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Re: Europa-List: pip-pin - tailplane

Subject: Re: Europa-List: pip-pin - tailplane
From: Fred R. Klein <fklein@orcasonline.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 07:44:22

David,

I am a bit confused at what you describe...any chance that you could post a
picture of the pin and the "inserter/extractor"?

Fred
A194

on 9/17/04 1:52 AM, David Joyce at davidjoyce@doctors.org.uk wrote:

> 
> An alternative arrangement (not my invention - saw it on someone else's
> plane and use it on mine) is to have a small steel cross bar in the hole in
> the pip pin that the ring comes in - made from a piece of the small rat
> tailed ( or really mouse tailed) files you can buy sets of very cheaply. You
> can then insert or extract the pip pins from both tail plane and wing root
> with a tool made of hollowed steel with two spiralling grooves cut at the
> end so you 'screw it on ' to the pip pin end. You can then manage with
> surface openings which are about 12mm wide.

David Joyce G-XSDJ




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