Kit #7 arrived

[Utah-Jay]

Installed the weight tubes in the ailerons
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Yep it balances
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Finished the trimming and cutting as well as bending the attach area to match the curve of the bottom cowl
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[Utah-Jay]

The more I do it seems the more I have to do

[marcusofcotton]

Yep, the old 90% completed and 90% left to go rule.

[Utah-Jay]

So what is this?
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It’s a redneck roller

Yep, needed to roll my cowl doors and did not have access to the correct tool
IMG_4155.jpgIMG_4154.jpg Doors are nicely rolled so it is easy to attach then to the crossbar.

Did a bunch of sanding and filling and then more sanding before I layed up the fiberglass on the inside of my air box/air scoop cover
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Prepared my next mold for fiberglass, this thingy is another part of my air scoop
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[Utah-Jay]

More fiberglass work on the “air scoop” to maximize airflow to the air box. It will make sense later, but this is the mold for the area above the bottom cowl
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[Utah-Jay]

Three weeks of work/travel allow for a lot of thinking time. So I mentally re-engineered my air-scoop for my carb airbox.

It has now been primed and will be rivet assembled tomorrow.

Here are the steps, just note the edges have been trimmed and sanded/rounded since these photos were taken this morning.
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The last photo shows what I used to make the two side panels, it is the leftover from the kit air scoop, so the 90 degree flanges were already there which will be riveted to the inside of the bottom engine cowl.

The front bottom had to be rounded to match the cowl shape and I will make a fiberglass flange for that to be fitted to the proper shape and then put a strip of metal to sandwich the fiberglass for riveting.

That was about 2 hours work. EZPZ

[Utah-Jay]

Riveted the top cowl to the piano hinges and the cowl doors to the piano hinges. Down the middle is a line of rivets that is a “U” channel stiffener for the top cowl.

I did screw up in a big way…. I had the top cowl all perfectly flush riveted to the piano hinges and then ding… ding… ding I realized I forgot to attach the “U” channel to the bottom of the piano hinge. So I had to drill out the rivets and redo the riveting. Stuff happens

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[rkennell]

Looks good. I am glad I am not the only one to have to redo what a I have done.

[Utah-Jay]

Looks good. I am glad I am not the only one to have to redo what a I have done.

Ha, the first one was good in fiberglass…. But my problem is I have too much time to think on work trips and I conjure up ideas.

The metal version is easier (2.5 hours total) and lighter, so a win-win.

Did lots of stuff yesterday, will post later… but I think my sight gauges are gonna turn out great

[Utah-Jay]

Sight gauges
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[Utah-Jay]

I had to fabricate a low pressure lip for the bottom of my cowl for cooling.

5 hours to from and fit the foam. I have a perfect 45 degree angle all the way around.
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next was to prepared the cowling for the glassing and tape the mold to the cowling.

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[Utah-Jay]

Pushing sandpaper
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[Utah-Jay]

Popped my low pressure lip out of the mold IMG_4297.jpgIMG_4298.jpg
taped off for trimming
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Trimmed
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and because I love to sand, I filled it in with SuperFill so I can sand some moreIMG_4302.jpg

[Utah-Jay]

Lots done today.
Sanded the low pressure lip from this
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To this
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This is how it looks/fits currently

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Then filled in the low spots with SuperFill… Again
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Drilled and Cleco’d in the NACA air ducts

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Finished painting the wing root panels and installed them, along with the headset jacks and sight gauges
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Back to sanding tomorrow

[Utah-Jay]

Here is the final fit of the low pressure lip before I use the paint on pin hole filler.
IMG_4322.jpgIMG_4321.jpg I did do a bit of trimming after this photos, but for the most part that is the lip. It measures 2.5” and has a uniform 45 degree angle

Here is how I left it today with the pint on filler drying
IMG_4325.jpg Also did a lot of work on the air scoop frame, but forgot to take photos. I did cleco in the upper part to the engine cowl.

Goal is to finalize the lip prior to work travel on Tuesday.

[Sierra Skydog]

Lookin’ good….thanks for all the photos?

[Sierra Skydog]

Didn’t mean ? But meant?