Date:	3-21-2013
Number of Hours:	2.50
Brief Description:	Continue left cowl
- Cut the two cowl pieces as required for the hinge pins to rest - Cut a hinge half for the upper cowl and installed it (photo 1). - Installed the cowl hinge-half with a pin, attached to the fuselage hinge half. Then put the lower cowl on and duct taped it in place. - Used the bright-light-behind-the cowl trick again to locate the holes on the outside of the cowl. BUT NO MATTER HOW CLOSE I GOT THE LIGHT TO THE HINGE HOLES, the STILL didn't align! See photo 2. See the two cleco'd holes? The hole to the right is the predrilled pilot hole that I was shining the light through. The holes with the clecos in them are where the drill bit actually came through, off center! - With 3 holes drilled and clecos in place, After removing the hinge pin I removed the lower cowl with the hinge half still attached. - On the work bench, used the pilot holes to drill through the cowl, then went back and updrilled. - Removed the hinge, deburred the holes, then cleco'd and riveted the hinge in place. Photo 3 shows the end result. I still have to install the horizontal hinge half at the lower cowl.