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Greetings,

I am in the process of mounting the nose gear door on my 360 fast
build.  The directions call for structural pop rivets to hold the
hinge to the fuselage.  I don't particularly care for pop rivets
and I also don't like to have hinges that I cannot remove (hassle
for painting around and later maintenance).

All along I thought, "no problem, I will just use screws and put
nut plates on the back side."  Well, no luck.  I drilled the first
hole and looked in the foot well to see where it came out -- there
was no hole!  The skin on the fuselage is thick enough (approx. 1/2"),
that the drill bit ends up inside the core.  Now I see why the pop
rivets :)

I am not ready to give up yet.  I know some of you have used screws
for this hinge.  I have a picture of Duane Hitchcock's 320 and he
used screws.  The big mystery for me is what do I do about nuts on
the back side?

Any help out there?


Thanks!

Dan
360 MKII SFB
Ft. Collins, CO
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