Seaplane grommets?

Are you putting a Decathlon on floats? If not, save some future grief by using normal grommets, covered with surface tape, and opened with a pencil soldering iron.

We have a Cub with them - truly messy. I have taken to using doilies with a small hole to hold replacements.
 
I used these make sure you order extra as I also used them for trim tab and my reason is I think they look better and no this is not a float plane
 
i have always heard they're preferable over the regular washer grommets. the factory is doing the wings so they'll be whatever the factory uses. maybe i'll do the tail and belly with the seaplane ones.
 
For a tailwheel plane with the horizontal stab and aft fuselage down close to the runway/taxi surface, I'd think the highlighted text would apply.
 

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For a tailwheel plane with the horizontal stab and aft fuselage down close to the runway/taxi surface, I'd think the highlighted text would apply.
I'd definitely want them on the belly just to help keep oil out of the belly. Makes since on the tail surface as well since I get a lot of mud splashing on it
 
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made a little template, cut a bunch of patches to hold the grommets in place and went to work. Patches might be a little bit bigger than they needed to be but that's ok

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