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Re: aileron fitting

Subject: Re: aileron fitting
From: John Cliff <john@crixbinfield.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 14:46:06

> > The difficulty I am having is in attaching the completed ailerons to the
> > wings.  I can find no way to hold the hinge flaps firmly whilst I fit the
> > machine screws into the stiff anchor nuts in the aileron hinges
>
> I use a short length of stiff wire (like welding rod), with the end
> bent into a tiny hook.

Me too, galvanised garden fencing wire.  Make the right angled spur on the end
short enough to pass through a rivnut, then pull up the hinge and hold it there
while you insert a screw.

John Cliff
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