Today I finished Engine Turning all the major baffle sections on the engine that I’ll be doing.  Here we have the lower left aft baffle just completed.

I set the lower left baffle in its approximate place and then prepped the lower right aft baffle for Engine Turning.  The lower right baffle is patient zero—the one that had the scratch that drove this entire Engine Turning craze!  As you can see in the upper right hand corner where I buffed it out.

A few hours later: Voila! the lower right aft baffle is complete with its Engine Turning as well.

And another shot of the all the major aft-facing baffle walls Engine Turned.

As I note in the video, using the method I used the 6061 aluminum didn’t turn out as spiffy keen as the front 2024 baffle panels.  They still look very presentable in my opinion, but they certainly show a lot more rings in each individual circle.  That being said, the offending scratch is virtually gone and these things are still functional… and will be somewhat obscured in the engine compartment, so I’m done worrying about them and pressing forward!

I documented my Engine Turning journey in this mini-documentary (haha… ok, it’s just a video!).  Enjoy!

Next I’ll be bending the aft lower baffle segments to get them mounted into place.  The upcoming “wings” on each outboard side of the upcoming installed lower “shelf & skirt” baffles may very well get Engine Turned as well, but that’s as far as I’m going on the engine baffles…

But how about those outboard CS spar Titanium firewall sections?  Hmmm?