{"id":861,"date":"2011-02-17T17:07:56","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T17:07:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-08T02:33:40","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T02:33:40","slug":"drilled-top-cowl-hinge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2011\/02\/17\/drilled-top-cowl-hinge\/","title":{"rendered":"Drilled Top Cowl Hinge"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been laid up on the couch for the last day and a half with the flu, but I’m starting to feel better, so I’ll push myself as usual :-). \u00a0I started by clecoing the forward top skin to the fuselage so that I could file the firewall flange back flush with the skin. \u00a0This is because the cowl flange butts up against this skin, but it’s quite a bit thicker.<\/p>\n

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I also taped together some pieces of popsicle sticks to hold of the front of the cowl. \u00a0This will allow me to adjust the height if necessary. \u00a0This is roughly 3\/4″ thick.<\/p>\n

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I cut a 44″ long piece of the 1\/8″ hinge material. \u00a0I sandwiched a strip of 0.020″ aluminum between the hinge and the firewall flange and then drilled the hinge to the flange. \u00a0This was slow going since I couldn’t use clecos to keep the holes in the skin and the holes in the flange aligned.<\/p>\n

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I biased the hinge forward slightly so that you wouldn’t see the eyelets between the forward top skin and the cowl.<\/p>\n

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I’ve been laid up on the couch for the last day and a half with the flu, but I’m starting to feel better, so I’ll push myself as usual :-). \u00a0I started by clecoing the forward top skin to the fuselage so that I could file the firewall flange back flush with the skin. \u00a0This … 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-861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firewall-forward"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861","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=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3057,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions\/3057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}