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Greg's RV-9A Builder Site
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Date: 7-23-2009
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Number of Hours: 4.00
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Brief Description: Wheel Fairings, engine preheater
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Drilled and attached the platenuts on the wheel fairings. Received my clamps from Spruce, and clamped the nose leg and left main leg fairings in position. I will have to trim the nose wheel fairing a bit more to clear the leg and fairing when the wheel turns. I didn't read the plans closely and made a drilling mistake in the right left wheel fairing. It seems that the outboard bracket is attached with rivets, instead of screws, so I drilled the holes too large. So, back to the layup table I went and laid down a few more layers of glass inside the fairing in a few places. I'll fill the outside of the larger holes with epoxy and micro or flox maybe, and then re-drill and rivet. Also drilled one of the holes too close to the "bend", so I'll drill another hole later to attach the platenut to, after all this cures. Last, I installed the heat band on the bottom of the engine with special epoxy, after I had removed the paint. It is currently held in place with duct tape. I also managed to get two of the four cylinder bands around the base of cyllinders on the right side of the engine. They are tough, with not a whole lot of room to work. I also got the beeper box, which will enable me to turn the engine preheat on from anywhere in the world, and it will run for a specified time, probably in my case, 12 hours. But even if it was a short notice flight, I could call ahead and have it warming up while I drive to the airport, and warmer is better. Hard to think about cold weather now, in July, but it's coming and I'll be flying in it quite a bit, I imagine. The hangar I'm supposed to share in VA is heated, but you never know how heated it is.
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