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Bart,
Today I brought up the subject of the
thread on the hinges at the shop where I built my plane. As luck
would have it, Orin was there this afternoon. While we all looked
carefully at my hinge installation on my cowl and agreed that they look very
secure, Orin made a valid point about the bonding properties of hysol when it
gets hot. I've used a heat gun to get hysol-bonded things loose on
more than one occasion.
While the sides of my cowling don't
get very warm where the hinges are, I agree that putting a rivet at
each end of the hinges would be a good insurance policy. In my case, I
also have four screws in the front of the cowl behind the prop spinner
and I used screws along the top of the upper cowl where it meets the
fuselage. I feel quite confident that with these in place, my cowling
won't slip the surly bonds.
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