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Buck's RV-8
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Date: 12-19-2014
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Number of Hours: 2.50
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Brief Description: Wing root fairings; nav light cover
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Tonight I resumed work on the R wing root fairings and rubber gap seal. I made two mistakes which resulted in having to order a replacement F-872BPP aft root fairing. First, I joggled the end of the aft fairing, but mis-read the drawing. It said to start the joggle "1/8 inch aft of the edge." The intended "edge" is the edge of the forward fairing. I interpreted it to mean 1/8" from the edge of the underlying spar, so my joggle was 1/8" off. Second, I struggled mightily to get the rubber seal channel to fit in the specified 1/8 to 1/4" gap from the fuselage. I measured the rubber channel and decided that there was no way it could possibly fit into the 1/4" gap I had, so I opened the gap to nearly 7/16" The first photo shows that the rubber channel fits tightly into a 7/16" gap, but I have been advised by several other RV-8 builders that this is way too big, and the channel will come out. So I have some investigation to do. While waiting for my replacement fairing to arrive, I will work on the left wing fairings, and I will start with a much smaller gap.
I got some new black polycarbonate paint for the edges of the nav lights lenses, and was going to paint them tonight. However, I have decided that there is a little slop between the lenses and the wingtips. They rattle a slight amount, even when the attach screws are fully tightened down. So I am going to install four more screws/nutplates on each wingtip, which will take care of the issue.
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Test-fitting the rubber seal. The underlying gap here is nearly 1/2"!
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The mis-joggled, mis-cut piece of metal that is now some nice scrap 0.025.
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Arrows mark the location that I will add additional screws to the lens.
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