{"id":1814,"date":"2016-10-02T09:46:32","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T13:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/?p=1814"},"modified":"2016-10-02T09:49:47","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T13:49:47","slug":"cabin-cover-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/?p=1814","title":{"rendered":"Cabin Cover (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The weather forecast called for beautiful skies and temperatures over the weekend, so I enlisted Eric’s assistance in starting to trim and fit the cabin cover to the fuselage. The idea is get everything aligned properly, then finish the interior metal painting.\u00a0 This way scratches produced during the fitting process will be reduced.<\/p>\n

\"imgp7040\"<\/a>Faint scribe lines are on the fiberglass mold from the factory, but difficult to see under most conditions.\u00a0 I added electrical tape along the edge for a better visual reference when rough cutting with a Dremel tool.<\/p>\n

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\"imgp7043\"<\/a>\"imgp7047\"<\/a>The process is easy, but takes time.\u00a0 Rough cut near the scribe line, then hand sand until smooth.\u00a0 Then fit on the plane and continue sanding until everything lines up perfectly.<\/p>\n

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\"imgp7051\"<\/a>Here is a closer look at the rough out process.<\/p>\n

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\"imgp7052\"<\/a>A long wooden dowel is attached to a 22″ Great Planes sanding block.\u00a0 Eric guides the dowel along the opposite end while I smooth sand and get closer to the the scribe line.\u00a0 The dowel extension will approximately make the surfaces parallel on both sides.<\/p>\n

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\"imgp7055\"<\/a>\"imgp7057\"<\/a>The first rough fit shows additional material needs to be removed. Sand and refit until alignment is correct.<\/p>\n

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The weather forecast called for beautiful skies and temperatures over the weekend, so I enlisted Eric’s assistance in starting to trim and fit the cabin cover to the fuselage. The idea is get everything aligned properly, then finish the interior metal painting.\u00a0 This way scratches produced during the fitting process will be reduced. Faint scribe …<\/span> Continue Reading →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rv-10-build-project","category-section-43-cabin-cover"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1814"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1817,"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions\/1817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}