Cowling strips
Hours: 2.3 | Posted in Cowling & BafflesSpent a bit of time messing with the cable throws on the throttle and mixture, then moved on to the beginning of the cowling tasks. For some reason, I’d been dreading making up these camloc strips, but it wasn’t that bad. I took off the top skin and used the forward edge of it as a template to get the necessary curve. I’ll have three pieces: one pretty straight section in the top center, then one additional section on each side to run to the bottom of the top cowl. The pieces have a hockey-stick shape when laid flat, but they fit nicely to the curve of the firewall, and the angle is correct for the slanted portion at the top. Turned out well, so I drilled the side segments in place. Ran out of time to drill the top center piece, but it’s ready. Worked on measuring off the layout for the camlocs, to see where the divisions of the strips could be without interfering, and marked the strips for cutting. At the spacing I ended up with (3 14/32″), I’ll have 16 fasteners on the top cowl.
