Here are some shots of building the ACS spinner - Sorry, no shot of the fwd
bulkhead though.
I had to cut 3/4" off the length and made a new prop blade cutout template
smaller than the original. Note that 3/4" coated pressboard was stacked
and clamped to be used to mark the cutoff that can be seen in the picture.
The forward curve of the prop cutout was serially drilled and hand filed,
the straight lines were carefully cut with a air-powered dremel using a cutoff
wheel. Parts of the cutouts were saved to close the area at the back of
the spinner behind the prop. The ACS backplate is seen in the fore ground
and has less useless metal than the Lancair one seen in the background.
The spinner/backplate are being drilled.
Note the doublers have been mounted and cut to fit the inside curve (right
side of pic). A aft prop close out can bee seen to the left with thin
aluminum tabs countersunk riveted to the closeout so it doesn't flop around when
spinning at 2710 rpm, full power.
I will take pix of the bulkhead next time the spinner is off. BTW, it
took sanding and 6 powered polishings to get the manufacturing "spin
tooling" marks out of the spinner.
Scott Krueger
AKA Grayhawk
Lancair N92EX IO320 SB 89/96
Aurora, IL (KARR)
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