Fish's Cozy MKIV
  • Welcome
  • Preparation, Visits, Tips
    • Preparation
    • Visits
    • Tips and Tricks
    • Special Cases - Interesting Fixes
  • Chapters 3-15
    • Ch 3 Practice
    • Ch 4-7 Fuselage, Main Gear
    • Ch 8 Head Rest, Heat Duct, Seat Belts
    • Ch 9 Main Landing Gear
    • Ch 10-12 Canard & Elevators
    • Ch 13 Nose >
      • Ch 13.1 Nose gear, Brakes, Landing Light and Skid Plate
      • Ch 13.2 Nose Top & Canard Cover
      • Ch 13.3 Relevant Later Work
    • Ch 14 Spar
    • Ch 15 Firewall
  • Chapters 16-25
    • Ch 16 Controls
    • Ch 17 Trim
    • Ch 18 Turtleback/Canopy >
      • Ch 18.1 Turtleback
      • Ch 18.2 Canopy
      • Ch 18.3: Latch, IP Cover, Misc
      • Ch 18.4 Lift and Locking Canopy (Version 1)
      • Ch 18.5 Electric Lift Canopy (Version 2)
      • Ch 18.6 NACA's for Engine Cooling
    • Ch 19 Wings
    • Ch 20: Winglets/Rudders >
      • Ch 20.1 Winglet Fabrication
      • Ch 20.2 Winglet Attachment
      • Ch 20.3: Rudder Fabrication
    • Ch 21 Strakes >
      • Ch 21.1 Strakes: Through "Top Hats"
      • Ch 21.2 Strakes: Bottom Skin through Prep for Top Skin Final Bonding
      • Ch 21.3 Strakes: Top Skin Final Bond through Fuel Tank Seal
      • Ch 21.4 Strakes: Misc Completion of Strakes
      • Ch 21.5: Strakes: Wing/Strake Fit Check
      • Ch 21.6: Strakes: Post Cure Tanks
    • Ch 22: Electrical >
      • Ch 22.1: Electrical: Inst Panel
      • Ch 22.2: Electrical: Firewall
      • Ch 22.3: Electrical: Warning Lights
      • Ch 22.4: Phase I Testing
    • Ch 23 Engine and Cowling >
      • Ch 23.1 Firewall and Mount
      • Ch 23.2: UL 520is Initial Integration
      • Ch 23.3 Cowling
      • Ch 23.4 UL 520is First Start
    • Ch 24: Seats, Armrests, Fairings >
      • Ch 24.1: Fairings
    • Ch 25: Finishing >
      • Ch 25.1 Canard
      • Ch 25.2 Interior
      • Ch 25.3 Fuselage/Strakes Bottom
      • Ch 25.4 Fuselage/Strakes/Canopy Top
      • Ch 25.5 Wings
      • Ch 25.6 Assembly in Primer and W&B 1
  • Ch 26: Hangar
    • Ch 26.1 Assembly and Fitting
    • Ch 26.2 More Punch List Stuff
    • Ch 26.3 Inspections
  • Ch 27: Ground Tests, First Flight and Ph I Testing
    • Ch 27.1: More Ph I Testing Stuff
  • Ch 28: Post Phase I Improvements
  • Ch 28.1: More Improvements
  • Ch 29: IFR

Chapter 25: Finishing  (Note: I'm planning to fly Phase I in Primer)


I've decided to get started on some finishing work while still working on strakes because it's winter (Dec 2016), and I can use cold days for sanding between warmer days of making micro and spreading.  It also gives me a diversion as I plan for finding a very small leak in the Right Strake Tank, and getting the strake leading edges just right.  I know finishing is goiing to take a long time, so I'm starting the learning curve early.  I received some great tips from Izzy Briggs by phone for this Chapter!
I'm using a different format for this Chapter by breaking it into sub pages according to the portion of the Cozy I'm doing finishing work on.  This should hopefully keep the pages from being so long, while making it a little easier for a reader to probe the tree structure of the Chapter based Table of Pages to more easily find what they are interested in.

My plan is to use the following sub page structure for Chapter 25: Finishing, based roughly on the order that I think I'll be taking them on.

     Canard
     Interior
​     Fuselage and Landing Gear
     Strakes
     Wings/Winglets
     Blending (wings to spar, wings to strake) 
     Misc
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