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Date:  7-5-2017
Number of Hours:  10.00
Manual Reference:  no ref
Brief Description:  Oil Heater 3 Carving the Duct

Now we need an expanding duct that goes from the NACA and slows the air on its way to the heat exchanger.

I started with a block of blue foam after planning out my size and degree of expansion. I went with 5 degrees after some research. 7 (or 11 degrees included) is the MAX but less is better if there is room.

After carving as you see in the first two pics I then microed the shape. After cure I sanded it down and then did another lot of micro. Finally I waxed the mold shape and covered it with several layers of hairspay for a release.

In retrospect, using duct tape is pretty good and a LOT faster. This job was two cure cyles and took a while. Pic three has the setup ready for glassing.
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Foam carving

Foam carving

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Shaped

Shaped

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Microed and waxed

Microed and waxed

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