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Mounting an ESM Cowl? - 4/3/2012 11:29 PM   
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Status: offline 		I would be interested in how you mounted your cowl. I'm hoping several of the ESM birds are the same. I have the T-6 Texan ii. You are supposed to go in and mount some 1/2" square ply blocs inside the fuselage where you are drilling the mounting screw holes for the cowl. Even removing the nose gear, it appears to me, there is no way a normal (and sane) adult can get his hand in there to glue any blocks were they need to go. Soooo, if your plane was like this, what, and how, did you do it. thanks.

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RE: Mounting an ESM Cowl? - 4/4/2012 1:11 AM   
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Status: offline 		Id just glue those square wood blocks on the front of the firewall. Mark them somehow....such as paper attached to fuse with tape and slip cowl on and have the paper marked where the wood blocks are and when laid over the cowl, drill there.

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RE: Mounting an ESM Cowl? - 4/4/2012 2:31 AM   
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Status: offline 		It didn't come with blocks, just small ply plates; but yes, the only thing I can think of is to make some long blocks I can try to fit. The "firewall is a tapered round edged blunt nose. Got to figure out how to get something in there for support.

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RE: Mounting an ESM Cowl? - 4/4/2012 2:32 AM   
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Status: offline 		can you take a few pics...id have a better idea of what your talking about then

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RE: Mounting an ESM Cowl? - 4/4/2012 3:41 AM   
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Status: offline 		Take it as a given that the front interior of the fuselage were the support plates are suppose to go is unreachable. The cowl overlaps the nose about two inches up to the blue. Only thing I can think to do is glue some long blocks the front of fuselage face. Will mean screws are about 2" in from cowl edge; but only thing I can think of.

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RE: Mounting an ESM Cowl? - 4/4/2012 4:43 AM   
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Status: offline 		I have used the following method successfully on a couple of ESM cowls:

Position the cowl and drill a small hole (1/16 or 1.5mm) all the way through.
Drill a similar small hole in the little ply square they supply
Remove the cowl
Find a piece of stiff wire about a foot or so long and thin enough to go through the hole in the fuse
Thread the wire through the hole and out the wing seat.
Thread the wire through the ply square and secure with a collet or something
Pull the wire back which should pull the ply square into place
When happy try the same with some glue on the plate

It takes a bit of fiddling, however as mentioned at the start, variations of this technique have worked for me.

Terry

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RE: Mounting an ESM Cowl? - 4/4/2012 5:01 AM   
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Status: offline 		Thanks, yes I got it, think that will work; knew there had to be a way.

Another question - how do you cut small rectagular holes in the fiberglass fuselage for inserting things like fake antennas, etc that need holes about 1/4" x 1". Only thing I can think of is drilling a lot of small holes. do you want to go for two out of two

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RE: Mounting an ESM Cowl? - 4/5/2012 3:38 AM   
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Status: offline 		For a longer cut I use my Dremel with a cutting disk. For smaller cuts a hobby knife sometimes works. I've also used a junior hacksaw blade with the bit with the retaining pins broken off. Small files can be useful too.

Hope this helps

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RE: Mounting an ESM Cowl? - 4/5/2012 3:49 AM   
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Status: offline 		Your suggestion for the cowl worked great. Thanks

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