Chris
WRT Jeff's message below, there was some good advice on the forum on fitting
the mass balance arms a month or so ago. This was to ignore the procedure in
the manual and bond in the balance arm boxes and mount the ailerons
(temporarily) _before_ making the balance arm cutout in the lower TE. Full
details available in the forum archive at
(http://www.geocities.com/asarangan/europa_forum.html).
BTW I would rather have your aileron length problem -- my kit is one of the
early XS where the aileron cores were half an inch or so too short so I have
to extend the outboard closeout flange -- not looking forward to it.
Best regards,
Nick Hammond
-----Original Message-----
Subject: Re: Aileron length
Chris.
Don't mess with the inboard closeout. You can whack off enough of the
outboard closeout to make it fit. Apparently this is 'normal'. By the way,
if you haven't done the mass balance arms, be sure to check their location
against the cutouts in the lower wing skin. Another typical problem is for
the measurement called out in the manual to result in a mass balance arm
that does not align correctly with the cutout in the wing.
Jeff
Chris Beck wrote:
> Hello everyone!
>
> It's been quite a while since I've stopped in to say "hi". It's been a
> very busy summer/fall with a lot of business travel (both U.S. and
> Europe) and flight lessons while at home. The good news is I easily
> passed my written and am mere weeks away from my checkride. I'm quite
> happy at that with 45 hours in the logbook. Now if the weather will
> cooperate for a few more weeks so I can have a decent day for the
> checkride.
>
> The bad news is we've not worked on our Europa much the last few
> months. But, with crummy weather upon us here in Wisconsin, it's time
> to really get busy. So, today I was going to trim the wing for the
> ailerons and mount them up. The problem is the ailerons are too long,
> by almost 1/4". The root end has the bolt end flush with the end of the
> aileron closeout, and the tip end has about 1/2" of depth on the
> closeout. My first thought is to simply trim the tip of the aileron
> until it fits, but that wouldn't leave much of a lip on the closeout
> area. I don't think it will be a problem, but I just wanted to confer
> with the group to see what else may work. The manual is vague in this
> area of fitting the aileron to the wing, and I've been stalling here
> unsure of how to proceed. It's easy to trim off material, but a lot
> harder to put it back!
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
> Chris and Sue Beck
> A159
>
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