I was over at Roger Huttlestone's Northwick Engineering establishment
the other day, getting the port wing spar clamp for my covered
trailer modified to cope with the spar strap.
In conversation Roger mentioned that a while back he'd had a flurry
of interest in one-man rigging systems to suit the factory trailer.
About half-a-dozen people had made enquiries, so he'd started to buy
in materials and make jigs etc for a production run. He had to do
quite a bit of redesign work including changing the way the wings are
stowed. Alas, once he'd set up, all the interest evaporated and he
was left with no customers. He now has a pile of redundant bits
including a complete wing dolly taking up much-needed space and he is
about to throw them in the skip.
I offered to let the Europa community know and give you all one last
chance to contact Roger before he gives it the heave-ho.
I guess I should declare an interest - I bought one of the covered
trailers he used to make, which includes one-man rigging gear. So far
(not yet flying!) I am pleased with it. It's made the logistics of
the build much easier; I can move the wings around single-handed
(although I learned the hard way about leaving them sitting around
unsupervised!), and the trailer is great for storing all the bits I'm
not working on at any particular time.
Roger has advertised in the Europa Flyer but if you don't have an
appropriate back-number to refer to, contact me off-list & I'll give
you his details.
regards
Rowland
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