I was always having a problem getting the fresh vent air door to stay open a small amount. After a while it would blow full open. I could never get the friction on the bolt just right. The difficulty was holding the bolt head because […]
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A Simple Vent Handle
To add a handle for better grip of the fresh air vents I drilled a 4mm hole and used two spark plug caps. These are the caps we remove from the Rotax NGK DCPR8E spark plugs. They have an internal 4 x .07 thread. Drill […]
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Repairing Worn Cowl Hinge
At around 500 flight hours I was getting wear on the cowl hinges, one of my end “eyes” had worn through and would no longer support the hinge pin. The thought of replacing the hinge, riveting and the associated painting was not appealing to me. […]
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Spring Load Oil Door
I normally leave my oil door open for cooling, one day the wind blew it closed and I missed that it was not latched on the pre-flight. Just as I was lifting off the door started flapping, I had enough runway left and landed so […]