Brief Description: Lower & Upper Cowl and Wheel Fairings
I continued to work on sanding the lower cowl and getting everything smoothed out. Not very exciting just a lot of sanding. I completed the sanding and placed just a small amount of filler in some areas where the Smooth prime would not be good to fill the cowl imperfections so I used Evercoat to get these deeper but small imperfections filled. The lower cowl work took quite a while.
I then grabbed the wheel fairings and started working the left one. By the time my autumn sunlight was fading away I was pretty much completed with the left forward fairing,,,,but that was it for the day.
I next went inside the shop and decided to get working on the oil door. I had ordered some rubber seal from McMaster-Carr that happened to come in today. The seal gave about a 1/16 inch boarder around the door for paint clearance. It is VERY flexible!!! I cut 45 degree cuts off the rubber flange to allow the bead to go around the corner without bunching up.
I had already placed packing tape around the area where the door would sit. I then taped plastic food wrap on top of the packing tape. I set the door in place and clecoed it, then wrapped the plastic wrap around the rubber seal and gathered it in the middle.
I felt the trough around the door was really to wide and deep for using just micro so I mixed a fairly thick batch of milled fiberglass with epoxy in a cup and proceeded to fill in the trough. I used popcicle sticks to level the filler. I will probably use micro to fill the imperfections of the glass filler when it sets....or perhaps Superfil which I enjoy working with and does a great job!
