Attaching Heater to Sump

We’re gearing up to move into our new diggs, but in the meantime we potted our door pin receiver covers in, and installed the Reiff preheat system. Also you can see the spray foam we’re making the beauty covers on the sides of the footwells. Sump prepared Sump heating element For formatting only Lorem ipsum […]

Door Pin Covers Potted

We did get the door receiver covers potted in today, but the custom window beauty covers weren’t cured enough to pull out. However, we did put the landing light lens back on, and finalized the engine preheater installion to the oil sump. On another note, we will be moving the Fox to a new home, with an […]

Making Window Edge Covers

We’re almost ready to pot the receiver covers in, and we should be able to pull the custom window beauty covers tomorrow. We also started working on beauty covers for the footwells, installing the Reiff engine preheat system, and we may be getting a new hangar!.

Door Pin Covers, Part II

We worked on the door covers some more today, and should be ready to pot them in tomorrow. I also put the cylinder band heaters on the cylinders (which went pretty well aside from #3 which really didn’t want to wrap around). I’ll put the sump heater on tomorrow. We also covered all of the […]

Window Frames, Part I

I tried to fit the window covers to the windows. Like my buddy Andy, I wasn’t happy with how they fit, and I had to do covers for the strake windows anyway, so I elected to make my own covers. The West epoxy didn’t seem to want to stick Triax on the ceiling, though, so […]

Windscreen Upholstery Cover

We brought the fuselage back to the hangar today. The airport was great about letting us store it, the canard, and the cowling in the back of the FBO’s hangar to give us a little more space, and not have to worry about overspray (and about painting in our hangar generally). Jerry worked on installing […]