snoopyflys
Well Known Member
I have been working off and on with my pink cowling and I am getting closer to being done. My latest hurdle comes after fitting, riveting and epoxying in the piano hinges that hold the top and bottom halves together. When I put the halves together with the hinge pin, one side crept open a little causing it to have about 3/32nd gap near the front and tapers down to 1/32nd or less towards the firewall. I am struggling with determining how to fill this in to reduce the “grin” or leave it be. I have thought about trying to use packing tap to cover one set of hinges but there’s not quite enough high tab area to hold the tape in place while the epoxy sets. I have looked at Mr Horton’s posts on extending the cowl edge build up methods (which have worked well for me to date), but I just can’t seem to adapt his methods here. Thought I would ask here to find out how others may have solved this inadvertent “grin” issue and keep the halves from binding together.