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Re: Europa-List: Riveting aileron hinges

Subject: Re: Europa-List: Riveting aileron hinges
From: John Cliff <mx@crixbinfield.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 09:37:31

> >I gotta ask - what's your technique for making the holes in the vee BELOW
> >the hinge holes bigger than the hinge holes????
>
> Jeremy - just goes to show you can't believe everything you read on
> this internet thingamajig!
>
> I was sure when I wrote it that I had done it, but on thinking
> clearly about the geometry, I can't imagine how it would have been
> achieved.
>
> Advantage Davey.

You take an old cleco and grind a cutting edge into the offset tip, then use it
as a boring tool (with the shank oiled) through the hinge hole.

Deuce !     ( only kidding, I used a standard drill too  ...)

John Cliff
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