Well, this is where things went terribly wrong. First off, the instructions refer to a “strake cut template” that you don’t get in your kit. You’re supposed to lay this over the strake about 30″ back from the place were the fuselage halves meet on the front of the door opening. You call the factory, […]
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The sump tank gets mounting tabs on the rounded side, to allow it to be connected to the gear bulkhead with AN3 bolts later. These tabs are made out of 2 ply of BID laying flat (3″x4″) and 2 ply of TRIAX (2″x4″) laid on the sump in and ‘L’ shape to overlap the BID. Here’s a […]
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We’ll be installing Vance Atkinson’s very nice lighted fuel gauges, which come with separate instructions to open up about 1/2 holes in the face of the bulkhead and fill it with flox. Then you sand everything up nicely, bond the white backing plate to the bulkhead with flox made from one of the clear epoxies, drill a […]
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Once you’ve located the baffles all you have to do is sand them down to exactly match the upper strake skin. You start by working from the outside in, so you get the bulkhead nearest the wing root to match the wing properly. Again, you have to repeatedly check that the wing still at the […]
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This is a fairly un-nerving step, unless you like cutting huge holes in very expensive things. Fortunately I’m beginning to really believe that I could fix a major fiberglass mistake. The instructions say to cut an opening 18 inches forward of the gear bulkhead (that’s an easy measurement to make on the outside of the […]
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This section was actually fairly fun, with the exception of the static ground line. The dimensions on our plane are a little different than in the plans as we purchased a different fuel cap. We go these nice brushed aluminum locking caps – Basically you first drill a hole through the inner strake skin and […]
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