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Cowling continued:

Finally another post and the last before I start covering. Building the cowl sounded like a good idea at first - "No worries, a couple of evenings and it will be done!". Well, probably 40 hours work and a month later and here we are. In the photos for this post the cowl is pretty much complete - just needs a final sanding. The engine is not shown in these photos.

The bottom half of the cowl is held to the motor box and firewall with three screws. The top half is held on with 4 magnet pairs, which enables me to take the cowl off for needle adjustment, etc. In the first few photos you can see the ignition lead screwed to the firewall. Some of the pics a little later on show the choke and throttle servos mounted. The square cutout is for the tach, along with the radio switch, ignition switch and ignition "On" light. Pictures with the top half off reveal the magnets that hold the top half to the airframe. The magnets are quite strong...

Next up - the cowl with the engine installed.