Any decent quality leather stitching work will require a walking foot industrial
machine; the cams in a home unit will destroy themselves fairly quickly and
there is just not enough grunt to push through four layers on a piping seam; pay
the money, buy the right machine and practice or pay for someone elses knowledge
and experience; cut your stencils in cardboard for the interior panels and
take them to a trimmer if the trimmer cannot come to you, or take entire
fuselage
to the trim shop; do the job once, do it right and be happy... two hides
will be enough to trim the interior and its important to think about access
for service and derigging purposes when planning. The risk of fire on a europa
is low due to fuel tank and firewall design/materials and if the fuel tank did
catch fire on impact the occupants would probably already be dead from the force
of impact required to push a hot engine pipe back into and puncture the fuel
tank...
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