on 3/23/03 10:34 PM, Steve Hagar at hagargs@earthlink.net wrote:
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> Jeff:
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> I bonded my top on just 2 weeks ago, a word of caution do not put the top
> on until you really have to. If you do it when the manual says all of the
> subsequent operations will be very hard and inconvenient to do. Get all
> your wiring, antennas, fuel lines, pumps, flap stuff, etc in first. About
> the only thing I had to do in the back with the top on was the layups on
> the baggage bay bulkhead, and that required some contortions. Having said
> that one item that is critical is that you have the bottom of the fuselage
> cradeled up so it is not twisted. I leveled the boat bottom at points
> behind the fire wall, behind the cockpit module, and behind the rear
> bulkhead. Using aluminum angle to create flats for the level that register
> from the joggle on the bottom fuselage half. If you look real close at the
> dorsal area of the top of your fuselage you will see small tooling marks
> (little x's scribed) evenly spaced on the spine. Crawl under your fuselage
> bottom and you will see the same things on the belly. When you set the
> fuselage halfs together drill a hole through one of the top tooling marks
> and hang a plumb bob from it. You should line up or be very close to a
> correponding tooling mark on the bottom.
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> You should see very faint trim lines etched on both the top and bottom
> halfs. Shine a light obliquely to pick it up and highlight it with a pencil.
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> I used about 40 or 50 clecoes to hold the mess together, to avoid drilling
> out rivets or messing with sheet metal screws. I put small washers on the
> backside of these where there was access to get some good gripping force.
> To make life easier however when the adhesive is partially set up take out
> one cleco at a time clean the muck out of it with a wire wheel and put it
> back in. It makes life so much easier when everything is set up and cured.
>
> Steve Hagar
> A143
> Mesa, AZ
>> [Original Message]
>> From: Jeff Roberts <jeff@rmmm.net>
>> To: <europa-list@matronics.com>
>> Date: 3/23/03 2:38:10 PM
>> Subject: Europa-List: Trim Line
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>> I am trying to fit the top fuselage to the bottom today. Can anyone
> quickly
>> tell me if the black marker line thats on the flange of the bottom half is
>> the trim line? It dosen't say anything about this in the manual I have. I
>> guess this is one of those things us first time builders are to know. Also
>> any other advice on this process will be appreciated.
>>
>> Jeff
>> A258
>> Tri Gear
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> --- Steve Hagar
> --- hagargs@earthlink.net
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> Thanks Steve and everyone else,
IWhat a great tool this lists is.
Jeff
A258
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