REFLECTOR: Cowling attachment

[John Dibble]

So my camlocs where the cowl attaches to the wings will be a problem if
I redo where the cowl mates the fuselage like yours?

John

Scott Derrick wrote:

> Where my upper and lower cowls mate with the fuselage I have no
> screws.
> The cowls have the standard lip that normally goes under the fuselage
> and normally has the nut-plates to receive the screws, but my plane on
> the fuselage side there is the fuselage flange and an inner flange.
> the gap between the fusalge and inner flange snuggly receives the lip
> of the cowls.  I do have 3 screws on the flat side pieces of the top
> and two on each side for the bottom where the cowls attach to the
> wings. I was going to replace those with some type of captive fastener
> but haven't done it yet.  The fasteners would have to be fully
> retracting, meaning they wouldn't protrude through the mating side of
> the flange when disengaged because the cowls have to kinduv slide into
> position the last couple inches.
>
> Scott
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: REFLECTOR: Cowling attachment
> From: Don Johnston <numa at comcast.net>
> To: reflector at tvbf.org
> Date: 02/08/2012 10:19 AM
>
>> Has anyone ever tried dzus or camloc fasteners for the upper and
>> lower cowling?
>>
>> Just wondering if there's a compromise between the panhead screws
>> and the totally invisible piano hinge method.
>>
>> -Don Johnston
>> XL-RG
>>
>>
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