“No bird ever flew nonstop from New York to Tokyo, or raced 15 miles high at triple the speed of sound.                                                                                                   
  Birds do something else.   They do not conquer the air; they romance it..”


Peter Garrison

Jur's RV7 Aircraft Factory
3497 hours
and counting

Continued laying up glass on the custom joggles that connect top to bottom cowl at the front.
Added 5 more layers which made it to 8 layers in total. This may be a bit exagerated but I read there is a lot of stress on these connection points so I wanted it to be as strong as possible.
There is nothing behind it so it's not hurting anywhere except for some extra weight in the front.
With the catto prop, the front is too light anyhow so some extra layers of epoxy won't make a big difference.

I used the rest of the epoxy to mix up some microballoons (westsystem 407) to fill up some gaps and covers the rivet line of the brackets.

The microballoons of West System has this dark brownish color which is a bit weird. it becomes whiter when sanded. That's proably the idea.

Also roughly filled up the gap at the front

And some gap at the left air intake. as the top cowl is still covered with tape, this is a good moment to do this.

Right side filling gaps.

On the inside all layers of glass have been applied and covered with Peel Ply

It dried for about 24 hours and then I took it apart.
The joggles are rough in shape and will need to be cut in size at the end.