fstringham7a
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OK so Stein gets kettle corn.....somewhere in Van's universe some one is doing their first flight.......Dan C/Walter T building their 2nd plane.......Doug is fretting about the Comets up coming Saturday Comets comeback....................and I couldn't for the life of me figure why I wasn't getting the perfect spinner to cowl off set. Cowl off and on a hundred time. Yes I do have the top of the engine covered with towel to protect this gem from any drilling fragments. Move ahead..........two days.......got everything done. Good butt lines between cowl and it's neighbors. But the spinner to cowl have a perfect line up fit. Ya great......
perfect when your trying for 1/8 off set for the potential engine sag!!!!!!
Decided to try and see if the hinge pins in the upper cowl to fire
wall attach location would work smoothly (not riveted yet but wanted to try anyway). They worked ......with some minor tweakes). But, in the process the towel covering the engine got snaged and pulled forward a bit as I took the top cowl off.
You have got to be kidding methe CB707D aft baffle bracket (it was the only part of the baffling stuff left on as I began the cowl fit)that attaches to the aft top engine case was the bad boy causing the cowl to rise upward and thus was the problem I just knew when I took it off and adjusted it to not cause a problem the rest of the cowl fit would be fubar.......Not So
Put the cowl back on with the offender deleted and walla.......for once LUCK for me Cowl fit was better all around!!!!!!!!!
Sorry for telling this story and maybe wasting your time but I had to tell someone and you would think after 3 plus years of building I would have finally learned that if it doesn't fit .........FIND OUT WHY.
Frank @ SGU RV7A Cowl just about done......plane overall is 90% complete but 120% left to do
perfect when your trying for 1/8 off set for the potential engine sag!!!!!!Decided to try and see if the hinge pins in the upper cowl to fire
wall attach location would work smoothly (not riveted yet but wanted to try anyway). They worked ......with some minor tweakes). But, in the process the towel covering the engine got snaged and pulled forward a bit as I took the top cowl off.
You have got to be kidding me
the CB707D aft baffle bracket (it was the only part of the baffling stuff left on as I began the cowl fit)that attaches to the aft top engine case was the bad boy causing the cowl to rise upward and thus was the problem I just knew when I took it off and adjusted it to not cause a problem the rest of the cowl fit would be fubar.......Not SoPut the cowl back on with the offender deleted and walla.......for once LUCK for me
Cowl fit was better all around!!!!!!!!!Sorry for telling this story and maybe wasting your time but I had to tell someone and you would think after 3 plus years of building I would have finally learned that if it doesn't fit .........FIND OUT WHY.
Frank @ SGU RV7A Cowl just about done......plane overall is 90% complete but 120% left to do
