{"id":446,"date":"2013-09-09T16:54:05","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T16:54:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-13T01:50:41","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T01:50:41","slug":"reshaping-and-customizing-fit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2013\/09\/09\/reshaping-and-customizing-fit\/","title":{"rendered":"Reshaping and Customizing Fit of Empennage Fairing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent a little time with the heat gun to reshape a few spots on the fairing that weren’t sitting tight against the aluminum.<\/p>\n

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The fairing now fits pretty tight all around. \u00a0There’s no more than 1\/32″gap all the way around. \u00a0Here’s the right side of the vertical stabilizer which was one of the worst fitting spots.<\/p>\n

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And here’s the fit along the right horizontal stabilizer which was also not great. \u00a0It now fits pretty well.<\/p>\n

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To get the fit perfect, I mixed up some epoxy\/flox and applied a bead under all of the edges. \u00a0I’ll have a little more filling to do underneath each flange after the epoxy sets up.<\/p>\n

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There were also some minor gaps along the leading edge of the fairing. \u00a0This should fit really nicely after I’m done.<\/p>\n

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I spent a little time with the heat gun to reshape a few spots on the fairing that weren’t sitting tight against the aluminum. The fairing now fits pretty tight all around. \u00a0There’s no more than 1\/32″gap all the way around. \u00a0Here’s the right side of the vertical stabilizer which was one of the worst … 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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-empennage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","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=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3583,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions\/3583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}