| IT's been a while since I've gotten any work done on the plane. Patrick returning home, fly fishing trip to Lee's Ferry, trip to OSH, |
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| return and catch-up on honey do's, and this afternoon I got back into the shop. It's also 'cooled down to 98-99! (still a bear, but |
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| doable! vs 118). there's been a bunch of noise about heat inside the cockpit. A LOT of opinion about its cause and it cure. I |
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| figure that the easiest thing to do is to keep it out of the cockpit by putting an insulating blanket on the engine side of the firewall. |
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| I got a piece of .020 stainless steel and made a pattern of the inside dimensions of the forward face of the firewall. Then used |
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| that pattern to cut out the SS. Took a while with a combo of files and emery paper to get it smooth, I'll test fit it in the am. The |
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| plan is to get it cut and drilled to match the firewall then to glue a blanket of Fiberfrax betewwn it and the original firewall. |
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| Fiberfrax is a heat barrier, and should do a pretty good job of insulating the firewall. the challenge is going to be in match drilling |
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| all of the existing holes into ne new 'FAUX' firewall. |
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