I tried repairing these NACA vents and the repair has broken. I liked one of
the
ideals for fixing them from Remi, but the time and effort would have been to
much. I'm lazy and want to go flying. I looked at what Roddy did and I liked
his ideal, but my knob was to far gone.
I drilled out the knob and took a 10-32 bolt (AN4-6) and using resin and fibers
glued the bolt into the knob. I then riveted a nutplate onto an AN-960 washer.
I had to grind the edges off to fit in the hole inside of the NACA vent.
That was glued too. I also ground down the nutplate to about half its normal
length. I left a shoulder on the movable part of the vent where the bolt makes
contact so that it would not blown out once I opened it in the air.
The one question I have? Is there enough air pressure on the movable vent to
force
it open?
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