1st thing today, I replaced the upper cowl to see if the 'solution' for homing the pin into the hidden hinge worked. UREKA! it did! |
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REmoved upper and lower cowl, sanded the front edges of the lower cowl and applied duct tape (release) to the forward edges |
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of the upper cowl. Then inserted the hinge pins to bring them together and applied a 6 ply lay-up to the forward seam of the |
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upper and lower colw. When this is cured, I will trim it to an approproate ehight 1" to 3/4" above the lower cowl and then install 2 |
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#8 nutplates on each side which will allow me to bring the front of the spinner ring relatively flush. I expect that there will be some |
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Super Fil work to do to even out the joggle, but tihs is getting much closer. After this is done the next step is to install/flox ing the |
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