5th
August
2011
Fiberglass, mostly
Hours: 3.4 | Posted in Cowling & Baffles, Engine, Wing & Tail JoinsMore work on the fiberglass stuff…
- Trimmed yesterday’s layup on the FAB; spread some flox/epoxy into the gap, and added another ply of glass on the inside.
- Scraped and sanded the epoxy runs off the HS/VS tips; the epoxy isn’t fully cured yet so will wait until later to sand, when it’s harder.
- Did a little cleanup on the empennage fairing, scraping off the unidentified brown goo splotches from the factory.
- Tacked the foam block into the cowling snout.
And a bit of non-fiberglass stuff for sanity…
- Torqued & sealed the fuel hoses at the flow transducer; FWF fuel system now complete.
- Torqued & sealed the oil cooler lines; oil system now complete.
- Deburred & dimpled the flanges of everything subpanel & forward…moving toward riveting the top skin. Also had to remove the canopy pin mechanism, which will be fun to reinstall from under the panel while laying upside down…
- Removed the camloc strips, deburred and dimpled the attach holes.
- Cut a sheet of .020 and bent an angle into the edges, then fit it to the bottom of the fuel pump mounting plate. Since this piece has a bunch of nutplates on the bottom of it, and many tubes & wires run beneath it, I decided that having a sheet in there would be a good idea to prevent any possible chafing (there is clearance between the plate and the bundles, but just in case, vibration and all that…). This looks like it will do the job nicely. It’s tacked to the mounting plate with a blob of Goop at each corner, and one in the center.
Doing some evening reading and working up a list for tomorrow, when I’ll again ignore all the other work that needs to be done to spend the day in the shop.
