Also, we decided to do a couple of optional operations to our stakes at this point. The first was install an extra set of bulkheads inside of the door to give us a pocket for fuel testing, etc. This pocket was also completed with a drain in case rain or dew were to condense in […]
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Once the airplane is rolled over, the top strake to spar join is made by filling the recess between with micro and covering with two BID. Then the Outboard and rear bulkheads can have their top to strake skin bonds laid up. Also, while the plane was upside down we made a repair to the pilot […]
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Before installing the upper strake half, all of the interior surfaces are covered with Jeffco Fuel sealant. And the fuel intake screen is installed. Next the bulkheads and baffles have a significant (about 1/4″) mound of Jeffco and flox spread on them top stake skin is carefully set in place, with the ground wire exiting […]
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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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