Flight,
Having recently purchased a completed mono-wheel, I to was scratching my
head on how to pull those little wing pins. Well here is the special tool
that I made to be used to pull and insert the wing pins. It is a regular
set of needle nose pliers that I got at a local DIY/Home Depot store. I
took one side of the pliers and bent 3/8ths of an inch on one side 90
degrees toward the middle. I then filed it down to the correct length to
fit the hole in the pin. I then filed down the un-modified side so that it
was level with the 90 degree bend. I have posted the picture on my web
server at http://www.stephenscott.com/Europa/images/pip_pin_tool.JPG as well
as sent it to the list to be posted. It allows you not only to grab the pin
but give you a good way to grip while pulling.
Regards,
Steve Crimm
A058 - N15JN
Here is another to try for inserting and removing pip pins in Elevator and
rear wing attachement -
Take a short length of steel or aluminium 1/2 inch tube which you will have
as a leftover.
Take some strong wire that will go through the hole in the top of the pip
pin and bend a handle on one end and a right - angle bend at the other and
cut it to a length that will be able to just comfortably through the tube.
Put wire through tube and into top of pip pin and you can pull on with and
push on tube to insert and just pull on wire to extract.
J R (Bob) Gowing, UK Kit 327 in Oz (or Australia)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred R. Klein" <fklein@orcasonline.com>
Subject: Re: Europa-List: pip-pin - tailplane
<fklein@orcasonline.com>
>
> 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:
>
<davidjoyce@doctors.org.uk>
> >
> > 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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