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| Tuesday, September 8, 2009 With the deck work beginning to wrap up, I began final preparations in the cockpit for the filling and patching work ahead: cleaning, solvent washing, and taping over various openings to allow filling. I also installed a cardboard and peel-ply "mold" to the large lazarette opening in the aft cockpit bulkhead to support the fiberglass patch. (Later, I'd cut a new hatch in the deck for lazarette access.) |
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Next, I filled the fastener holes with thickened fairing compound, and applied some to the larger holes that needed it to fill them flush with the edge of the ground-out tapered areas. |
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Next, I cut and installed fiberglass patches over the larger holes as needed, with 2-3 layers depending on the situation. This included patching over the old fuel fill opening, the engine gauge holes, cockpit sole-mounted shifter hole, lazarette, poop deck cowl vents, and a reinforcing strip around the edges of a pre-existing patch over the old icebox hatch in the cockpit seat. I left the fiberglass to cure overnight, and with nothing else to do at the moment worked on another project at the shop for the rest of the day. |
 
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