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The vertically aligned fasteners on the side cowl to the nose bowl were only made for earlier coupes . Don't know to what exact serial number. I think to remember to read that it was found that the extra fasteners on the nose bowl were leading to cracks. So they left them out. Hartmut To: [email protected]; [email protected] From: [email protected] Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 11:12:12 -0500 Subject: Re: [ercoupe-tech] cowl That's interesting. I don't have any vertical fasteners on my 415C ?? I was thinking that was the model that Linda has. Why and where are there vertical fasteners? BTW: I also have a sequence that works best....thought it was just me. Dan Caliendo Ercoupe Mach 0.14 3658H On May 17, 2009, at 12:25 AM, Linda Abrams wrote: Darick, Everyone seems to have their own method/sequence of Dzus fasters. I can always tell when my A&P has been into my plane, because when he has re-fastened the Dzus, the corner one always gives me trouble! When I open & close the cowl myself, they don't get stuck. FWIW, the opening sequence that works on my plane (pilot side) is to start with the 2nd from right, on the bottom row. Then the right hand one, then move toward the left. In closing it, I also have to start with the 2nd from the right, or the rest get hopeless! Then the right hand one. When 3 bottom ones are done, only then do I start closing the vertical row, starting with the top first. If the bottom left corner isn't the very last one, it doesn't behave. HTH, Linda __________________________________________________________ 1. cowl Posted by: "[email protected]" [email protected] dgundy170 Date: Fri May 15, 2009 4:41 am ((PDT)) <snip> Are we missing anything? Does everyone else have this same experience? Do we just have to keep loosening and tightening bolts in a different order to get things to fit? Is there someone in the group who has a magic sequence to make this easy? Frustrated-after-7-months-of-not-flying, Darick _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail® has ever-growing storage! Don’t worry about storage limits. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Storage?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_Storage1_052009
