{"id":499,"date":"2013-02-08T16:57:31","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T16:57:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-12T16:21:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T16:21:10","slug":"further-work-on-cowl-joint-sta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2013\/02\/08\/further-work-on-cowl-joint-sta\/","title":{"rendered":"Further Work on Cowl Joint, Started Gear Leg Fairings"},"content":{"rendered":"

I popped the two cowl halves apart again. \u00a0The epoxy\/flox filler worked perfectly and there’s a nice smooth that perfectly matches the outside of the lower cowl. \u00a0The end of the flange was a little epoxy starved, so I mixed up some lightweight filler and buttered it up. \u00a0I’ll sand this flush tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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I had a bunch of excess lightweight filler left over, so I covered the last of the fiberglass strips on the left side of the upper cowl.<\/p>\n

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Since I need the filler to cure before making any more progress on the cowl, I decided to get started on the gear leg fairings. I lined up the fairing with a couple of squares to ensure there is absolutely no twist. \u00a0Any amount of twist is added drag, and can act like a rudder to yaw the plane. \u00a0After I was sure it had no twist, I taped the trailing edge together in a few spots. \u00a0This not only keeps it straight during the next couple of steps, but the tape strips will act as a indicator to ensure I don’t introduce any twist later.<\/p>\n

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I cut out the gear leg fairing template and lined it up with a line I drew on the leading edge, making sure to make the leading edge of the template 3 7\/32 back from the scribe line.<\/p>\n

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I then taped up the rest of the template and marked all the way around.<\/p>\n

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Here’s the marked fairing.<\/p>\n

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After a few minutes with tin snips and a sanding block, here are the trimmed fairings.<\/p>\n

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I popped the two cowl halves apart again. \u00a0The epoxy\/flox filler worked perfectly and there’s a nice smooth that perfectly matches the outside of the lower cowl. \u00a0The end of the flange was a little epoxy starved, so I mixed up some lightweight filler and buttered it up. \u00a0I’ll sand this flush tomorrow. I had … 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":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finishing","category-firewall-forward"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","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=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3525,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/3525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}