More Hydeout cheek cowls

[Gordon Anderson]

Amir,
 
Thanks for this advice, sounds like the way to go!
 
--Gordon

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Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 2:32 AM
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Subject: Re: More Hydeout cheek cowls


I forgot, if you have disposable plastic syringes, you can fill it with
the epoxy/micro mixture,
clip the tip at an angle at the diameter you want and apply...may go
over it with a small spatula
or dip your little finger in a bit of 99% alcohol and run it over the
fillet......do a practice run before
the real deal if you haven't tried this method before.
 
Amir



I would take the flange off.......then in order to match the contour of
the cheeks' base
to the fuselage, put some stick back sand paper on the fuselage, where
the cheeks 
will be glued, then move the cheeks back and forth or up and down to
sand to shape.
120 grit should do....
 
As for gluing, you can tack glue with CA or 5 minute epoxy, then come
back with a 
fairly dry mixture of micro balloons and slow cure epoxy and make a
small fillet all
around....Once dry, use a small diameter dowel and wrap sticky back sand
paper
on it to sand the fillet.....should be easy and the fillet adds about 2
grams  to each
cheek....about 1/8" diameter fillet should do.
 
Before gluing, scuff the the areas that glue will be applied to with
220ish
grit paper lightly just to take the shine off, wipe with alcohol and
smell some glue ;-)
 
Take care,
Amir
 
 

 

All, 

I'm building a Hydeout and its about finished. One of the last things I
need to do is glue on the cheek cowls. I could use some advice on how
others did this. The cheek cowls have about a 1/2" flange. The fuse
sides are not perfectly flat and I'm dot sure how to hold them in place
as they dry. So here are a few questions for those of you who have done
this:

1.) What glue did you use? 
2.) Did you keep the flange or cut some of it off? 
3.) How did you hold it in place as the glue dries? 
Thanks for your advice! 

--Gordon 

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