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Now that Paul Dye has found a source for undersized hings wires, I'd probably go with the original hinge design and use one of the undersized wires. As Paul suggested, get the range so you start with one of the smaller sizes, adn once it get too easy, move up a size. etc.
As for my airplane, I have fasteners (across the back of the top cowl) ... which look surprisingly like the ones on a Corsair II :cool: |
Hi all
I am at the same point i.e. skybolts or the horizontal long hinge pins thingys. Does anyone have a picture of any of the examples - Looks like I may settle on skybolts but not 100% sure. Lot of the local guys moaning about the long hing pins thouogh. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated |
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can someone provide a link for the Milspec's
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Hate the Hinge
I currently have a RV-9A with only 1/4 turn fasteners for both the top and bottom cowl. Love it and to me it looks good. both cowls on or off in less than three minutes.
My previous plane was a GlaStar and it had 1/4 turns across the back of the top cowl but also had two hinges on the side of the cowl. I absolutely hated trying to get the hinge pins in. It was tough no matter how you did it. Yep, tried graphite, tried tapering the pins and nothing I did worked. It sucked. In fact it was a significant reason not to pull the top or bottom cowl. It is obvious some people have no problems with hinges and some are more caring about the visual impact of the 1/4 turns but give me 1/4 turns any day. |
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skybolts
I only have 5 hrs. of flying but have removed cowl for inspection several times and several times before flight. I really like my skybolts. We built a 3 piece cowl so cooling and intake boots, and close fit behind spinner do not need to be messed with when removing top half. Spacing was kept at about 3 inches for good fit. It is a very task removing cowl. Ron
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Thanks for the replies. I guess the two fasteners look very similar on the airplane, both are adjustable, etc. So with the Skybolts including the tabs premade, it looks like they have the advantage right now...
Any more thoughts and/or comments? |
Milspec for sale?
Don't mean to hijack the thread, but Jim Wright, if you're not using the ones you have, I'd be interested in 17 of them.:D
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