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Saturday, May 13, 2017

Firewall oil cooler mount and empennage fairing: 4 hours


  • Prepped, primed mating surfaces and did initial riveting on firewall oil cooler mount. This is a part from the RV-10 which is designed for a larger oil cooler. I will make an adapter plate to fit the smaller oil cooler for the 360 engine. However if I need to I will be able to swap to a larger oil cooler.
  • Sanded and cleaned empennage fairing, waxed vertical fin, then applied a flox gap filler layup to the vertical portion of the fairing. I also added a few pieces of cloth to the right side of the fairing.



Flox filler and some extra cloth curing (the tape pieces are peel ply):

Oil cooler mount riveted and  ready to fit adapter plate: