Basement? What's a basement? Just joking, but we don't have basements in
SoCal, so we build in the garage and leave the cars on the street where the
worst problem is morning dew. I lived long enough (too long) in northern NY
where I've seen -45 deg F and summer is usually the week of July 4, so I do
understand your situation.
My serious inquiry is: Will you share your AutoCAD file of the A/C exterior?
If so, please e-mail the *.dwg (any version) as an attachment.
Best regards,
Rob Housman
A070
-----Original Message-----
On Behalf Of Chris and Susan Beck
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 6:15 PM
Cc: europa@avnet.co.uk
Subject: Re: TP5&6 Retention Tube?
Hi, John. I agonized long and hard about this very thing. Ultimately, I
built
the tailplanes per the book, taking much care to roughen up the surface of
the
bushes and also making very sure that I dug a good flox groove around the
bushes
once they were set in with the 5 minute epoxy. Every step of the way I made
sure
I was bonding on the actual bushing material, as after setting them in with
the 5
minute and digging the foam away with the Permagrit cone on the Dremel,
you'll
have 5 minute on the bushing material, which will not hold onto the flox
very
well. So far, so good, and I've rowed on them pretty good so far doing the
drive
pin bushings with no problems. Time will tell.
Regarding the Perma-grits, I've cleaned mine with laquer thinner. Works OK,
but
maybe acetone or MEK would work better. They don't get "new" clean, but
better
than they were. Darn tools are the best thing since sliced bread.
On another note, we had the contractor over last weekend to survey our
basement
for installation of some Bilco doors, which are the "old fashioned" cellar
doors
on the outside of the house. It appears that a fully bonded fuselage will be
able
to be extricated through the doorway, based upon a layout I did in AutoCAD
using
the supplied dimensions of the doors and a side view of the fuse.
Installation
should be around the first week in October, so we've got a little time
before we
can start the wings. As I really don't want to try to heat a LARGE two car
garage all winter here in Wisconsin for a few winters, not to mention
scraping
ice off cars and trying to use a snowblower around them, the basement entry
is
the best option. Should work great.
Chris and Sue
A159
LYNJOHN22@aol.com wrote:
> I remember some comments a while ago ( Nigel, Jim Graham, Steve Hagar,
Chris
> Beck ? ) about making a fiberglass tube to contain TP5&6 in the
tailplanes.
> Since I am now in the midst of tailplane construction, could someone
please
> comment on the success/failure/necessity of this approach?
> Also, my perma-grit tools are starting to clog up. Is there a recommended
> cleaning method?
> Thanks in advance.
> John "blue foam everywhere" Kilian A046
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