Cotton Waiex 191 - N191YX

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Re: Cotton Waiex 191 - N191YX

Postby Bryan Cotton » Mon Feb 12, 2018 11:27 pm

Thanks Jake! By the way, cool to see you featured in Sport Aviation.

The bottom hinge hides under the motor mount. We flush riveted a piece of flashing to the hinge, and drilled it to the cowl. This was with the canopy on, and the hinge/flashing pinned to the fuselage. Then we removed it and drilled the holes.
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Time to hack off the canopy bottom:
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Here we have a waxed piece of flashing taped and clamped onto the edge. Next session we will do a wet layup to extend the edge we overtrimmed.
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Re: Cotton Waiex 191 - N191YX

Postby Bryan Cotton » Tue Feb 13, 2018 11:20 pm

In progress:
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Adam's first wet layup:
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dual sticks with sport trainer controls
Prebuilt spars and machined angle kit
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Re: Cotton Waiex 191 - N191YX

Postby Bryan Cotton » Sun Feb 18, 2018 2:29 pm

We trimmed the new glass and it is better. Here is my tooling to transfer the Southco holes to the cowl. If I was smart I would have left them as pilot holes and installed the Southcos later.
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Waiex 191 N191YX
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dual sticks with sport trainer controls
Prebuilt spars and machined angle kit
Year 2 flying and approaching 200 hours December 23
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Re: Cotton Waiex 191 - N191YX

Postby Bryan Cotton » Mon Feb 19, 2018 11:32 pm

Southcos snapped in. I still need to figure out the spring and rubber washer thing. Image
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Re: Cotton Waiex 191 - N191YX

Postby Rynoth » Tue Feb 20, 2018 11:52 am

Bryan Cotton wrote:Southcos snapped in. I still need to figure out the spring and rubber washer thing.


Countersink the fiberglass. Place spring onto southco fastener. Insert through countersunk hole. Attach the retaining washer to the backside of fastener.
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Re: Cotton Waiex 191 - N191YX

Postby Bryan Cotton » Tue Feb 20, 2018 10:08 pm

Thanks Ryan! My Southcos are not flush, just low profile.
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Year 2 flying and approaching 200 hours December 23
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Re: Cotton Waiex 191 - N191YX

Postby daleandee » Tue Feb 20, 2018 11:20 pm

Bryan Cotton wrote:Thanks Ryan! My Southcos are not flush, just low profile.


I'm telling you what ... if you guys keep it up you are gonna run out of things to do, except fly it!

Very cool to watch your airplane come together as a family project over the years. Thanks!

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Re: Cotton Waiex 191 - N191YX

Postby Bryan Cotton » Sat Feb 24, 2018 10:59 pm

We got the left side trimmed and pinned on.
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Next: center hinges.
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Waiex 191 N191YX
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Prebuilt spars and machined angle kit
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Re: Cotton Waiex 191 - N191YX

Postby WaiexN143NM » Sun Feb 25, 2018 12:24 am

Hi bryan, adam,
Looks good keep at it! , the hard part of the cowl is done, trimmed and fit. Hinges, exhaust exit tunnels, prob need to make those a little bigger than the plans say, for more cooling..have you thought about the b model side vents?. You can buy them from sonex. I think about $120 for a pair. Fiberglass & gel coated.

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Re: Cotton Waiex 191 - N191YX

Postby Bryan Cotton » Sun Feb 25, 2018 5:07 pm

Michael, I am considering the side vents, but will likely​ go the cheap route.

Here is my tooling for the top hinge. It is a piece of scrap with a centerline marked and hinge holes transferred. We will put some of the holes in the cowl from the top.
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Year 2 flying and approaching 200 hours December 23
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