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Hey, Rusty.... I use Acetone, as it is
readily available at most hardware stores, etc. If there is foam underneath the
fiberglass, however you can't use acetone, as the acetone will go through the
smallest of pinholes and attack the foam. Does a great job of cleaning any
grease or oils from fiberglass.It evaporates very rapidly. I highly
recommend you wear gloves and not drink it, however. Paul Conner
The whole cleaning thing seems to be a
non-issue. I removed my stainless heat shield stuff, cut out the old
scoop, then sprayed the whole cowl with some Purple Power stuff
that I used on my RX-7 motor mounts before. Spray it on, and
hose it off. Just that simple. The cowl is squeaky clean now, but I
will hit it with some Brakleen after I taper the inside edge a bit
tomorrow. It won't be much of a scarf, just enough to hopefully keep the
cloth from having to make too much of a turn . Fortunately, the
inside of the cowl is unrestricted, so it doesn't matter that it gets a bit
thicker away from the edge. A little extra weight, but not my biggest
problem.
Since I'm off the rest of the week, my overly
optimistic goal is to have the cowl done by Sunday. That won't really
leave much more than break in time, and some tuning, then back to flight testing
(in gliding distance for about 10 hours). I have no idea how I'm going to
do the scoop, but I have to go get the Sonerai project Thursday, so that will
give me about 13 hours of driving to think about it.
Cheers,
Rusty (close, but not close
enough)
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