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Laying
out the foam. Don't know why the photo turned out to have a yellow
cast. It reminds me of using regular color film without tungsten lights
and no blue filter to correct the cast. (yes, I'm old enough to
remember "wet" cameras and almost old enough to say that they were
better)
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Cutting
out the formers was a real pain in the rear end. I ended up using an
x-acto knife and a metal straight edge. You can also see the beginnings
of "hinges" being applied here to glue the pieces of the former
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A close up of the hinge.
Tape is applied over the
entire back
of the joint and to each side of the joint on the other side. Epoxy is
poured between the two pieces to be joined and the excess wiped off
when the piece is laid flat. |
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A little better picture of
the hinge. |
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Dada's helper for cutting
fiberglass. The yellow and
blue
wing in the back is from an old RC sig kavalier that I built with my
father when I was 10 years old. My boy is getting an early start. |
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Lower firewall with holes but front side has not yet
been glassed. |
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I have read and been told that the bolts used to hold
on the
pulleys are potential trouble. It seems that if they are tightened too
hard, they tend to rotate, even if you have filed the round heads flat.
This is a real mess because there is essentially no access to these
bolts after construction is completed. I welded on some squares of
metal to the bolt heads so that the bolt head is flush with the metal
plate and firewall front. I then dug out some holes in the firewall
with a wod chisel to accept the assemblies. This reminded me of 5th
grade shop class. |
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Bolt assemblies installed but no fiberglass on the
firewall
yet.This work was done on the 8th of October, almost 2 years after the
plans were purchased and about a year and a half after the other parts
of chapter 4. I should have just done this step rather than worrying
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