Hi All,
I'm in the process of fitting my spinner to my Hartzell CS prop. I made the two cutouts in the spinner where the prop shanks fit. I made the cuts just inside the lines pre-scribed on the spinner from Vans. The cutout pieces were preserved all per plans to fabricate the S-606A spinner gap fillers. I've needed to enlarge the spinner openings so they're not rubbing against the prop blades. This enlargement is causing the seams where my prop gap fillers will go to grow bigger and bigger. It's to the point now where I'll have a 3/32" to 1/8" gap in the seams where the gap fillers will fit against the spinner prop openings. Not thinking that'll look very good. But maybe this is common? Of course, the plans show nice tight seams there.
My questions are:
1. Should I not worry about it and live with these (to me) large seam gaps with my gap covers?
2. Has anyone fabricated new ones of metal that have nice tight seams? If so, how did it turn out? What aluminum thickness did you use? And how did you bend the thick aluminum to conform to the curve of the spinner bulkhead? My spinner fiberglass is about .082 thick. I was thinking about using a scrap piece of .063 to make new gap covers.
Thanks for any advice and everyone's time.
Cheers,
Scott Davis
I'm in the process of fitting my spinner to my Hartzell CS prop. I made the two cutouts in the spinner where the prop shanks fit. I made the cuts just inside the lines pre-scribed on the spinner from Vans. The cutout pieces were preserved all per plans to fabricate the S-606A spinner gap fillers. I've needed to enlarge the spinner openings so they're not rubbing against the prop blades. This enlargement is causing the seams where my prop gap fillers will go to grow bigger and bigger. It's to the point now where I'll have a 3/32" to 1/8" gap in the seams where the gap fillers will fit against the spinner prop openings. Not thinking that'll look very good. But maybe this is common? Of course, the plans show nice tight seams there.
My questions are:
1. Should I not worry about it and live with these (to me) large seam gaps with my gap covers?
2. Has anyone fabricated new ones of metal that have nice tight seams? If so, how did it turn out? What aluminum thickness did you use? And how did you bend the thick aluminum to conform to the curve of the spinner bulkhead? My spinner fiberglass is about .082 thick. I was thinking about using a scrap piece of .063 to make new gap covers.
Thanks for any advice and everyone's time.
Cheers,
Scott Davis