I'm building an RV-3B. Its cowl is much like the RV-4 cowl, with the cheeks. As I work on the lower cowl, I've been using these aluminum tabs, clecoed to the bottom cowl, as a convenience during installation. My procedure now is to:
Hang a bungee over the engine mount,
Raise the cowl up to the fuselage,
Supporting it with one hand, while
Snapping the bungee on with the other.
Then I can fasten the cowling to the fuselage when it's convenient.
This works pretty well. But now I want to make the arrangement permanent and get rid of the metal bits. My question, is how should I replace these in composite?
I don't want to just make green tabs with a drilled hole as that would be crude. I'd like to have something that has a nicely rounded loop to clip the bungee to, but haven't come up with the sort of idea that's appealing.
Anyone?
Thanks,
Dave
Hang a bungee over the engine mount,
Raise the cowl up to the fuselage,
Supporting it with one hand, while
Snapping the bungee on with the other.
Then I can fasten the cowling to the fuselage when it's convenient.
This works pretty well. But now I want to make the arrangement permanent and get rid of the metal bits. My question, is how should I replace these in composite?
I don't want to just make green tabs with a drilled hole as that would be crude. I'd like to have something that has a nicely rounded loop to clip the bungee to, but haven't come up with the sort of idea that's appealing.
Anyone?
Thanks,
Dave
