mike mcs repair
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chugiak AK
just thought I'd pass along my tricks for quickly doing very neat installs on eyebrow fairings
hopefully someone will get something from this and not make the ugly mistakes i did when I was learning many years ago....
first step, leave lifting eyes OFF wing for now.
do NOT buy premade eyebrow fairings they rarely fit your installation, instead paint two 6 X 24" pieces of aluminum.
then place a piece of tape on wing leading edge about where outboard edge of fairing will end up, make it nice and strait/square/perpendicular to wing like you want fairing to end up.....
now take a ruler and every so often measure and and mark a line to touch windshield, write distance next to line
after you finish, take tape off wing and transfer it to the pieces you made and painted above and plot those distances (minus the thickness of rubber piece, 3/8")
then connect points with lines and cut out
paint to stripe color(if needed) before gluing on rubber with contact cement..
to do a nice garmin antenna install remove suction mount and cut a hole in fairing like this,
paint fairing if needed and mount.. then tape off & silicone
Atlee lifting eyes are fun unless you do it this way...
leave them off, install the eyebrow faring drilling & screwing the top side at least....
remove fairing.
install lifting eye.
then make a paper and tape pattern, starting by putting paper over where fairing will be and poking through at the screw holes you just drilled.
take this paper template off once you are happy with it and screw it to the faring using the screw holes... and mark where to cut opening for lifting eye.
sorry forgot to take picture of finished product.....
hopefully someone will get something from this and not make the ugly mistakes i did when I was learning many years ago....
first step, leave lifting eyes OFF wing for now.
do NOT buy premade eyebrow fairings they rarely fit your installation, instead paint two 6 X 24" pieces of aluminum.
then place a piece of tape on wing leading edge about where outboard edge of fairing will end up, make it nice and strait/square/perpendicular to wing like you want fairing to end up.....
now take a ruler and every so often measure and and mark a line to touch windshield, write distance next to line
after you finish, take tape off wing and transfer it to the pieces you made and painted above and plot those distances (minus the thickness of rubber piece, 3/8")
then connect points with lines and cut out
paint to stripe color(if needed) before gluing on rubber with contact cement..
to do a nice garmin antenna install remove suction mount and cut a hole in fairing like this,
paint fairing if needed and mount.. then tape off & silicone
Atlee lifting eyes are fun unless you do it this way...
leave them off, install the eyebrow faring drilling & screwing the top side at least....
remove fairing.
install lifting eye.
then make a paper and tape pattern, starting by putting paper over where fairing will be and poking through at the screw holes you just drilled.
take this paper template off once you are happy with it and screw it to the faring using the screw holes... and mark where to cut opening for lifting eye.
sorry forgot to take picture of finished product.....
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