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.
He also sorted the dimpling and fixing of the rear baffle to the oil cooler. Becareful sorting out which way all the dimples go...... ;-)
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).
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.
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.
It took a couple of attempts and a remake of the bracket but got there in the end.
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!
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!
