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HansLab

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She already was pretty, but is even more so now I've had her spinner lifted ;-) It took some brain time to get there, but the result is irresistible.
Beautiful product: VAN's could opt for one (in that case Cummins would likely add openings for the propellor blades, which gave me a big PIA).
Happy landings!!

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Perhaps look at

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frustrating but a real lesson.
And: hey! I built two airplanes - I can get this thing working, although I don't know what's wrong at the moment.
(story of my life (the ' I can get this going because I've built, etc-thing).
Please try this one: I made a google website with some pics in it.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/kN5BS7E8TnSpzUxj9
 
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That looks nice!
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details: sure! I built this RV12 as a E/AB. the colors came as I was looking for a paintsceme to let as much of the rivet-lines, as possible. Once painted one looses the effect of the straight lines. So, I was looking for a paint-scene that could provide me with as much bare aluminum as possible, yet covering all epoxy.
I was standing in a museum when a little girl asked her mom: 'Why this painter needed so much painting for so few paint?' An idea was bron, for this was about Piet Mondriaan, a famous Dutch painter.
PH-MON was still available, and the rest is history. Paint is just latex (with a roller) and electrical tape (will replace that with wrap for it comes loose with heat).
The spinner was my only pita. I sprayed fluid gold onto it ('chrome paint, $40,00 for some 30CC) but without result on long term.
As far as I could see the only all-aluminum spinner supplier is Cummins in Australia. This is a 9,5" spinner (original is 10") without a top-plate for 'the backplate is sturdy enough' according to the manufacturer. Until the last minute it stayed unknown whether the spinner would fit over the hub - but it does.
I ordered the polishing, as well as the holes in the back-plate.
As written, one has to order the hole for the pitot up front, and I enlarged the 1/32" step-by-step with a step-drill. Exiting, for Heaven knows whether it is centered enough. It is, apparently: better then my epoxy-spinner was. That one had some play, the all-version does not.
All hardware is supplied. Manual through YouTube. As written, opening the spinner for the cut-outs for the blades was quite a thing: it had to be perfect the first time. Part of the cut-outs are being re-used (below the blades) so unforgiving. I cut them out with an air-pressurized saw, and finalized with a Dremel. The parts under the blades are dimpled and attached per Van's manual.
Attached to the Rotax it appears to have too little space between the back-plate and the cowling. I put 1 mm shimmy's under the hub, and it was barely enough.
Now I ordered a ¼" faceplate (http://www.aeroshop.com.py/en/propellers/11716-warp-drive---rotax-1-4--faceplate.html)" that will ease my thoughts.
Not much changed since then, apart from the fact that pushing her back into the hangar this new spinner really gets warm! It does not touches the cowling so I think it is radiation from the Rotax: aluminum guides heat better that the original epoxy.
 
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