{"id":503,"date":"2013-02-03T16:57:31","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T16:57:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-12T16:15:34","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T16:15:34","slug":"installed-cowl-nutplates-and-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2013\/02\/03\/installed-cowl-nutplates-and-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Installed Cowl Nutplates and Started Shaping Inlets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I added a couple of #8 nutplates to the inside faces of the cowl inlets. \u00a0The needed to be set forward of the aft edge about 1\/2&#8243; to clear the inlet seals. \u00a0You can also see that I used some epoxy\/flox to fill the hole that I&#8217;ve been using to align the cowl up to now. \u00a0The plans specify three nutplates here, but the plans also don&#8217;t specify a plenum which results in substantially more force trying to separate the cowl halves. \u00a0With the plenum, there&#8217;s far less force trying to lift the upper cowl, so two nutplates should be just fine.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20130203\/IMG_0735.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_0735.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The upper and lower halves of the cowls don&#8217;t perfectly align at the outer edges of the inlets, so I mixed up some epoxy\/micro and applied a fairly thick coat. \u00a0Most of this will get sanded off, but I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;ll still have to add another coat.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20130203\/IMG_0736.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_0736.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the right inlet. \u00a0I managed to scrape away more on this side before the epoxy started to set up, but there will still be lots of sanding.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20130203\/IMG_0737.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_0737.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I added a couple of #8 nutplates to the inside faces of the cowl inlets. \u00a0The needed to be set forward of the aft edge about 1\/2&#8243; to clear the inlet seals. \u00a0You can also see that I used some epoxy\/flox to fill the hole that I&#8217;ve been using to align the cowl up to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2013\/02\/03\/installed-cowl-nutplates-and-s\/\" class=\"excerpt-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firewall-forward"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3521,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions\/3521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}