Thu 09 February 2006 |
| Yet another half day with the morning taken doing household things. One extra was I managed to find some good microswitches that can be used for the flap limit switches. | |
| First up we glued and riveted the cowl plates together - the Araldite epoxy was used to help the thin corner bond - not structural but needed. | 
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| The Pro-Seal masking tape principle was used again to remove excess compound. | 
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| And a clamp to hold everything whilst it cured. | 
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| Then I went onto making some new inlets out of 025 sheet. This is the result of a couple of hours of hassle - getting a tight tube with the holes in the right place is not that simple. I also had to work a drawing development of a curve for the 1/2" difference between top and bottom locations to help slope the inlet upwards slightly. | 
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| Once the basic tube was done, it was cut in half and profiled for the sloped edge. | 
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| The after riveting result - came out really well. You can see the sloped front on the right hand side, this is good and flat and I can still use the plastic tube as a forma for holding and positioning. | 
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| The new inlets just popped in really nicely to the inlet locations - tomorrow I'll sort some tabs to hold it still whilst I glass it in permanently. | 
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| The time Dad wasn't helping me hold / curse / bend the inlets, he went round sorting some of the #8 single legged nutplates. We are running out (AGAIN) so the Spruce order will have a handful of these. | 
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