More frustration than progress today dispite the time spent. I am really looking for a good and tight fit betweeen the cowl and the fuse, I had it all sanded basically flush and then when I mounted the hinge and the hinge pins and clecoed and drilled, everything seemed to pull away from the fuse. I had it sanded to a 1/64 gap, but now with it drilled and clecoed it's more like 1/16", _*(&^%#^%*&. It looks like I'm going to have to go back and do some gap filling similar to the doors when I'm finished with the mounting. The plans that Will James provides are not nearly as detailed as the Van's plans. Will tells you WHAT to do, but not HOW to do it. I've been spoiled by Van's plans that tell you both. Since talking to Will and another -10 builder I'm aware that there is VERY little extra material at the front of the cowl, so I'm trying to be carefull to ensure that there will be enough material for flush horizontal seams. It's very tight. Next step was "leveling" the bottom edge of the top cowl. this ammounted to making sure that I could lay a straight edge across the front of the cowl with no gaps. then using the bottom front corners of the upper cowl, I placed a straight edge along both sides and placed the aft end on the lowwer rear corner of the upper cowl. I then trimmed/sanded the sided for a 'straight' edge. this is the edge that will be used to 'level' the upper edge of the bottom cowl. there's not a lot of extra glass so I'm trying to be very careful. the problem is that every time, you take the bottom off and back on, all of the reference marks seem to change. !$#2@$1@%^$&
