Spent a little time at the
hangar today sealing up winter drafts in the nose of my Cozy
today, but not sure how to address the hole in F-22 that I had
to create for the EZ-Noselift manual backup system. Has
anybody got a successful solution to preventing air from
coming through this penetration?
Hanging out in my co-worker's office last week, we discussed sealing up the manual retract that rotates and moves through F-22. We saw Marc Zeitlin's idea that he made with glass and searched around for a pre-made solution.
We knew it would work when we saw it... a Jeff Gordon (NASCAR) beer cozy.
I slit it lengthwise, installed it with double sided tape, and test flew it. It works GREAT!
Its weak enough to not cause any unwanted failures (binding up the retract mechanism needs to be considered with different solutions).
Thanks for all your ideas, they led to this solution. I don't think these type beer holders are for sale anymore. The new ones are much thinner and more flimsy.
