Sat 01 October 2005 |
| Another day - and guess what - more baffles! Geez these take FOREVER! Dad continued with the oil cooler mounting / bracing. We are trying to keep all the surfaces nice and smooth to help provide better cooling. | 
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| He also sorted the dimpling and fixing of the rear baffle to the oil cooler. Becareful sorting out which way all the dimples go...... ;-) | 
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| I continued with the front baffles, the LHS baffle is a problem in that we can't get the recommended F1A plate in on the front surface. There is no (/ not enough) material on the baffle floor (shown between the centre baffle and the ring gear). | 
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| I decided to finish and lock the position of the RHS front baffle first by making a small angle fix for the front section. The plans use a F11B plate but that has some funky angles that I didn't really want to play with, so this seemed like a simpler solution and the pro-seal can seal the gaps. | 
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| Back to the LHS, I made a 120 ish degree bend in a plate and then focused on getting the front and floor square with each other and the front in the right plane to meet up with the other side. | 
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| It took a couple of attempts and a remake of the bracket but got there in the end. | 
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| The VANs baffles nearly finished, only the LHS front / LHS floor mini angle to sort (instead of the F1B) and then it is ready for some priming. The next stage (non-standard) is to sort the plenum structure. We have been thinking hard over the past few days and I think we have a cunning plan which should be simple (ish), light and easy for maintenance. The devil as always will be in the detail! | 
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| Tomorrow looks like the weather might be good - low winds, warm sunshine, so we might get a big batch of priming sorted - lots todo and we are really running out of clecos at the moment - time to rivet something together! | |
