Kit #7 arrived

[Utah-Jay]

It was the day to remove the engine cowl and nose bowl. Lots of filling and sanding, then rinse and repeat several times
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The I printed on the pinhole filler, so lots more sanding to come. This pinhole filler sands really easily though.
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The last phase of the airflow for the air filter was this fiberglass bracket which will have a metal strip for the riveting process. Laying up fiberglass is getting easy, which is good with the window faring still to come.
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[Utah-Jay]

A buddy gave me a really cool gift today
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[wbolan]

I was wondering how you attached the carb heat box to the carb? Did you find stud that go into the carb and just use nuts to attach the box? There is not much room in the carb heat box.

[rodsmith]

Very nice work, takes a lot of effort to get a good finish! So glad I'm done with all the composite pieces.

[Utah-Jay]

What does 25 hours look like?
A Husky owner and a Carbon Cub owner both looked at my low pressure lip this afternoon and both declared a factory could not have done better.
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5 hours on the mold alone. Too many fills and sanding sessions to bother to count.

The Air Scoop frame did not make it to a priming stage, but it is all fitted and sanded
IMG_4338.jpg I Owe I Owe it’s off to work I go. Hope to see some of you at Oshkosh

[Utah-Jay]

Didn’t mean ? But meant?

I am trying leave a detailed build for those that will be building in the future. I had no interest in doing videos due to the editing time. I am glad the thread might be of some value

[Sierra Skydog]

Supposed to be thumbs up

[Sierra Skydog]

Didn’t mean ? But meant?

[Sierra Skydog]

Lookin’ good….thanks for all the photos?

[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.

[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]

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]

Pushing sandpaper
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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.

IMG_4286.jpgIMG_4285.jpgIMG_4287.jpg And then the glassing
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[Utah-Jay]

Sight gauges
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