Yes -Neville has, anyway - he thinks that if we bend the retracion lever so
that it takes a positive effort to spring it out of its terminal notch, then
it doesnt really matter if the locking latch flips up momentarily. H.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fergus Kyle" <VE3LVO@rac.ca>
Subject: Re: Europa-List: Confessions of a doorlatch hacker
>
> | >
> | > Cheers,
> | > I am so far behind in building, I have taken to making|
> ancillary
> | > pieces out of sequence whenever I cannot follow the manual for
> | environmental or other reasons. This applies to those who also must
> deviate where possible from the manual sequence when necessary.
>
> | > DOOR LATCHES
> | > This applies to hacking the hardware in
> | > Classic manual, Door Latches, Chap 35, p.35-2, fabricating DL08R&F
both
> | port & starboard bolt arms, and,
> | > XS manual, Door Latches, Chap.33, p. 33-2, same process.
> | > I made a habit of cutting each 10mm arm 'slightly'
oversize
> so that I
> | >could later reduce it to exactly the prescribed dimension. HOWEVER, in
> one
> |> case I forgot to do that and verrry carefully drilled the requisite
hole
> so that it
> |> ended up more than the required 7mm from the end (and I didn't notice).
> |> When it came to assemble, the handle would not happily traverse| to
full
> |> forward (it jambed somewhere). Finding the source of the hesitation was
> | > time-consuming and frustrating. It was not easy to see where the jamb
> | > occurred. While the pivots were the proper distance from each other -
> one
> | > was 8mm from its end, because I had forgotten to reduce the rod to the
> | > proper length. It therefore jambed against the axle barrel when
extended
> to
> | > full forward action with the internal handle. Taking it out and
reducing
> the
> | > dimension to the required 7mm solved the time-consuming problem.
> | > Neville and Ivan would smile.
> | > So if you come across the same problem as you assemble,
> |> remember their words. Measure twice. Or, in my case, write yourself
memos
> |> to re-measure before later assembly.
> | > I did not pen this solely for self-purification. It's just
> on the offchance that there is someone as stupid as I. Ferg
> | > Europa A064
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "hedley brown" <hedley@hedleybrown.flyer.co.uk>
> To: <europa-list@matronics.com>
> Subject: Re: Europa-List: Confessions of a doorlatch hacker
>
>
> <hedley@hedleybrown.flyer.co.uk>
> |
> | Talking about latches....
> | ----- Original Message ----- Yesterday, with the gear down and latched,
> late
> | on final with a wind carrying hot gas from a cooling tower of an
electric
> | generator, I had a violent drop with so much negative g that my head
> bashed
> | the roof and the gear unlatched and with turbulent air the flaps pushed
> the
> | gear up. So I went around to sort things out, but today I have put a
> little
> | spring on the latch to keep it in its slot even when it doesn't have
> gravity
> | to do it. That experience suggests to me that we should all have a
similar
> | little spring there. To those who say it hasn't happened to them in
> umpteen
> | hours I can only say not yet, and surely the rarity of experiencing
> negative
> | g when you have the gear down ready to land must account for the rarity
of
> | it hedley
>
> Well, it's not exactly door latches, but certainly important enough to
curry
> some interest. I have read before of someone experiencing neg G unlocking
> the outriggers and that bears investigation. It may have been a message
from
> Nigel in regard to bumpy ground unlatching gear.
> I almost made a resolution to drop some sort of 'plug' into
the
> down-slot to prevent bumps from unlocking the gear lever, but that won't
> work for outriggers. I'll bet Nigel could come up with somethiung useful
and
> minimal to discourage the tendency.........
> Ferg
>
>
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