After a week away on a business trip I got back to working on my Sonex project today. I'll be home for a week but then going on an overseas holiday for 3 weeks so I'll try and get as much done as I can on the cowling during this week. I was hoping to get it completed before going away but that seems unlikely. Anyway, I started working on the top hinge installation today. As shown in the picture, the way I'm doing this is with the cowling off and held together with duct tape I'm installing the hinge from the outside first. this proved to work well for the rivet holes on the aft flat part of the cowling but when moving the hinge to the inside I noticed the forward holes on the curved part were out of alignment. I expected this to happen but not as much as they are. I should have only drilled the aft holes on the flat part, then moved the hinge to the inside and then do the forward holes on the inside. Luckily with fibreglass this is not a big issue, I can easily patch up those forward holes and redo those.
