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
122LL

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