Lindy
12/20/2009
This morning I finished drilling the spinner to the bulkheads. Nothing special here since the initial holes were already drilled. I put a total of 15 holes in the back plate, and six in the front bulkhead.
I can't remember why I took this picture...but here it is anyway!
Then I removed the spinner to finish filing and sanding the cut outs. Lots of small cuts to make it nice and smooth. I also sanded a good 1/4" off the rear of the spinner with a bench sander. Came out nice!
The spinner then went back on the prop so I could start the gap plates. I used .032 safety wire to get the basic shape down in the same fashion I did to cut out the prop blade slots. Then I transferred that shape to paper and cut it out to make any additional adjustments.
Using the bandsaw, I cut three gap plates from some .063. I'll need to put a bend in each one, and sand them all to their final shapes, then rivet them to the backplate, and make a tab for some screws and nut plates.
Probably won't be much work getting done this week with Christmas coming, and the amount of shopping we have left to do...ugh.
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