Door Pin Covers, Part V

Door Pin Covers, Part V

Here you can see our newly polished and installed door locking pin covers. Jerry does nice work with the metals. 🙂 I think this pretty much finishes up the “prepare for interior upholstering” work. Finished door pin covers   For formatting only Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisci elit, sed eiusmod tempor incidunt ut […]

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Door Pin Covers, Part IV

Door Pin Covers, Part IV

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 […]

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Door Pin Covers, Part III

Door Pin Covers, Part III

Here we’re finally getting to potting the door pins into attractive shapes under the pin covers with flox. Not only do these look much nicer, the flush finish keeps them from goring your butt when you’re getting in and out of the airplane. Jerry did a really nice job of fitting the pins to the […]

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Door Pin Covers, Part II

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 […]

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Door Pin Covers, Part I

Door Pin Covers, Part I

December, 2009 Here we’re finally installing the door cover panels. Since we’re going to be looking to have the upholstery installed this spring we need to finalize some of these details so they can do their work. Here we’ve used structural epoxy to mount the attach points, which were previously made (see below). Because of […]

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