Some more fiddeling with the cowl and the prop ring/spinner gap. I worked on the upper cowl a bit and while there is still a .04 " difference between the top and bottom gap, I'm going to live with it and move on. It looks like the flox fill of the forward seam worked well and I'll have a nice joint there. When Ed Hayden was visiting he pointed out something he had encountered wrt the forward upper fuse. When you fill the fwd rivets on the hinge line (to match the cowl in my case) you end up covering about 4-5 rivets on the seam where the upper fwd fuse meets with the lower fuse. Additionally the work to blend the Cabin cover and the windscreen result in additional rivets being covered, The result is that you're left with a string of rivets and the skin seam that seem out of place after paint. I was already planning on doing some filling and sanding on some of the rivet lines where the ribs are in the upper fwd fuse and there was slight depressions in the skins along the rivet lines, so put a piece of tape down below the joint of the upper and lower fuse and then filled all of the remaining rivets on the upper fwd fuse and the joint between it and the lower fuse. Dean Somke also mentioned that they did this to their plane as well. So after paint the upper portion of the plane may look like its all glass!.
Final Spinner - Cowl gap
Filling and sanding remaining rivets 7 lines in the upper fwd fuse - BEFORE
