{"id":1028,"date":"2012-06-06T10:11:36","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T16:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2012-08-04T10:30:35","modified_gmt":"2012-08-04T16:30:35","slug":"11-1-6-oil-access-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/06\/11-1-6-oil-access-door\/","title":{"rendered":"11.1.6 Oil Access Door"},"content":{"rendered":"
This entry is part 9 of 17 in the series 11 - Fairings<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

I finally finished the finishing on the upper cowling. Until it’s in shiny white primer, I won’t know how good it is, but it feels like it has the right lines.<\/p>\n

Now it’s time to cut the oil door. The manual has you draw a 6 inch diameter circle and flatten one edge and put a hinge on it. Then a screw is used to hold it closed. I picked up a hidden hinge and recessed push button latch from the RV guys. So the first thing is to determine the location of where the door will go. To do that I installed the upper cowling and reached up inside and marked the inside of the cowling where the oil filler cap is. Then I removed the cowling and drew out the shape of the door. I decided to go with a “D” shaped door.<\/p>\n

Since black marker doesn’t show up on carbon, I used masking tape for the layout.
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I then cut all the straight lines. Here’s the top view with only the curved parts left.
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Then position the hinge and drill the holes before cutting away the door.
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I don’t have a blade narrow enough to cut the curves near the hinge so I drilled a series of small holes.
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To keep it from binding while making the final cuts, duct tape will hold it in position.
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An oil filler access door.
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To make sure it’s in the correct location, I installed the cowling to verified the position.
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Then I covered the bottom of the door and made a flange with 4xBID. Once it was cured, I trimed away the excess leaving a flange (or lip) that the door would rest against.<\/p>\n

Next I positioned and drilled for the recessed latch. Here’s everything held together with cleco’s.
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I’m a bit concerned about the clearance with the J-hinge. It’s REALLY close.
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But I’ll wait and see how much movement the engine has before I make the call on that. Best case is I have enough room. Next best is I could trim part of the hinge. Worst case is having to come up with a different hinge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This entry is part 9 of 17 in the series 11 - Fairings<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

I finally finished the finishing on the upper cowling. Until it’s in shiny white primer, I won’t know how good it is, but it feels like it has the right lines. Now it’s time to cut the oil door. The … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"series":[35],"class_list":["post-1028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-44","series-11-fairings"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions\/1042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}