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Fri 23 September 2005

I continued all day with the baffle trimming. The main area was the 3 rear pieces. Again I started with cardboard templates and again a good chunk was needed off the top of the baffles.
Lots of trimming later - still much more to go (as I found out). The bump in the middle makes things slightly more challenging.
I also found doing one side at a time helped for some of the final work. By the end of the day I had the top / bottom cowls on along with all the baffles in place. The next step is to trim / mark for the 3/8 spacing to the cowl.

Also noted was the lack of space between the fuel divider and the cowl material - more investigation needed.


Dad spent a gentle day doing some lathe work. This is a 'super-dimple' - 2" wide.
The first cut caused a bit of deformation of the surface - so a little tool trimming was needed.
The revised version - seemed to work fine.
Then went down the canopy stiffeners with some neat dimples.
Carl Morgan