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robin(at)PaintTheWeb.com
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 7:47 am Post subject: Fairing Construction - How to?

Maybe I am missing something (no surprise) but my gap in front of the gear

leg is all about removing the lower cowl.



Robin



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Tim Olson

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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 8:07 am Post subject: Fairing Construction - How to?

So is mine, but with my 2 bladed prop, I only have about a 3" gap

and that works fine.  But, I'm trying to seal up that 3" gap with

a fairing or filler plate just like he did.  The question is,

what's the smallest gap you can have before the leg would

hit the filler plate?  Ideally, if you had no gap, you'd

have no air getting in there.

Tim Olson - RV-10 N104CD

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On 6/23/2011 10:45 AM, Robin Marks wrote:

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 Maybe I am missing something (no surprise) but my gap in front of the gear

 leg is all about removing the lower cowl.



 Robin



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Strasnuts

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Location: Salt Lake City, UT

Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 8:29 am Post subject: Fairing Construction - How to?

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On Jun 23, 2011, at 10:03, Tim Olson <Tim(at)myrv10.com> wrote:

[quote] 

 So is mine, but with my 2 bladed prop, I only have about a 3" gap

 and that works fine.  But, I'm trying to seal up that 3" gap with

 a fairing or filler plate just like he did.  The question is,

 what's the smallest gap you can have before the leg would

 hit the filler plate?  Ideally, if you had no gap, you'd

 have no air getting in there.

 Tim Olson - RV-10 N104CD

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 On 6/23/2011 10:45 AM, Robin Marks wrote:

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> Maybe I am missing something (no surprise) but my gap in front of the gear

> leg is all about removing the lower cowl.

> 

> Robin

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Albert Gardner

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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 8:33 am Post subject: Fairing Construction - How to?

The material is thin - .026" as I recall - and not fastened to the cowl

right at the gear leg. I have seen no evidence that the fairing has ever hit

it but the filler piece can move away from the cowl if the gear leg fairing

did hit it. I suppose one could even make the last inch or so of the filler

piece out of baffle material but that might just move out of the way in the

air blast and leave the gap open. Anyway, until my paint get scrubbed I'm

happy with the close fit.

Albert

PS: I get more gear movement while taxiing than any other time. My

passengers are always saying, "Have we landed yet?"



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effectus(at)rogers.com
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 8:34 am Post subject: Fairing Construction - How to?

We need to press one of those little cameras into action and record the amount of movement on the front gear leg.



Dave Hertner



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Strasnuts

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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 9:11 am Post subject: Fairing Construction - How to?

I bounced mine and figured 2.5 inches was minimum for not chipping paint on the fairings. Mine was built strictly for lower cowl removal. 



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 We need to press one of those little cameras into action and record the amount of movement on the front gear leg.

 

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speckter(at)comcast.net
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 1:23 pm Post subject: Fairing Construction - How to?

I too have thought of closing up the gap.  To test it I closed it with 2

strips of Duct tape running front to back, so the gear leg could push it

open if it needed to for movement.  I couldn't tell any difference in my

cooling. So I left it as it was.



Gary Specketer



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