February 11, 2009 -  Canopy and Cowl

The spacing between my forward skin and canopy skin was a little tight so I bought the canopy home and trimmed the canopy skin about 1/16".  I also did a little more filling and sanding. 
   
I took this opportunity to install the canopy handle mounting block.  I match-drilled the block using the cabin frame -- holes were drilled previously -- as a template.  It was much easier doing this in the basement than it would have been on the airplane.  I still need to drill a hole in the handle end for a cotter pin. 
   
 Aft, looking forward. 
   
I had tried installing these Sunday only to discoverer they interfered with the control mechanism.  So I bought them home and did a little trimming.  
   
I finally got around to installing the camlocs back into the top and bottom cowls.  This took a few hours, actually.  There's 48 or so of them. 
   

The cowls don't photograph well because of the gloss black. 
   
 
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