Wood around the cabin

[rdwater]

I have all newly varnished, newly made pieces of wood to install around the cabin of a '46 BD-12D. The pictures from the tear-down show duct tape wrapped around several of the pieces! Most are attached to the fuselage with screws, though four pieces are not. How were these other four pieces originally attached? Were all pieces covered to protect the fabric? Thanks for any help. Bob Waters ([email protected])

[captjon]

Bob:

My BC12-D was done similarly, but with what looked to be masking tape. You can see a little of it on my restoration pages at http://www.taylorcraft.info/tcraft/proj039.jpg and http://www.taylorcraft.info/tcraft/proj100.jpg

I believe the common practice is to use seam tape and glue the wood pieces down with the tape and "polytack" or your covering method's equivalent. Do make sure that you use an epoxy primer first though that will not be dissolved by the solvents in the glues and the other covering materials.

Most of the surface rust on my fuselage was found under the areas where wood and metal had direct contact and the primer should prevent that as well.