| The cold hangs on! Sanded and finished the pay-ups from Sat, and drilled two holes on each side for #8 screws, then installed 2 |
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| #8 nutplates per side. The next task is to flox in the air coolerintake rings, I've been hesitant about this as you need to wax the |
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| rings( 6 coats) and then hope that the ring will release from the flox mixture. I was also concerned that the flox mis would seep |
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| into the jointa between the 2 halves and make seperating them difficult. I pushed some modeling clay into the join seams to keep |
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| flox out. Taped the alum rings in position after sanding the opening to allow for them to fit. Instructions say to put the cowl fully |
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| fastened together on it nose and to pout in a flox mixture around the rings. That might work on a -7 or - cowl but this cowl is too |
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| long to reach in, so i raised it up on some saw horses, and used a large syringe that I picked up from Checker auto and inkected |
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| the mixture by reaching up through the spinner ring opening. I was all done and admiring my work when I realized that I hadn't |
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| made any provision for seperating the flox ring. So quickly I fashioned some modeling clay plugs and again reaching in from the |
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| spinner opening I pushed them in one 2 sides of each ring at the seam. I'm hoping that I got all of the epoxy/flox pushed out as I |
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| pupshed them in or I'm going to have fun trying to get the cowl halves seperated after this set's up. Oh Well! I put some halogen |
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| lights on them for heat and will let them cure throughout the night. We'll see tomorrow how difficult seperating them will be. |
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