| Finally beginning to get over the cold/flu. Trimmed the aft end of the lower cowl (where exhaust exits) flush with the vertical |
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| sides. countersunk the screws for the bottom attachment. Widened and evened out the slot of the gear leg and extended the slot |
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| forward to facilitate getting the prop on and off with the 3 bld prop. I'll likely have to go another 306 inches further forward. I'll |
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| fashion an .032 alum plate that will cover most of it. with the plate removed I will be able to make oil changes without removing |
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| the lower cowl!!!!. Remounted the lower cowl (easy without the prop) and final sanded all of the horiz and vertical gaps, and |
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| filed/sanded some of the 'proud' rivet heads flush. All of the rivet seams will get a layer of thin fiberglass tape to avoid the rivet |
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| heads fom working" and showing through the paint. The rest of the day was spent cutting out the oil cover. I got a 'hidden hinge' |
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| but had some difficulty in mounting it. I finally figured out that in order for the hinge to"lift" the oil door the way it is desigend to |
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| that I wol dhave to reposition the hinge. Advice to anybody doing this is to do a test with a coupld pieces of scrap alum to see |
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| where the hinge placement should be in order to avoin binding when opening the door. It's not intuitive and took some |
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| experimenting on my part. I've ordered the Camlocs for the door. tomorrow i'll do the lay-up for the 'retainer ring" so the door will |
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| have a door jam to sit in and a place to rivet the CamLocs. I wanted to do a hidden latch, but there is no way with the sealed |
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| plenum and the sealed air intakes. |
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