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Date:  6-18-2017
Number of Hours:  10.00
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Brief Description:  Nose wheel pant and fairing

The logged hours were not all spent in the hangar today. I'm guesstimating how long it took to fit the two nose gear pant pcs to the fork, rivet and flox the mounting brackets to the big pcs, sand and squeegee on white-tinted, undiluted West System epoxy, sand the cured epoxy smooth. Also, the the slot in the small pc was a little bit asymmetrical, so I filled it in again with several layers of glass and micro, then sanded all that fair to the outer surface.

Then applued a HEAVY coat of Rustoleum Primer Filler (grey), which revealed a small but not zero number of remaining pinholes. What the hell, laid on more Primer Filler until the pinholes disappeared. Once cured, I sanded it all off w/220 paper with a random orbit palm sander, leaving grey specks in (almost) all of the pinholes.

Next, a thin coat of Rusto Sandable Primer (black) looked pretty smooth, so I final coated directly with Rusto Gloss White. Looks reasonable in Image1; imperfect up close but it will screen the plastic from UVs and oil drips until I decide when and what to do about painting the bird. And increase the cost of said paint job if I don't sand everything off again down to the green glass before going to a painter.

All this work was done at home. Image1 shows me bringing the slot on the fwd pc of the pant to final size on 6/18.

Image2 shows why a fridge with cold water is absolutely necessary to work on your project in the Livermore summer. That's the temp at 5' AGL. I put up the second probe about 15' higher, where is was pushing 115 F. Talk about a non-standard lapse rate....
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