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Fitting Naca duct to nosecone
Jumpy Guy - 18/5/10 at 08:40 PM

I have a Naca duct to fit onto my nosecone.

HOw best to fit the straight duct into the bent profile on the nose?

When i offer it up from the inside, there is a gap of up to half an inch in the middle...

Suggestions? Its an ABS Naca duct and a fibreglass nosecone...


UncleFista - 18/5/10 at 09:00 PM

Ask Jon Ison ?

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[Edited on 18/5/10 by UncleFista]


Jumpy Guy - 18/5/10 at 09:35 PM

OK, put another way, what do i use to fill the gap?

I have a book on car bodywork, and it refers to 'bondo'- whats that then?

Is it some kind of filler? what best to use?


iank - 18/5/10 at 09:41 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Jumpy Guy
OK, put another way, what do i use to fill the gap?

I have a book on car bodywork, and it refers to 'bondo'- whats that then?

Is it some kind of filler? what best to use?


American book then, bondo is a brand name for body filler which like hoover has been adopted as a generic name for all body filler in the US.


Jon Ison - 18/5/10 at 09:46 PM

Many moons ago I nearly got chucked out of the Dyson plant when I asked about "hoovers".......


JoaoCaldeira - 19/5/10 at 07:54 AM

Remember that your nose has hisg and low pressure points, though if you want max air, you have to tinker a bit...

Worth reading an article by this guys - not exactly this, but a very related one - where they use a water Magnehelic pressure gauge to prove that you'll have a very high pressure point right in the begining of the nose top apex, then a low pressure one, and another high pressure one right near the windscreen.