Brief Description: Upper cowl firewall hinge epxoxied to the cowl
I was concerned about the cold temps affecting the cure of my epoxy (temps in hangar fown to 40 at night) so I brought the cowl home with me yesterday along with most everything Id need to epoxy on the hinge and shims and then rivit. Well.........I forgot the rivits! Anyway, I made batch of epoxy with cotton flox and cabosil and applied to the shims and the hinge and then clecoed in place. I was going to counter sink first so that I could rivit after. Since I didnt have the rivits, I will just let the epoxy set up and countersink and rivit at the shop. If you notice in pic one, The bigger holes in shims are 3/16 and made for extra epoxy grip The extra holes in hinge are from first cowl fitting and wont have rivits. Instead I can use them for grip holes with epoxy too. I used the left over epoxy mix on the cowl surface where the voids are.
Firewall upper cowl hinge and spacer epoxyed and clecoed
Upper cowl with hinge epoxyed on
Left over epoxy applied to areas on surface in need of filling
