Title: Cowl fitting
Continued working on the cowlings: 1. Marked, filed, and sanded around the front edge of the cowling inlets, to make the top and bottom halves match better. 2. Used a Dremel to cut off the marked edge of the lower cowl where the upper cowl overlapped. Block-sanded the edge to the pencil line. 3. Mounted the upper cowl to check the fit. (It fit well enough to remove the support strap and let it be attached only by the lower Skybolt fasteners and the forward clecoes. This is a big psychological step -- it's the first time I've been able to actually see what the final installation will look like...) 4. Positioned the lower cowl as tight as possible, then duct-taped the cowl to the fuselage. 5. Marked the aft edges of the lower cowl where the attach-hinge rivets will go. 6. Drilled and clecoed the lower cowl to the hinges. 7. To get an idea of how the horizontal row of Skybolt spacing will work out, I began clamping the fastener plates to the lower cowl. I laid them out with 3.5" spacing, the same as the spacing along the firewall. It looks pretty good that way, but I need to explore whether adding one more fastener to each side will make things look funny, 8. Marked some areas to sand on the side and front of the lower cowl. Removed the Skybolts and the upper cowl, filed and sanded the problem areas, and replaced the upper cowl, The lines are beginning to look pretty good. 9. Filed the inboard intersections of the inlets to make the cowl edges match.


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