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Re: Europa-List: Wikipedia's entry on flutter

Subject: Re: Europa-List: Wikipedia's entry on flutter
From: Jos Okhuijsen <josoke@ukolo.fi>
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 03:30:09

Don't know if it's important, and i can't really oversee the implications,  
if it's important let somebody please bring it to the attention of the  
accident ivestigators. I doubt if they do investigate these archives.

In one of the threads about the tailplane drive the following message has  
been written:
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Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 8:04 am    Post subject: Re: Mod. 62 -  
Replacement of tailplane torque tube drive      

The other way is to clean the drive sleeve and torque tube surfaces with
acetone and a jet of compressed air, then use a wicking grade Loctite to
bond them together after lining up the tailplane trailing edges. It must be
about 800 to 900 hours since I did that to mine and they are still solid. I
will, of course, have to deal with dismantling if I ever have to, but a  
heat
source inside the torque tube should do the trick. I also had to provide
some lubricating tubes to replace the oil into the torque tube bearings,
because the acetone washes that out too.
Regards,
William
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Regards,

Jos Okhuijsen

http://www.europaowners.org/kit600



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