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Date:  1-2-2014
Number of Hours:  2.00
Manual Reference:  B04
Brief Description:  Wheel pant finish work, prop redo

Sanded the seams on the main gear pants that I filled yesterday. Some light body filler and sanding and they should be ready for primer.

Added micro fill to the nose gear pant, some cowling repair areas, and a bit on the horizontal stabilizer tips to improve the leading corner fit.

Looking at my prop, it almost looked like it had a negative pitch. I loosened the bolts and tried to turn the blades to a more positive pitch. The pins on the blades prevented any more positive pitch. I took things apart and positioned the blades so the pins were moved on the other side of each other. I noticed that the "A" mark engraved on the blades lined up with each other with the blade pitch locating pins in that position. No mention of this in the instructions. Put things back together and now have plenty of movement in the forward pitch direction. Torqued the bolts and checked tracking which was still right on. Also applied a coat of paste wax to the blades per the instructions.

Note added 1/16/14: There are two sets of "A" marks on my blade roots, about 180 deg apart. With the aft facing A's aligned, the pins are in tyhe correc relationship. The forward A's are not aligned. I'm not sure the A's are there as a reference mark from the factory.
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Main gear seams filled

Main gear seams filled

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Filling nose gear joint

Filling nose gear joint

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Correct pin orientations looking at the front of the prop

Correct pin orientations looking at the front of the prop

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