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 #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 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 into the jointa between the 2 halves and make seperating them difficult. I pushed some modeling clay into the join seams to keep 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 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 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 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 made any provision for seperating the flox ring. So quickly I fashioned some modeling clay plugs and again reaching in from the 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 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 lights on them for heat and will let them cure throughout the night. We'll see tomorrow how difficult seperating them will be.
Forward flange lay-up sanded and nutplated attached
Machined aluminum air inlet rings taped in position
Epoxy/flox mixture injected and 'dams' built on each side of each ring for seperation
