The making of a Cowling
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Here Bob and I (mostly Bob) are making the bottom half of the cowling. We are using the ML cowling mold. It is not as hard as I had been worried about, but it did take some time and patience. The plys would seperate around the compound curves and be a problem. But in the end we got it.

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Here is a close up of the cowling, the aeropoxy did not smell as bad as I thought it would.

 

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