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 Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2013 7:52 pm Post subject: Traveler cowling |
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If you've ever removed the cowling on a Traveler, you are familiar with the screw and nut in the bottom center.
I decided to quit fooling with it and installed a nutplate. It worked for me.
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| Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2013 8:41 pm Post subject: Traveler cowling |
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At least yours has a BOLT in it and the bracket to support it...
The last Traveler I inspected had neither!
--Bob Steward
| Quote: | If you've ever removed the cowling on a Traveler, you are familiar with the screw and nut in >the bottom center. I decided to quit fooling with it and installed a nutplate. It worked >for me.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2013 4:15 am Post subject: Traveler cowling |
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Bob:
Way back, about 12, maybe 15 years back, after my first R&R of the cowling on my AA5, I decided the install and assembly procedure of that nut and bolt were totally inappropriate. Much like that of the pleated vacuum air filter [D9-18-1] screw. The cure was easy and I wrote up the cure and posted it on the Gang. Replace the screw with a fully threaded screw, add two (2) washers [fender washers/wood washers] - One outside and one inside of the cowling for support and using a lock washer and nut make the screw a permanent part of the cowl. This way you don't loose the screw. You do not have to fight with getting under the cowl, get on your back and fight trying to align the screw with the Adel Clamp. The entire job can be done while standing up and just reaching into the cowl and tightening down or loosening a second locknut on the Adel clamp - Simple 
The same is true for the vacuum filter. A full length screw and nut will hold the screw to the firewall and now replacement of the filter is a one person job. AND if you hunt around for a locking wingnut [elastic wingnut/elastic stopnut] the entire job can be done with one person and without any tools in about 5 minutes. But, then again I am a slow worker.
Barry
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"If engineers were so great there would be no need for mechanics!"
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 12:40 AM, <n76lima(at)mindspring.com (n76lima(at)mindspring.com)> wrote:
[quote] --> TeamGrumman-List message posted by: n76lima(at)mindspring.com (n76lima(at)mindspring.com)
At least yours has a BOLT in it and the bracket to support it...
The last Traveler I inspected had neither!
--Bob Steward
>If you've ever removed the cowling on a Traveler, you are familiar with the screw and nut in >the bottom center. I decided to quit fooling with it and installed a nutplate. It worked >for me.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2013 8:49 am Post subject: Traveler cowling |
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I first did that vacuum filter mod in about 1986. I wrote it up in the STAR sometime after that. I change all of the planes I service so that changing the vacuum filter is a 5 minute job and not two people 20 minutes.
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Subject: Re: TeamGrumman-List: Traveler cowling
Bob:
Way back, about 12, maybe 15 years back, after my first R&R of the cowling on my AA5, I decided the install and assembly procedure of that nut and bolt were totally inappropriate. Much like that of the pleated vacuum air filter [D9-18-1] screw. The cure was easy and I wrote up the cure and posted it on the Gang. Replace the screw with a fully threaded screw, add two (2) washers [fender washers/wood washers] - One outside and one inside of the cowling for support and using a lock washer and nut make the screw a permanent part of the cowl. This way you don't loose the screw. You do not have to fight with getting under the cowl, get on your back and fight trying to align the screw with the Adel Clamp. The entire job can be done while standing up and just reaching into the cowl and tightening down or loosening a second locknut on the Adel clamp - Simple
The same is true for the vacuum filter. A full length screw and nut will hold the screw to the firewall and now replacement of the filter is a one person job. AND if you hunt around for a locking wingnut [elastic wingnut/elastic stopnut] the entire job can be done with one person and without any tools in about 5 minutes. But, then again I am a slow worker.
Barry
“Chop’d Liver”
"If engineers were so great there would be no need for mechanics!"
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 12:40 AM, <n76lima(at)mindspring.com (n76lima(at)mindspring.com)> wrote:
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At least yours has a BOLT in it and the bracket to support it...
The last Traveler I inspected had neither!
--Bob Steward
>If you've ever removed the cowling on a Traveler, you are familiar with the screw and nut in >the bottom center. I decided to quit fooling with it and installed a nutplate. It worked >for me.
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