All that weight you added to your plane by messing with the dust
cover. It'll slow you down. You are going to need all the speed you
can get if you fly with me.
Maybe I'll just recover the whole dust cover with carbon fiber and do away
with the Finesse.
Gary
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 7:38
AM
Subject: [LML] Burned dash cover "My
Solution" for stopping this
All,
The sun burn spots on my glare shield has bugged
me since I finished my airplane.
Most of our airplanes have these.
(if you you are flying them Gary Edwards...)
I tested many
materials and found something that works.
My glare shield is covered
with black "Ultra Leather" which is a premium quality man made leather.
It is very tough stuff and looks beautiful until you focus your canopy
glass in the right position and you will quickly burn a spot in it..If
Left for a few minutes, it will burn a hole in it..
I have tried
to be careful and watch where the sun is but there will come a time when
the sun is focused perfectly and it will burn in 5 seconds.
Dang!!!
Anyway, I found that carbon fiber will not burn in this
scenario. I believe this will work on any type of fabric not just
Ultraleather.
So, I made two patches for my dust cover ( approx 10" x
6.5") using the light weight bidirection weave carbon fiber material.
One for each side of the dust cover where the burn marks have been have
been congregating. (The patches are kind of like you would see on the
elbows of a sport jacket. These serve 2 purposes. One, they cover up the
burn marks I have now and they hopefully will prevent new ones from
happening.
The procedure:
I just covered my glare shield with
saran wrap and tape to protect if from the paint. I laid 2 patches
(slightly larger than the final ones) made from light carbon weave cloth
in position on the saran wrap on the curved glare shield. I then painted
them with high temp black Krylon barbecue paint and let them dry.
(several coats especially on the edges. That makes them black to match
and it also stabilizes the fibers so they wont fray out especially on
the edges. Additionally it also keeps the pieces to shape while you cut
them to the specific size using a paper pattern. They are also formed to
the shape of the dust cover. I then just used upholstery spray spray
adhesive on the back of each ( now hardened with paint) carbon fiber
patch and glued them down. Some of the glue bled through the weave so I
masked them off after gluing them to the dust cover and gave them
another light coat of high temp paint.
Shazam, heat shield
complete..
See attached pics..
My test pieces held up well
when I tried to burn a spot with a magnifying glass.
I hope it works
as well now I have it on my glare shield..
Best,
Randy
Snarr
N694RS (sporting new virgin dust
cover)
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