Picked up 2 1/2' of skeet today from Aerozona, and completed the installation of the heat muffs by connecting the right muff to the firewall heater control valve. positioned the appropriate adel clamps to provide clearance from engine mount. A couple of the scat tubes run very close to the exhaust stacks. while in Or. I saw Ed Hayden's engine . Ed used some heat shields to shield the exhaust. Aircraft Spruce sells them, but a Local A&P told me to make them myself. Turns out he was right. I had some extra stainless steel. cut a couiple of 2 1/4" wide strips, bent them around a a large round bucking bar, fashioned some mounting straps cut from the same stainless steel. Match drilled them, dimpled and riveted them to the shields. Used some stainless steel expandable clamps to hold them in place on the exhaust stacks. Another RV-10 builder Pat Thysen from Tx dropped by this afternoon for a visit. He's here for Copperstate tomorrow. Spent several hours exchangins stories and ideas. Pat's an A&P and I picked up several suggetions for imporving some housekeeping firewall forward. THANKS PAT!
