October 26, 2008 - Cowl |
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| I riveted the cowl filler door hinge to the upper cowl. Happily, I was able to do it with the Main Squeeze. | ||||||
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An RV-8 builder in my EAA Chapter
recommended putting down a light piece of fiberglass over the rivet line
so I did that. Supposedly it will help prevent cracks in the
paint. Later on though, I would regret it. Just took too much
time filling and sanding to "feather" it into the
cowl.
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| My foam reinforcements on the oil cooler door looked pretty bad so I laid some more glass down, this time using peel-ply to smooth things out. | ||||||
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Some final filling and sanding on the
inlet
doors.
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| I started using this 1/4" thick rubber squeegee to apply the Rage Gold filler. Works great -- saves from having to do a lot of sanding. It's made by 3M; I got it at the local auto paint store. | ||||||
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| The cowl halves. Not sure why I took this picture. | ||||||
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| From another angle. Maybe I took these pictures because I thought I was almost done. If I had only known what was to come! | ||||||
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