Sep 16, 2023     Prop. off! - (.75 hour) Category: Propeller

Pulled the propeller assembly in order to remove the plywood spacer needed to establish the gap between spinner and nose bowl

  Aug 28, 2023     Spinner/Propeller - (5 hours)       Category: Propeller

Installed nut plates on spinner bulkhead. Reinstalled propeller. Plywood spacer aft of spinner bulkhead establishes spacing between nose bowl and spinner. The cowling will flow aft to the firewall.

  Aug 26, 2023     GEOMETRY - (4 hours)       Category: Propeller

The forward spinner bulkhead, when mounted has no access from the outside. Accordingly, locating the screw holes on the spinner is a head-scratcher. Plane geometry to the rescue! Using a shop-built compass, and with the spinner removed from the prop. hub, I triangulated the locations, based on the previously-drilled mounting holes at the rear bulkhead. Sixty years later, I'm so glad I paid attention in Mr. Bryant's class!

  Aug 23, 2023     Spinner - (10 hours)       Category: Propeller

Fit spinner to rear bulkhead. This involved mounting and removing the propeller several times, in order to get the correct relationships among crankshaft flange, firewall, nose bowl, and spinner. A 3/8" plywood ring between the nose bowl and spinner establishes the spacing.

  Aug 22, 2023     Metal Prep - (6 hours) Category: Propeller

Scuffed, acid etched and alodined the spinner bulkheads; assembled the rear bulkhead (two pieces)

  Jul 13, 2023     Spinner. 2.0 - (4 hours)       Category: Propeller

Per Van's instructions, I began to fit the spinner bulkhead to the propeller hub. Lots of tracing, trimming, and filing.

  Jul 01, 2023     MOUNT PROPELLER - (1.5 hours)       Category: Propeller

  Jun 01, 2023     Hang On! - (1 hour)       Category: Propeller

Bolted propeller to engine for the first time.