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<\/a>These\u00a0 photos show the application of West Marine resin \/ colloidal silica mixture to the upper cowl in preparation for riveting the hinges and oil door in-place.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This week a stainless strike plate for the oil door camlock latches was fabricated, as well as a backing plate for the Cleaveland Tool hidden hinge. These\u00a0 photos show the application of West Marine resin \/ colloidal silica mixture to the upper cowl in preparation for riveting the hinges and oil door in-place. …<\/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":[10,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rv-10-build-project","category-section-47-spinner-and-cowling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833","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=2833"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2906,"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833\/revisions\/2906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>Backing plates for the oil door hinges and the latches were also fabricated from .032″ aluminum pieces.\u00a0 The plates were bonded to the fiberglass substrate with resin adhesive, followed by cleces in place during the curing process.\u00a0 The whole door was then sprayed with heat resistant aluminum paint.\u00a0 Finally all the parts were fastened together with AN426A (soft) rivets.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>Here the oil door is dry fit in cowl opening.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>SuperFil was applied to even the profile differences between the cowl and the door itself.\u00a0 After this dries, all parts will be sanded smooth and prepared for further process of cowl fitting.<\/p>\n<\/a>Here is the interim result ready for prime\/paint.\u00a0 Note the push buttons are slightly recessed.\u00a0 Depending on the final paint job, I may address making these more flush with the surface.<\/p>\n