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fitting a nose cone
peterparsons - 24/3/08 at 06:29 PM

As above, how have you fitted and fixed your nose cone into place.

any sugestions welcome, any photos a great help also.

Cheers


Guinness - 24/3/08 at 06:35 PM

Riveted a hinge to the underside of the front chassis rail (allow a bit of clearance, so the hinge can go back more than 90 degrees). Then rivnuted that to the return flange on the nose cone.

That sorts the bottom edge out nicely.

Hinge Indy Nose
Hinge Indy Nose


Then I used an M8 bolt into the top chassis rail at either side, going into a rivnut.

But someone was using bonnet catches underneath the nosecone, which looked a better solution.

HTH

Mike


Michael - 24/3/08 at 09:51 PM

Dzus mine.

Two on bottom and one per side, to be hidden by bonnet.


Macbeast - 25/3/08 at 09:25 AM

4x6mm setscrews into L and R chassis rail (2 each side ), 3x6mm setscrews at bottom into aluminum spar across front. All into Rivnuts.

Not designed to come off every 5 minutes


eccsmk - 25/3/08 at 09:29 AM

mounted mine the same as guiness at the bottom with two rivnuts on the top rails and two m6 bolts with penny washers
HTH