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Initial upper cowl trim around the spinner and air inlets underway.
Initial lower cowl trim around the spinner and air inlets underway.
Oil filler door cutout complete.
Nose gear leg cutout complete.
Initial top and bottom cowl mating. Still have some work to do sharpening the left side of the spinner cutout before drilling the halves together.
Initial top and bottom cowl mating. Still have some work to do sharpening the left side of the spinner cutout before drilling the halves together.
Upper cowl hinge rivets drilled out and hinges & spacers discarded. I managed to slightly oversize four holes in the process, so it’ll be “oops” rivets to the rescue.
Skybolt has my Camloc kit in stock, so I’ll be picking it up at their parts counter tomorrow.
Cowl halves are officially out of the house and in the garage for fitting. Yeah, it’s trivial, but it felt like progress for a minute or two.
Upper cowl trim lines outlined in Sharpie.
Lower cowl trim lines outlined in Sharpie.
Spinner front bulkhead bolts torqued and safety-wired.
Spinner plate assembly and front spinner bulkhead nutplates riveted.
Yes, there’s a little oopsie on one of those holes (a locating magnet failure to accurately locate that pre-drilled hole), but the nutplate isn’t compromised, so I’m not concerned. Onward!
Spinner is done and clecoed in place for the moment. The manual says to install it now with the permanent screws, but a few pages later (in the cowling instructions) it has to come off again, so best to leave the screwing until later. So to speak.
Left empennage gap cover bent and clecoed in place.
Not much to report today – just yours truly torquing prop bolts. All done and safety-wired now.
