Tonight I started on the lower cowling heat shield. My plan is to get this applied, then paint the rest of the inside of the lower cowl white to make it easier to detect oil etc.
It took a while to work out the best way to work with the foil. Initially my plastic squeegee wasn’t stiff enough, and it wasn’t getting the air bubbles and wrinkles out. It was also a bit of a weird shape, and I had a couple of false starts getting the right size sections of foil cut and sized.
I ended up finding it easier to work with 18-inch sections at a time, which led to multiple overlapping pieces, but fewer problems with wrinkles and air bubbles.
I got about half way done applying the foil before calling it a night.
