Blind-Nut Access
| If you have trouble seating blind nuts on the inside of firewalls and your hand is too big to fit inside a fuselage, make this tool. You’ll need a 10- to 12-inch 1⁄4-inch-diameter dowel. Epoxy a flat-head screw that’s the same size as the blind nut to the end of the dowel. Let the epoxy cure, and then screw a blind nut halfway onto the dowel screw. You could also put a little epoxy under the blind-nut flange for extra security. Push the blind nut firmly into the hole from the back of the firewall until the barbs are seated. At the same time, insert the engine-mounting screw and the flat washer from the front. Continue with the engine screw while you unscrew the dowel screw from the rear. The front screw will pull in and seat the blind nut in the hole from the inside. Earl Scherzinger, Troy, OH |
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If you have trouble seating blind nuts on the inside of firewalls and your hand is too big to fit inside a fuselage, make this tool. You'll need a 10- to 12-inch 1⁄4-inch-diameter dowel. Epoxy a flat-head screw that's the same size as the blind nut to the end of the dowel. Let the epoxy cure, and then screw a blind nut halfway onto the dowel screw. You could also put a little epoxy under...
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