Robin McDonald wrote: > I would be very interested, (but unfortunately it is a bit far to come & > see) how do you attach your turtle deck & front deck to the fuselage & how > do you finish or hide the join. > Are there any others who have done the same & how do you finish off the > join line. > I have had a look at various sites but can't find any photo's or much > information
Maybe you haven't seen http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford/kmlfd.html , where I show how I did that. One thing I would do differently is wrap that piece of plywood with a layer of glass that goes all the way around from inside of the deck to the outside of the deck, really tying the hinge mounting pad (the plywood) to the deck. Another thing I'd probably do is something like Phil did with a lip hanging down to keep water out (not that I have a problem with that), but then once that overlapping lip is finished, tape over it with packing tape and build up a "joggle" so that the seam disappears. That way you have you overlap and it's hidden. I woudn't make it a half inch though, as it'd be prone to breakage when installing or setting it down on something. An eighth of an inch ought to do it. That's how my canopy's back edge is done, such that when it closes no air can leak out on top, and no water can leak in. I didn't do that to the sides of he canopy where it sits on the longerons because I think it'd be all chipped up by now. Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
