Post by jdub on Feb 5, 2017 16:27:41 GMT -6
I hope you guys don't mind if I post here on my Cassutt project. We really don't have a forum anymore and our aircraft are pretty similar in my opinion.
As I stated in my introduction, I also have a Fisher Horizon 1 that I just hung an O-200 on. When I get a few hours on it I'll be looking for a Sonerai 2 so I can get my feet wet with Supervee racing, but ultimately I like the V-Witt and I am a Steve Wittman fan.
Anyway, on to the Cassutt...
I have some vids on youtube under Cassutt #94. I found it as a project while in my last tour in the Navy in San Diego by searching Craigslist of all things. This project popped up in Phoenix so I went there and pulled it home. I'd better post that story on the Cassutt thread that got me here. It was complete except firewall forward and I got to keep my O-200 after a divorce so I had an engine. First flight was Brown Field in San Diego, then I packed it up and moved it here. It currently has 29 hours on it. Sadly, I could not get enough cooling air through the cylinders and that nice yellow paint was cracking everywhere, so to the shop it came as a skeleton. That's where I am now.
This may help someone, or me. There is this cowling build instructable maybe some of you have seen. Unfortunately some things are left out, like how to get all that foam you stick to the seran wrap to a rough shape. I used 8 of the small pink sheets from home depot. Knowing what I know now, I would have cut them into 2" wide strips with either a bandsaw, or in my learning curve, I used a hook knife. I also bought 8 cans to begin with of Loctite spray foam. I did not have good luck with pour foam and I am not buying 5 gallons of the stuff-it is cheaper for the cans. I have used 15 so far. My plug will end up being around $200 in foam when I am done. Oh well, good cause. Then there is the Bondo. There is a reason cowlings are not given away
So how to rough shape when the spray foam dries. I have found a handsaw and a hand held coping saw are working well if careful, then a belt sander with a course grit for final shaping. Don't worry about scratches and some voids-bondo is the next step. There is nothing in the instructable about this and it caused me an hour at least of head scratching. I over nuke stuff a lot.
Waiting for the rest of the foam to dry now headed to the Super Bowl party
As I stated in my introduction, I also have a Fisher Horizon 1 that I just hung an O-200 on. When I get a few hours on it I'll be looking for a Sonerai 2 so I can get my feet wet with Supervee racing, but ultimately I like the V-Witt and I am a Steve Wittman fan.
Anyway, on to the Cassutt...
I have some vids on youtube under Cassutt #94. I found it as a project while in my last tour in the Navy in San Diego by searching Craigslist of all things. This project popped up in Phoenix so I went there and pulled it home. I'd better post that story on the Cassutt thread that got me here. It was complete except firewall forward and I got to keep my O-200 after a divorce so I had an engine. First flight was Brown Field in San Diego, then I packed it up and moved it here. It currently has 29 hours on it. Sadly, I could not get enough cooling air through the cylinders and that nice yellow paint was cracking everywhere, so to the shop it came as a skeleton. That's where I am now.
This may help someone, or me. There is this cowling build instructable maybe some of you have seen. Unfortunately some things are left out, like how to get all that foam you stick to the seran wrap to a rough shape. I used 8 of the small pink sheets from home depot. Knowing what I know now, I would have cut them into 2" wide strips with either a bandsaw, or in my learning curve, I used a hook knife. I also bought 8 cans to begin with of Loctite spray foam. I did not have good luck with pour foam and I am not buying 5 gallons of the stuff-it is cheaper for the cans. I have used 15 so far. My plug will end up being around $200 in foam when I am done. Oh well, good cause. Then there is the Bondo. There is a reason cowlings are not given away
So how to rough shape when the spray foam dries. I have found a handsaw and a hand held coping saw are working well if careful, then a belt sander with a course grit for final shaping. Don't worry about scratches and some voids-bondo is the next step. There is nothing in the instructable about this and it caused me an hour at least of head scratching. I over nuke stuff a lot.
Waiting for the rest of the foam to dry now headed to the Super Bowl party
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