{"id":863,"date":"2011-02-13T17:07:56","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T17:07:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-08T02:31:07","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T02:31:07","slug":"worked-on-cowl-and-spinner-fit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2011\/02\/13\/worked-on-cowl-and-spinner-fit\/","title":{"rendered":"Worked on Cowl and Spinner Fit"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was getting tired of having to squeeze under the engine to get from one side of the plane to the other, so I took the tailwheel spring off and tucked the tail up tight against the wall.<\/p>\n

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This gives me almost two feet between the spinner and the garage door; perfect.<\/p>\n

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While I had the tail spring off, I took the opportunity to get a bunch of the parts ready for powder coating. \u00a0Since I’m using the JD Air Parts tailwheel link which only attaches on one side, I sliced off the other arm from the tailwheel linkage and ground the part smooth.<\/p>\n

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I also stripped the primer from the Bell tailwheel fork so that it can be powder coated. \u00a0Afterward, I wrapped silicone tape around all surfaces of the tailwheel parts that I don’t want to be powder coated and set them aside. \u00a0The tailwheel spring is too big to fit in my little powder coating oven, so I’m going to see if I can drop by a friend’s place who has a pretty big powder coating oven and do them there.<\/p>\n

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I needed to get the joint at the front of the spinner adjusted so that the opening is circular. \u00a0Instead of measuring, I just put the spinner on the front of the cowl and adjusted the fit until everything lined up nicely.<\/p>\n

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I’m using 1\/8″ spacers between the cowl and the spinner. \u00a0The gap is surprisingly good along the top.<\/p>\n

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However, the joint between the top and bottom leaves a lot to be desired.<\/p>\n

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The left side is a little better, but there’s still a noticeable step. \u00a0I spent a little time working on the fit, but there is still a lot to do before this will look good. \u00a0I’ll probably end up making the gap between the cowl and spinner a little larger to start with and I can tighten it up with some fiberglass layups at the same time I’m fixing the fit between the top and bottom halves.<\/p>\n

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I spent the rest of the night digesting the instructions and plans for the cowl. \u00a0This is likely going to be one of the tricker parts of the build.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was getting tired of having to squeeze under the engine to get from one side of the plane to the other, so I took the tailwheel spring off and tucked the tail up tight against the wall. This gives me almost two feet between the spinner and the garage door; perfect. While 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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firewall-forward"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863","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=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3055,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions\/3055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}