x 6" high x 8 " deep.
 
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