To beat Ferg to the punch, "Oh, My, Oh my! How clever! Great picts.
Tom Friedland
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-europa-list-server@matronics.com
[mailto:owner-europa-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of Steve Crimm
Subject: RE: Europa-List: pip-pin - tailplane and wing
<steve.crimm@stephenscott.com>
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
<gowingjr@acr.net.au>
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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