Gang,

During a recent cross country flight, the latch to the oil filler door on the top of the cowl departed the aircraft.  Upon inspection my door latch was installed with two rivets...to replicate the original installation would mean a bunch of work to refinish and repaint the door.  We opted to fabricate a new latch and glue it on....worked great until I hit 250 KIAS today and the glue gave up - lots of pressure on that door.

I'm sure for normal ops the glue would be just fine, but the pressure created by the higher airspeeds is too much.  Does anyone have any suggestions on a "non-invasive" fix.   We can take the door off and re-rivet it...but that failed after 270 hours of flight and I'd like to find a better solution.  And, NO Greyhawk, I won't slow down.... ;)

Thanks!

Barry
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