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11-07-2010, 06:20 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Kansas
Posts: 171
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Show Us Your Cowl Pin covers or method to secure pin
Hey Guys,
I'm thinking there are lots of methods to either fab a nice looking cowl pin cover or secure. Show us your Pin Covers!!
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11-07-2010, 06:28 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Jacksonville, FL
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Do a search on cowl pin cover.....
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11-07-2010, 08:13 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Lubbock, Texas
Posts: 645
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Cowl Pins
Check out www.aerosportproducts.com
They have some really nice cowl pins for both RV-7 and RV-10's
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Russ Daves
Lubbock, TX
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11-07-2010, 08:24 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Detroit, MI
Posts: 1,587
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FWIW
I insert my pins from the rear. There is some extra length and it's bent 90 degrees for about 3/4". I release the 1/4 turn fasteners on the sides, pull out on the sides of the upper and lower cowling and insert or remove. The bend keeps it from migrating aft. Nothing shows, nothing in the airstream. I lube the wire with hard soap.
I have a loop of wire with a handle as a removal tool and a fiberglass pusher for insertion beyond the line of the seam. I keep them in the airplane in case I have to remove the cowl away from home.
I would do it again.
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"We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can be free! We can learn to fly!" -J.L. Seagull
Paid $25.00 "dues" net of PayPal cost for 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 (December).
This airplane is for sale: see website. my website
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11-07-2010, 08:50 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Roma, Italy
Posts: 510
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A very simple and neat solution is making 3/4 of an O with one pin end.
You screw two screws on a wood bar and then insert between them one of the pin ends. Then pull the other part of the pin to form the O.
Insert the pin in the hinge and make a hole on the cowl. Installa platenut.
Gently bend inwards the last portion of the pin, to accomodate for the cowl profile.
Next week some photos.
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RV4 IO-320, Catto 3-blade, Christen, I-BILT
Flight time: 1 hour
Status: test flights
www.rv4.it
ROME, Italy
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RV9A O-320 D1A, Hartzell C/S prop, slider, I-PRCA
Flight time: 350 hours
Status: SOLD
http://nuke.rv9.it
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11-07-2010, 11:11 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 5,685
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My covers
The first photo was taken when I WAS INSTALLING THE COWL IN 1999. The covers are made of 0.016" 2024-T3. They are each mounted with 3 #8 flat head screws and platenuts. Originally the platenuts were all mounted directly on the cowl fiberglass inner flange and the two outside fastener locations still are but after a couple of years of operation one of the inner locations gave out and I had to install those two inner fastener location platenuts (one for each cover plate) on a backing plate of 0.032 2024-T3 aluminum. No problem since then. The second photo was taken on 6-22-2007 when I was experimenting with inlet size reduction plugs. The inboard mounting screws for each coverplate go through both the upper and lower cowl interface. The cowl outer surface is countersunk and the cover plate holes are dimpled.
Bob Axsom
Last edited by Bob Axsom : 11-07-2010 at 12:17 PM.
Reason: Corrected erroneous statement
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11-08-2010, 09:12 AM
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Location: Utah
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11-08-2010, 10:47 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Martinsville, IN
Posts: 2,326
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Randy Pflanzer
Greenwood, IN
www.pflanzer-aviation.com
Paid through 2043!
Lund fishing Boat, 2017, GONE FISHING
RV-12 - Completed 2014, Sold
427 Shelby Cobra - Completed 2012, Sold
F1 EVO - partially completed, Sold
F1 Rocket - Completed 2005, Sold
RV-7A - Partially completed, Sold
RV-6 - Completed 2000, Sold
Long-EZ - Completed 1987, Sold
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11-08-2010, 11:56 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Delaware, OH (KDLZ)
Posts: 4,194
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dav1111
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The Rv-7 cowl pin covers aren't on the web site just yet, but I've seen them for both the 7 and 7a.
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11-08-2010, 01:30 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Roma, Italy
Posts: 510
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Here is the photo. Photo is ugly, cowl still not finished and painted.
But you get the idea.
And this is an ugly detail of my nearly finished cowl
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RV4 IO-320, Catto 3-blade, Christen, I-BILT
Flight time: 1 hour
Status: test flights
www.rv4.it
ROME, Italy
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RV9A O-320 D1A, Hartzell C/S prop, slider, I-PRCA
Flight time: 350 hours
Status: SOLD
http://nuke.rv9.it
Last edited by Camillo : 11-08-2010 at 01:37 PM.
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