blaplante
Well Known Member
This past weekend I was under the RV6A under construction and was trying to install the lower cowl bottom hinge pins for the first time after installing the hinges to the cowl. What a pain! As I'm lying on the creeper under the plane I'm thinking ... but this is so much better than lying in oil and gravel at Podunk International. Gotta be a better way.
Question - has anyone tried using the hinge pins - but installing them from the side inward rather than the center outward? It looks to me like the hole would be low on the side, well into the rounded area, and the pin could fold under the outside of the cowl. Ok, points lost for having the pin end hanging 1/8" into the airstream (but is it any worse than the original design of the side cowl pins?). It wouldn't be very noticeable as you stood near the plane. Did searches and didn't find any examples.
Of course, my other option would be to take this all out and put in some more 1/4 turn fasteners...
Thanks!
Question - has anyone tried using the hinge pins - but installing them from the side inward rather than the center outward? It looks to me like the hole would be low on the side, well into the rounded area, and the pin could fold under the outside of the cowl. Ok, points lost for having the pin end hanging 1/8" into the airstream (but is it any worse than the original design of the side cowl pins?). It wouldn't be very noticeable as you stood near the plane. Did searches and didn't find any examples.
Of course, my other option would be to take this all out and put in some more 1/4 turn fasteners...
Thanks!