NOSE CONE # PART 2- OUT WITH THE ANGLE GRINDER

So after many bourbons I decide to take ten steps backward on my project and grab the angle grinder and cut up the nose cone frame that I had spent some much time creating. I did this as I felt the gull wing doors were just to much of a problem and were proving to be beyond my skills.

What I decided to do was create a nose cone frame with the same shape as before but have a two hatch design that opened like a boot on either side of a fixed central member when viewed from the front.

The upside of this design is that I feel I can shove a lot more in a boot style design than if I had gull wing doors. The downside of the design would be getting stuff from the bottom and lifting heavy items into the nose cone. Another bonus when changing the frame was that I would have dropped some weight off the total package and would have less to go wrong.

But like all designs everything is a compromise and I felt that I would be far better off with this hatch arrangement and be confident of being able to seal the hatch lips.

 

Pic. 1: Here you see the frame described above with the two hatch openings.

 

Pic. 2: Front view

 

Pic. 3: Side View