The front deck was then laminated to the glass strips, one at the firewall with the joggle and the other at the instrument panel with the instrument panel bulkhead attached. After curing, the whole assembly was removed from the mold and the mold was removed from the fuselage. In this photo, you can see the reinforcing strips, the instrument panel bulkhead and the temporary particle board bulkhead which is still attached to the fuselage. Here is the completed front deck assembly, still a little rough around the edges and ready for sanding and touch up. The instrument panel bulkhead will be cut out later for mounting the instrument panel.
Next step is to build the header tank.
I plan to make the header tank a seperate assembly and make both the front deck and the tank removeable. Please E-mail me for questions or suggestions about the decks. Back to Home page.