Andrew,
Greg is right, the best way to a nice straight fuselage without an ill
fitting or a crooked module, bonding voids, and clearance problems. I
have a plane in the shop now that when the stick was moved laterally,
the CS 08 actually hit the bottom of the fuselage. Another has a 1/4
inch dent in the fuselage side where the builder failed to properly
align the module with the fuselage and during bonding the clecos pulled
the module down to the canoe crooked and now he has a distorted
fuselage.
It is an airplane, if you don't trial fit and dry run through 5 times,
you're doing it wrong. If you don't want to use nuts and bolts for
clecos, then try #8 self tapping screws but don't pull them down hard so
as to dimple the skin.
Personally I use 1/8 inch US Clecos and when I go final I put in the
screws on the last dry run and final. Just don't pull them down hard
and squeeze out all that expensive Redux, and leaving a permanent dent
to be filled...
By the way, the same applies to all the rest of the plane.
Happy building,
Bud Yerly
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From: Greg Fuchs <mailto:gregoryf.flyboy@comcast.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 6:09 PM
Subject: RE: Europa-List: Trial fitting cockpit module
<gregoryf.flyboy@comcast.net<mailto:gregoryf.flyboy@comcast.net>>
Andrew,
I went ahead and followed the manual with this. Fitting the cockpit
module
with clecoes (small bolts 1/16" or so work well for this -the flanges
in the
module are thick in the front) insures it is in its final resting
position,
level laterally with respect to the fuselage, and sucked up to the
front. I
remember during the fitting process, the need to re-install the
cockpit
module (to check clearances with controls etc) numerous times to
verify all
is good, and appreciated having finalized the positioning. Only 2 - 4
attachment points were needed for me, two in front around the tunnel
bottom
and maybe a few on the sides, rear-ward.
Hope that helps,
Greg
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Is there a reason why chapter 11 (title: preparing the mouldings)
calls for
drilling cleco'ing the CM to the fuselage? Is this step not done best
just
before the bond?
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