{"id":1283,"date":"2013-12-02T04:38:12","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T04:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2013-12-02T04:38:37","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T04:38:37","slug":"1283","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/?p=1283","title":{"rendered":"Red Goo."},"content":{"rendered":"

5 hours.<\/p>\n

A shortish day, after Thanksgiving weekend. \u00a0But decent. \u00a0 I got the pax side restraint system involved in addition to the pilot side crotch strap or “anti-submarine” restraint, as it’s called. \u00a0That took longer than I thought because of the number of times I had to hop in and out of the plane to find washers and other hardware and tools.<\/p>\n

But now they’re both in. \u00a0This unflattering photo is just to show that both seat belts are hooked up.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_1687\"<\/a><\/p>\n

So I went on to the red goo. \u00a0 I’ve been putting this off, because of my usual aversion to non-solids, but it was finally time to RTV the baffles. \u00a0 Squeezing a tube of red RTV into all the places it has to go is really hard on the hand muscles, especially when you have to get the nozzle into nooks and crannies now blocked by FWF equipment.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_1685\"<\/a>So I’m not the best RTV’er in the world, but I think the bases are more or less covered – a bead running along the baffle meterial, and anywhere light gets between the baffle and the engine. \u00a0 OK, maybe not everywhere, but everywhere I could get the stuff in there.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_1686\"<\/a>Oops. \u00a0Didn’t get around the right magneto blast tube. \u00a0I’ll have to get that later.<\/p>\n

But I was sure to get RTV into all the gaps between baffle and oil cooler, because that’s kind of important, and as for other leaks, we’ll have to see what happens to CHT’s in flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

5 hours. A shortish day, after Thanksgiving weekend. \u00a0But decent. \u00a0 I got the pax side restraint system involved in addition to the pilot side crotch strap or “anti-submarine” restraint, as it’s called. \u00a0That took longer than I thought because of the number of times I had to hop in and out of the plane […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[68,5],"tags":[60,54,63,61],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1288,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions\/1288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}