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So I've lost one of these under-wing inspection hole plugs and am having difficulty finding the replacement part. Can anyone assist? I'm looking in my illustrated parts guide, but can't determine what the part number is (or if it's even called out). I've had 2 A&P's tell me off-the-cuff to just pick one up at the local hardware store (I even looked, and can't find an exact replacement).

I've attached a couple pictures, one with the plug and the other without for reference.

Thanks!

-Kennet

Kennett

I used a 5/8" plug from my local hardware store. Home Depot and several local stores all carried them. To ensure a tight fit, either bend the tabs out slightly or run a piece of masking tape around the taps to increase the tension just enough.

Wilkie buttons.

"Wilkie Button" refers to the shape of "plug buttons" which Wendell Wilkie introduced to his campaign for President.
What you actually want is a "Plug Button" If you don't mind buying more than you need:
http://www.imperialinc.com/grp410.shtml

Otherwise, they can usually be found at Home Depot, ACE Hardware, and Tractor Supply. Some electrical supply houses also sell them as hole-plugs for electrical outlet or junction boxes.

Last I saw them was at Lowes in the Hillman Hardware Section. ACE and Home Depot carry Hillman as well but all the Lowes I've been in have the full Hillman compliment so your hunting might be more successful there than at the other places.

Now you've have a couple of non-A&Ps tell you to get them at the local "parts" place.

Well I call them Wilkie buttons. I'll also ketch some grief over using plastic buttons form Lawson. Usually Lawson= expensive. I keep a box of 1/2, 5/8, 3/4, 7/8 and 1" around the shop. There not to badly priced. Although I have had these around several years. They can be dyed, regular paint will usually flake off. I usually just leave them black.(obviously) I just like the low profile as opposed to the regular (wilkie buttons)

Brad Brady wrote:Well I call them Wilkie buttons. ...

That's what I call them too...but if you search for that term you'll not likely find what you want. It was years before I found out the origin of the term. (My Dad was a politically-interested person and had a very large collection of campaign buttons until some thieves broke into his home and took things of such diversity one could not determine what they were actually after.
(A year later my Mom was called to identify someone in a line-up and she tried very hard to convince the detective that since she was not home ...in fact not even in town... the day the break-in occured there was absolutely NO WAY she would be able to identify the thief. The detective was undeterred and insisted she come down anyway to view the lineup.
When she did, she was astonished to see six men lined up on a viewing stage with no apparent similarity other than they were all somewhat dishevelled except one... and she noticed he was wearing a very large, cheap, imitation-ruby ring... the one she'd bought in Mexico years before while on vacation.
The idiot had actually worn a piece of costume jewelry he'd stolen from her dresser to the line-up!
A large portion of the rest of her costume jewelry was found in the trunk of his car. Two of the objects therein had her initials engraved and he even had the name-bracelet give her by one of her students. Little investigation was required by the cop who arrested him during a regular traffic stop.

George,
That last post was hilarious. It just goes to prove that most thieves aren't geniuses.....Brad

YOU the MAN, Gary! (for the life of me I could not find the NAS spec!) (NAS451)

gahorn wrote:YOU the MAN, Gary! (for the life of me I could not find the NAS spec!) (NAS451)

Huh? I was looking at the rubber grommet blanking plugs below the NAS451s.

gahorn wrote:"Wilkie Button" refers to the shape of "plug buttons" which Wendell Wilkie introduced to his campaign for President.
What you actually want is a "Plug Button"

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If you don't mind buying more than you need:
http://www.imperialinc.com/grp410.shtml

Otherwise, they can usually be found at Home Depot, ACE Hardware, and Tractor Supply. Some electrical supply houses also sell them as hole-plugs for electrical outlet or junction boxes.

George would NEVER admit to having ANYTHING on his airplane named for a Republican!

Thanks for all the prompt responses everyone. I guess I'll go back to Lowes and search more diligently. At least this time I've got a little more direction.

-Kennet

Miles Miles Miles.....You just got to sit on the edge. Do you think Wilkie and Plug were related.....maybe to the Button Button family i think they came from a red state too


W.

W.J.Langholz wrote:.....maybe to the Button Button family i think they came from a red state too
W.

Perhaps, Dubya,... you were thinking of the actor, Red Buttons?
His first film debut, "The Admiral had a Wife" , was a film set in Pearl Harbor, and was set to open Dec. 8, 1941. Of course it didn't since the Japanese attacked the day-before. He always joked that the real reason the Japanese attacked America was to keep him off Broadway!