Quick night tonight. I put on the first coat of what I’m sure is going to be many layers of epoxy/micro filler. I’m going to
Author: Ed
Glassing things in
I decided to add a layer of fiberglass cloth over the flange of the overhead console to make it just that much stronger. Also, in
Tires mounted!
Since it’s freaking cold in Minnesota (who knew??), epoxy takes a long time to cure. While it is, I decided to mount the tires onto
Aerosport Overhead Install
I couldn’t wait to pull the seals off to see how the edges looked, so I missed that on the video. But I can tell
Building up door opening edges
Using the McMaster door seals required me to sand back the edges of the door opening in the cabin top to an even 1/4″ from
Right door pins drilled
Just like the other day’s work on the left door, today I match drilled the right door pins, sized up the door blocks, got the
Door strut brackets
Today, I started locating the door strut brackets on the cabin top and the door. I have the PlaneAround strut brackets, which are machined with
Door blocks
Tonight, I started by fine tuning the PlaneAround angled door pins. Since the door pins have a slash cut angle at the end of them
One door latched closed!
More door latch work today. I finished up putting the pilots door handle parts together. The last step that I needed to do was to
More handles
Tonight was spent figuring out how everything actually fit into the door. Again, there was a lot of tweaking, grinding, sanding, and cutting to make