One of our web followers, Mitch has a Don Smith B17 that has
been to Top Gun for 3 years now. After last weeks report, Mitch e-mailed me
and after a bit of a tap-dance he stated our cowls were horribly wrong.
After saying a few words under my breath, I realized he was
right-on correct. Holy Crap.........how did we go this wrong. This isn't
like us at all!
The trail is old and cold enough that we don't know what
happened.
Guess it doesn't matter, it just needs corrected. The
problem is the cowls got molded with almost straight sides and a very sharp
radius at the front. What the cowls really were was a long sweeping radius
with a very rounded look.
So now for tonight. First we spent time talking about the
above and just what we are going to do. We decided to make a new mold next
week at Rick's. That will give me a little time to draw some scale gauges to
use while turning.
For tonight, we took a air operated die grinder and removed
all the excess metal from the weed eater motors. This only saved us approx.
1/4 pound per motor . But now they look more like airplane motors, and we
believe it will help us mounting cowls and everything else needed under the
cowl
-- Gary Himes