Hatch latches and canopy mounting

[Bill Glaze]

Bob:
Sounds good.  Looking forward to the article in the K-Factor.  Will it 
have pictures?  (I only read books with lots of pictures!<G>)  Bill Glaze

Bob Kane wrote:

>My El Nino has completed it's third season. The canopy
>is held in with 2 dowels in the front and a 4-40 screw
>in the back. Originally the front dowels were carbon
>rods into glass/balsa, and they wore rather quickly. I
>replaced the carbon tubes with a birch dowel, opend up
>the holes and glued some 6-32 WellNuts (cut down to
>roughly 1/4" in length) into the hole. The rubber
>WellNuts eliminated wear and help dampen noise. The
>chin cowl on this plane is held in place with 4-40
>steel pins in the front and Hatch Latches in the rear,
>both going into plywood. I find both the front holes
>and the holes for the hatch latches wear due to
>vibration.
>
>I have been so impressed with the wear-free
>performance of the dowels in the WellNuts, I am
>mounting both the chin cowl and canopy of my new
>Temptation using this method. The next K-Factor will
>have some pictures of the chin cowl mounting system,
>the one after that will have pictures of the canopy
>mount.
>
>If you are not familiar with WellNuts, they are kind
>of a rubber version of an expanding drywall fastener.
>I remove the part with the machine nut molded in to
>save some weight since it is not used. 
>
>=====
>Bob Kane
>getterflash at yahoo.com
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