30 December 2017

MTV-12-B Spinner

I was making a spinner template last night so that I could start fitting my cowling. I didn't really think about it last night, but as I was laying out the board I had an issue with fitment. (don't mind the non-concentric circles, in the quasi-center of those dots are the real layout points)

The issue I had is that I started with the outer circle (15").


Thinking that I was just mis-remembering the spinner diameter I grabbed the spinner and laid out another line.

That went fine and everything bolted right up to where it should have been. But something still did not feel right. I went over to the show planes website and low and behold, the cowling is designed for a 15" spinner. So that is a bummer. I am not sure where the mix up was, but I think it all started with me assuming that all MTV-12-B spinners were 15".

I guess I have my first parts mix-up.

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