Kevin,
I went through the same things on setting up my wings. I ended up having to
take some off the socket and bid on the fuselage to get enough clearance.
As for the proper sweep mine was off aprox .5in. I couldn't see building in
tension or compression forces by bending the spars so left as is. I hope
this doesn't adversely affect the flight performance?
craig ellison
a205
silverton, or
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Klinefelter" <kevann@gte.net>
Subject: Re: Wing alignment
> Hi All, I am setting the wings to fuse now. I don't see anything in the
> manual about the spars being tight up to the seat back, or in the case of
> the stbd side, against the port spar steel cup. Getting sweep set equal
> seems to be bending the spars for and aft a little. Also the port front
pin
> socket does not have room to be free of inward pressure on the fuse even
> after milling .125 off of the wing root seated end of the socket and
> grinding through 4 layers of bid on the fuse. Any thoughts?
> Kevin A211 to be N211KA
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: forum-owner@europaclub.org.uk
> Behalf Of Richard
> Subject: Re: Wing alignment
>
> Bill,
>
> I had problems getting my wings lined up. I lined them up perfectly,
> reduxed the spar guides in place then discovered that I had ended up with
> an1/8th inch gap between the seat back & the port spar. After consulting
> with the factory, I bonded several of the thin washers supplied to take up
> the gap under the pip pin head, onto the seat back and covered them with a
> layer or two of bid. In seeking to find out how the problem had occurred I
> discovered that the seat back of the cockpit module is not quite parallel
to
> the firewall. The end job however is OK. The wings have the correct
sweep,
> are exactly parallel to the tailplane torque tube and the firewall.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: forum-owner@europaclub.org.uk
> Subject: Re: Wing alignment
>
>
> Bill, I think the question of wing sweep is misleading. IMHO there is only
> one place to fit the wings and that is with the spars tight up against
each
> other and tha rear of the cockpit module. Any gap between spars or module
> seems to be putting an unreasonable load on the spar pins inviting
failure.
> If you fiddle around with the wing tips getting the sweep measurements
> precisely equal you can easily end up with a half inch gap between
seatback
> and spar, which is what happened to me on my first attempt. Having cut off
> the pin sockets and thought about it I then fitted them with blocks
pushing
> the spars forward onto the cockpit module. This resulted in a 1cm
> discrepancy in the wingtip to tail measurements on the two wings, which I
> think is of no consequence, and much preferable to a gap between spar and
> module. Happy Xmas, David Joyce
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Wil McClellan <wilmac@gte.net>
> Subject: Wing alignment
>
>
> > In setting up the wings for correct angle of incidence (2.5 deg +or -
.05)
> > is simple enough to accomplish but I have a potential problem with the
> > forward and aft sweep. Holding the fuselage in place I can put adequate
> > pressure to get the wing sweep corrected but I question that even with
the
> > pin sockets properly set including the rear pin tie bar inplace, the
wings
> > won't still return to at least some of the incorrect sweep. Both my
wings
> > are about equal in rearward sweep. This will put the tie bar in
> > compression. I estimate I have to put 6-7 pounds of forward pressure on
> the
> > wing tips to get the correct position. Maybe this ultimately will be
> > corrected out with the tie bar but has anyone found they had to do extra
> > correction for this problem.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bill McClellan
> > A164
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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