Taylorcraft Baffling

[Tailwind]

I'm looking for some "good" engine baffling. Anyone have any for sale?

[TonyL]

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Hi - I can send you some flat pattern templates. Bear with me a couple of days. My hangar is submerged. Hope to be able to get to it tomorrow. It was still in 3 ft of water. Two ways to go on this. send me an e mail to [email protected], and I'll send you copies of firewall fwd. Remember the squares are one inch increment. measure the square divide by 1 and that's your enlargement rate. take it (dwg) to staples have them enlarge it to the result of your division that should be the full size. Measure the squares, if its 1 inch you did it. Aft baffle I can pattern for you. It's inside the hangar. a couple of other tribesmen are waiting also. If you need bend orientation, I can help. depends on model. L2 is different than BC12D. Cowling determines pattern og baffle. Hope I can help Happy Holidays - TonyL

[Larry Lyons]

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Tony, no hurry but I would love a set of those templates. I have the old ones off my BC but they are in terrible shape and having your patterns will save me a bunch of work. I will send you an email. Larry

[TonyL]

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Hi Larry - send me an email to [email protected], wanted to post and attach to the forum. Don't know how. But I can reply and attach to your email. I'll check again before I head out. If it's there, I'll send it. If these don't work out, I can always trace the patterns on my templates made from the 1946 BC12D TonyL

[Larry Lyons]

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Email on its way Tony. L

[CFLEEPIO]

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Hi Tony,

Happy Holidays from sunny South Africa, it was 27C here today thats 80.6F for you guys. If at all possible could you mail me a copy as well. I have two BC12-D restorations under way and no baffles found within the project boxes.

I have also sent an email to your address. Many, many thanks in advance.

Best Regards,
CFLEEPIO

[Hal]

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Hi Tony,
Could you just post scans of the pages to the group? Then anyone could just print them.
Thanks alot,
Hal

Hi - I can send you some flat pattern templates. Bear with me a couple of days. My hangar is submerged. Hope to be able to get to it tomorrow. It was still in 3 ft of water. Two ways to go on this. send me an e mail to [email protected], and I'll send you copies of firewall fwd. Remember the squares are one inch increment. measure the square divide by 1 and that's your enlargement rate. take it (dwg) to staples have them enlarge it to the result of your division that should be the full size. Measure the squares, if its 1 inch you did it. Aft baffle I can pattern for you. It's inside the hangar. a couple of other tribesmen are waiting also. If you need bend orientation, I can help. depends on model. L2 is different than BC12D. Cowling determines pattern og baffle. Hope I can help Happy Holidays - TonyL

[TonyL]

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I'd love to, except don't know how to attach it to the post. I did send them to some of the tribe. Dealing with some issues, trying to send to those I missed this morning. If you don't get it send me another email. TonyL

[blakecarl]

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Tony - Thanks for the baffle templates. I made a pdf file which includes all the scans you sent me--with the exception of one that appeared to be a duplicate--and have attached. I have also attached the jpeg files you sent me in case there was something lost in the process of incorporating them into the pdf. You just never know with these digital processes.

Blake

[TonyL]

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Thanks Blake. Sorry Just got home. They look good. If you want, I can send the aft baffle dwg. alot bigger since, I made them into templates. also the flat patterns for the 2 fwd baffles that take ram air in. These I duplicated from trashy ones. I made a form block of plywood. micarta is the primary formblock tool. I'll try to show bends and orientation after the aft one. Be patient with me. Can't get to the hangar. It's still under 3ft of water. TonyL

[Ron Coleman]

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About the baffling..An important baffle goes under the engine. It runs from the nose all the way to the accessory case and seals the air from bleeding out the sides of the engine up around the cylinders. The baffle is formed so that there is 3/8" to 1/2" clearance between the baffle and the bottom of the case. Unhappily, not all A65 cases are the same shape and size on the bottom of the case, so the baffles are not the same. I can post pics if necessary. Serial numbers might identify which cases have the highest standoffs. Someone here should be able to tell you.
Also, to be effective, the baffles should fit to about 1/8" of the fins. The fins are so fine and close together air would rather go out around them. The only things that makes the air squeeze through the fins are tight fitting baffles.

have fun
RonC

[rammon3]

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Blake, If you could post the aft baffles as a PDF, that would be awesome!

[TonyL]

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You're right Ron. I haven't taken mine out yet. have to remove the carb and induction system. It wraps around the front cowling. I have the A-65. I'll be making patterns for it and for my friends C-85. The L2M Cds have a set c/t prewar tcrafts and the A65. Forrest sells the cds forgot the price. By monday, I should have that pattern for the A65. The C85 needs the cyl. Can't layout without them. Please note the front baffles left and right attach to this one. I'll see if I can take an image with my camera this week end. I provided a start, need to get access to my hangar get the rest out. TonyL

[TonyL]

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I'm back on track. Had 4'ft of mud water in my hangar. Had to do damage control. Lucjy Rammon. The aft baffle dwg is a one piece gilberty. Need someone that can scan it. I can mail one copy to that tribe member. I did math correction to copy it, so it's full size. I glued it to alum sht as a flat pattern. Have to fit to cyl contour. Need to trace all other flat patterns from original baffles. left, right, front, rear, bottom, inter cyl. The first set provided were, like I said from (Firewall Forward ) book. Next is aft one piece baffle (Gilberti).I'll check to see the cost of scanning. If someone can scan, I'll send them the full size. please post. I'm disorganized so, if someone needs a specific pattern, please post and I'll facilitate in that sequence. Try to prevent any delays or hardship for them. TonyL

[barnstmr]

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C.A.P. offers this complimentary scan of Gilberti Drawing G-118 Rev. A to assist here. However, you will see that this drawing does not define the baffle details. This drawing merely shows the felt seal installation and a modification of the EXISTING rear baffle with the 9.5 inch dimension across the mid-section for crankcase clearance.

As the current STC holder, C.A.P. normally considers public distribution of its drawings to be piracy. In this case, the drawing is provided by C.A.P. to the Taylorcraft Forum users with permission to freely use for reference only. It contains a reminder that the drawing does require FAA approval through the applicable FAA regulatory procedures.