RE: Phoenix 6 - Start # 2
Having problems with uploads and bellsouth, may have to switch to cable internet. I did some more work here, said I would wait until October, I lied. Keep walking past the shop, have to stop in, then I sit down, and start again.
Drilled beam mounts for 6:32 and BN's. Would use the #6 or #7 allen head screws, but this wood is 35 years old. The epoxy fuse is fine, no hairline cracks, no brittleness. Usually glass fuselage's this old have problems, the other finished Phoenix is that old, but no structual problems.
Drilled pilot holes, then drill to size to accept the 6:32's. I leave a little more clearance at spinner backplate then some other's I have seen. If more right thrust is needed, easy to shim the front of engine at mounting holes. Try to set in so spinner lines up, before final drill. Measure twice, drill or cut once. Picture's showing punch dimple before drill.
Next up when back at this, tank floor and figure firewall or belly mount NG, go with Spring-Aire's. I see a picture of Tom Scott's Wing Mfg. Phoenix V got in here, will leave it. Last picture is engine line-up of the other P-6.
Crank