Wheel pants & O2
Another afternoon (4hrs) of wheel pant and fairing work while I waited for my Oxygen and Argon cylinder delivery. I got all of the nutplates on the wheel pants and them mounted to the gear. The gear legs are on and aligned (hopefully). I am using the Fairings-etc. intersection fairings. I have found some of the fit to be marginal on some of the pieces. I finished my day with the main gear leg to fuselage intersection fairings clecoed in place and a slurry of filler drying in place where the fairings didn’t fit so well. After that is set, I’ll have a base to reshape some of the the fairing. I’ll probably first just cleanup the filler and go fly! There is still going to be a lot of time involved in improving the fit of all these parts before they are ready for paint. I’m just going to do that in between flights.
My welding cylinders arrived. Yee Haw! I used the transfill plumbing that I purchased from Mountain High to fill up my oxygen cylinder. This worked out great. Two source transfill cylinders are definitely the minimum configuration. The initial fill of the airplane cylinder took a few hundred pounds of pressure out of the first source cylinder. There is only a few hundred pound usable range (1800-2200 psi) in the breathing cylinder. I topped it off with the second cylinder nicely. My first source cylinder is now only good for filling to less than about 1900psi.. A refill on the source cylinders are only about $15 :). This is very cool to be able to fill my own stuff in the hangar.
The Argon cylinder is for my next project to get setup to learn to TIG weld.
