Sunday, June 24, 2012

Some doors and sheet metal.

I decided to work on creating some doors for the project.  As long as I was working on this I might as well build some of the aluminum sheet metal boot cowling and rear window framework.  This will all have to be attached somehow so I had to make some tabs to weld on.  I also had ordered some of the vents from Vans Aircraft that I will place on either side of the boot cowl just ahead of the door which will allow fresh air in the cabin.  I built the doors out of square aluminum tube, made the hinges from some eyebolts that a friend of mine (Alex Frizzel) gave to me since he had some extra and is what many other tailwind builders use as hinges for the doors, and skinned everything with 6061 aluminum from the local metal supplier.