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Greg's RV-9A Builder Site
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Date: 6-22-2009
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Number of Hours: 4.00
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Brief Description: More Tips, Prop
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Great day today. First, I cleaned up the VS tip that I had to redo, and riveted it on. The fit is perfect. Then I started on the HS tips, by first removing it from the wall, and setting it up in some of the old wooden stands I had made when building the empennage. Then I basically went through the process I went through with the VS, except I did a trial fit of each elevator, and it's corresponding tip to make sure these would fit the first time. Then I made a foam rib, and fit it into the end of the tip, and layed up a layer of glass over it. After it cures, I'll fill in with glass bubbles and epoxy, sand and rivet them on. Then I'll be done, except for the wing tips. During all this, a neighbor kid, who is heading off to the USAF Academy in two days, gave me a hand with the prop. I lifted it up into position while he started the bolts. Then I slowly snugged each one down, a little at a time until the prop was in position. Then I tried on the spinner. AWESOME. Then for the moment of truth. I didn't really know how long to make the cowl, but the MT guy gave me the dimensions of the spinner, and how far back it would go, and I made the cowl based on that. So I had to try out the lower cowl, to see if my calculations and "pretend prop spacer" I made out of PVC pipes over the bolts would be good enough. Well, the cowl wouldn't go on with the spinner in place, so I had to remove the spinner. Luckily, I only put a few screws in it to see how it looked. Then I had to trim the nose gear leg hole about an inch and a half. Then the cowl went into place without too much trouble. It won't be something that will be coming off too many times. Anyway, the fit was perfect, and the gap behind the spinner to the prop was great. I was very happy to see this indeed.
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HS tip in progress
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cool, huh?
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MT prop
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