{"id":751,"date":"2011-08-20T17:04:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T17:04:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-09T06:35:17","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T06:35:17","slug":"finished-sealing-cowl-and-rive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2011\/08\/20\/finished-sealing-cowl-and-rive\/","title":{"rendered":"Finished Sealing Cowl and Riveted ELT Shelf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got up early this morning and finished sealing the inside of the lower cowl. \u00a0It doesn&#8217;t look like applying tinted epoxy is going to work very well. \u00a0The coats of epoxy are so thin that they&#8217;re translucent. \u00a0It would take so many coats to make an opaque white layer that it would be pretty heavy. \u00a0I&#8217;m going to end up just painting this white like most builders do. \u00a0The epoxy and filler still did a great job sealing the surface to keep oil from soaking into the fiberglass though.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20110820\/IMG_9625.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9625.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>My buddy Andre stopped by mid-morning and helped me finish riveting in the ELT shelf. \u00a0Afterward, I reinstalled the ELT. \u00a0We also riveted in the transponder antenna doubler that I fabricated and then I installed the antenna cable.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20110820\/IMG_9626.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_9626.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got up early this morning and finished sealing the inside of the lower cowl. \u00a0It doesn&#8217;t look like applying tinted epoxy is going to work very well. \u00a0The coats of epoxy are so thin that they&#8217;re translucent. \u00a0It would take so many coats to make an opaque white layer that it would be pretty &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2011\/08\/20\/finished-sealing-cowl-and-rive\/\" class=\"excerpt-link\">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":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finishing","category-fuselage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","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=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3194,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions\/3194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}