PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-425
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 425
APRIL 1988
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When your Modernized Cobra's tranmission cowling door is open fOr mainte-
nance, it can rub agAinst the pilot's canopy and leave it looking like Scarface.
But ±P4 Darwin E. ELliott at Hunter ²rmy ²irfield came up with a ±M²RT idea
to prevent those ugLy scars and costly repairs. Just add a bumper plate to the door
where it rubs against the canopy.
To make the plate, get access cover, NSN 5340³01´µ59¶829µ· and rubber strip,
PN µ92µ39¶¸¹ C²GE 702µ0.
Make the bumper plate like so:
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suRFaCe but seCuRes RubbeR stR´p
²tºach ºhe bumper
plate to the cowling
with riveºs or screws»
Put a bead of seal-
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beFre putting it on.
Be sure the holes in
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hardware are counter¾
sunk so that the hard-
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Àindshield and
scratch it.
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