Today I had to work, but it was only a day trip so I got some time in the Garaggio. I got some words of advice from Mike and James on the gear doors. I am not going to worry too much if the doors snap open. But I didn’t consider side loads on theContinue reading “Gear door saga continues”
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Its been a while…
Well, it has been a while since I have posted on my blog. Rest assured that there have been things happening in the Garaggio for the last month and a half, I just haven’t kept up with the blog. So the textual detail will be somewhat sparse, but in a few posts I would likeContinue reading “Its been a while…”
Mounting the top Cowl
Well, since we have a rough cowl, now we have to trim and mount it. Trimming was accomplished pretty easily with a tin snips for rough trimming and then sanding to my trim lines. Bonding areas for the mounting flanges along the wings were prep sanded and the cowl was then jigged in place usingContinue reading “Mounting the top Cowl”
More Cowl Shaping
I didn’t end up with a lot of time yesterday to work on the airplane, but I did want to try to pursue some of the suggestions that I got from James on how to make the cylinder bumps more aerodynamic and smaller. I got the dremmel out and removed parts of the wood splinesContinue reading “More Cowl Shaping”
Cowl Surgery Commences
Today was day one of cowl surgery. I started by making a template for the cowl air outlet. I made it out of 3/4 pressboard. It took a bit to figure out the shape I wanted to end up with and verify it closely matched the pre-fab cowl exit area and width. One thing IContinue reading “Cowl Surgery Commences”
Time to mount the cowl.
Today I was planning on getting started working on mounting the cowl. In order to do that, the wings have to be on. So it was time to rearrange the shop yet again and mount the wings. First up is rearrange the workshop to get the fuselage in the proper location for mounting the wings.Continue reading “Time to mount the cowl.”
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