We finished carefully cutting and shaping two square and one round aluminum tube to frame the baggage door area. Afterwards, we cleaned the parts, roughed up the mating areas slightly, and epoxied them into place with Hysol. Once the epoxy cured a bit, the fillets were smoothed with a wet finger.
 |
| Baggage door opening |
 |
| Close-up of baggage door epoxy joints |
Similarly we cut and shaped 4 aluminum tubes that will frame a pass-through opening for the landing gear. Having this special opening will allow us to easily remove or service the Grove landing gear without removing fabric in the future. We epoxied the tubes between the bottom stringer and the fuselage.
 |
| Gear opening tube epoxied b/w the bottom stringer and fuselage |
We still have a few cross-tubes to cut and install to finish off the gear opening, but need to make some measurements and test a mock-up first because we want to make these openings as small as possible, but just large enough to feed the gear through. In prep for this, we removed the tires and brakes, and put the fuselage back on the rotisserie. This will allow us to rotate the fuselage around so we can test this out. Hours: 8
No comments:
Post a Comment