Cowl
With the cowl all drilled, I got out all of my fiberglass and epoxy materials. I used some small 3oz. cloth to reinforce the aft edge of the top cowl where I had to remove some of the honeycomb material. I also reinforced some sections up at the spinner flange at the front where I had to do some serious grinding to get things to fit. I’m glad I just ground those parts super thin for fit. That way, all I had to do was build up from behind to reinforce, as opposed to completely cutting the flange off and having to reattach it. I also mixed up some filler and build up some parts around the air inlets where I’m planning on doing some grinding to make some edges match.
While all of the epoxy was curing, I pulled the camloc strips and began marking and cutting out the unneeded material between attachment points. I decided to reduce the width of my camloc strips by 1/8″ after I got the scallops cut out.
UPDATE 7/25/07: After all was done and I’m flying, I would not cut the “scallops” out of the side lower camloc attach strips again. When installing and removing the lower cowl, the camloc in the cowl get stuck in the valleys of the attach strips. Also, when installing the lower cowl, the top aft corner always gets stuck in between the scallops. It is a bit of a pain. It would be better to just have the camloc attach strip on the side one straight piece with fewer edges for things to get caught on.
