Sat 17 September 2005 |
| I continued with the cowl, the original intention was to sort the upper cowl and then fix the upper / lower join. | 
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| Whilst everything was lined up we marked the center line of the cowl and validated the basic alignment. | 
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| After some more thought - we decided to start the mating of the front sections first. Out of the box the two halves don't mate that well. The lips around the air intakes fold over and prevent the two halves comming together. Some judicious use of the angle die grinder with a cut off wheel quickly removed the worst of the material and the finger band file enabled some of the other larger excesses to be quickly removed. | 
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| The templates worked well and assisted the alignment of the two halves and top / bottom. The slight surprise was that we will probably need a slight gap between the upper and lower. | 
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| The LHS seems to fit fairly well. | 
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| The RHS doesn't work quite as well, the sides are pressed in and riding up. More trimming will be needed. | 
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