{"id":554,"date":"2012-10-27T16:57:32","date_gmt":"2012-10-27T16:57:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-12T07:07:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T07:07:00","slug":"reinforced-oil-cooler-duct-fla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2012\/10\/27\/reinforced-oil-cooler-duct-fla\/","title":{"rendered":"Reinforced Oil Cooler Duct Flange"},"content":{"rendered":"

The oil cooler duct flange from Van’s is made of some very thin aluminum and is not welded all the way around. \u00a0Aircraft Spruce has some spun flanges that I really would have rather used, but they don’t go up to 4″. \u00a0People have had issues with the Van’s flanges breaking off, so I decided to reinforce this a bit. \u00a0I mixed up some epoxy\/flox and formed a fillet at the joint, then after it cured, mixed up some epoxy\/micro to smooth it out a bit. \u00a0Hopefully this will prevent this from ever separating.<\/p>\n

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I spread the extra epoxy\/micro mixture over the fiberglass tape on the top cowl (covering the holes I drilled when fitting the cowl.<\/p>\n

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The oil cooler duct flange from Van’s is made of some very thin aluminum and is not welded all the way around. \u00a0Aircraft Spruce has some spun flanges that I really would have rather used, but they don’t go up to 4″. \u00a0People have had issues with the Van’s flanges breaking off, so I decided … 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-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firewall-forward"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","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=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3459,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/3459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}