{"id":362,"date":"2014-02-03T16:50:40","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T16:50:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-13T16:23:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T16:23:32","slug":"repaired-cowl-damage-from-spin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2014\/02\/03\/repaired-cowl-damage-from-spin\/","title":{"rendered":"Repaired Cowl Damage From Spinner Screws"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I did the first taxi test, I had incorrectly installed the screws that tie the conical section of the spinner backplate halves together. \u00a0I forgot that there was a note in the installation manual that the screw heads needed to be on the aft side to provide clearance between the spinner and cowl. I installed the nut on the aft side, and the ends of the screws cut into the cowl flange a bit. \u00a0I ground all of the damaged material out of the cowl and then applied a thin layer of raw epoxy to coat the inside of the cut. \u00a0In addition to reversing the screws, I switched from AN515 to AN525 screws to further reduce the height of the head.<\/p>\n

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My flox is down at the hangar, so I cut up a small piece of fiberglass cloth into tiny pieces and mixed it into some epoxy. \u00a0I filled the gap with this and left it a little proud of the surface. \u00a0I’ll grind this flat once the epoxy cures.<\/p>\n

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While the epoxy was curing, I sanded both cowl air inlet on the top and bottom. \u00a0The cowl is very close to getting the first coat of primer.<\/p>\n

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When I did the first taxi test, I had incorrectly installed the screws that tie the conical section of the spinner backplate halves together. \u00a0I forgot that there was a note in the installation manual that the screw heads needed to be on the aft side to provide clearance between the spinner and cowl. I … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firewall-forward"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3689,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/3689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}