08-06-06

 

Once I drilled all the new holes #40 and then #30.  I clecoed the Cowling into place and decided to Unitbit the inital 1/2" hole

through both the Cowling and CamLoc strip on the top of the lower Cowling and the bottom of the top Cowling on both sides

and install a few CamLocs.

 

Once drilled, I removed the Cowling and needed to drill the two holes to mount the CamLoc receptacle.  I realized it would be

better to drill the 2 #30 mounting holes before Unibitting the center hole strictly for ease of locating the outside holes.  Once I drilled

the two holes using the jig received with the CamLocs I realized the Unibit had walked big time.

 

 

I'm now at the mercy of the tolerances built into the CamLoc to not affect the alignment of the Cowling.  So I installed the 4 CamLocs.

 

 

 

 

 

Installed the receptacles.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shown here is how much you can pull the Cowling away from the Fuselage skin just from pushing down right behind the Spinner.

I measured this and it was .098 ! !  NOT GOOD!  This is due to the built in tolerances of the CamLocs.

 

 

Forging forward and hoping once all CamLocs were installed that the spring pressure on 31 of them would be enough to hold the Cowling firmly

into position.

 

Words of wisdom here.  If you can, please wait to final riveting the lower side and bottom Cowling CamLoc strips into place until you have riveted

all CamLoc receptacles into place.  Riveting them to the plane was time consuming and a bit harder.

 

 

Here are the cool little pliers you can rent or buy from MilSpec.  I borrowed Jims to install the srcrews into the washers.  Man they should

do this at MilSpec.  Its kind of a joke to send them not installed.  It took a whopping 2 minutes and you wouldn't need the pliers at all.

 

Very easy to squeeze.

 

 

Then you just slide it through the washer on an angle.

 

 

With all of them installed the Cowling free floats and can move about .025 

Man I just can't see doing this any other way.  This is totally first class and rock solid!

 

 

 

 

Check out that Spinner clearance!  It is exactly .200 exactly what I removed from the rear of the Cowling!

 

 

 

 

 

 

I had a slight amount of overhang on the spinner.  I removed most of it with my Dremel belt sander and then sanded it to the line by sticking

multiple pieces of self adhesive backed sand paper to my table that formed a circle and twisted the spinner to sand it perfectly flush.

 

 

 

 

THE FINISHED PRODUCT!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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