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Re: Europa-List: Re: wing lift/drag pins

Subject: Re: Europa-List: Re: wing lift/drag pins
From: houlihan <houlihan@blueyonder.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 23:00:04
Alan.

You are , in this instance wrong , the bar between the rear drag pins is
designed to be in tension not compression.
Frans is completely correct ,  Sometimes eyes are not enough.

Tim


On 28 June 2013 22:37, Alan Carter <alancarteresq@onetel.net> wrote:

> >
>
> Hi Frans.
> Never built one, so just using my eye.
> When I stick my arm out of a car window it wants to go back inline with
> the bodywork.
> So tension at the front and compression at the rear,
> hence this mod of putting a bar between the two rear locator sockets.
> My eye tells me that the front pin ,if not for the rigidity of the wing,
> the front pin is trying to pull out.
> So can you give some simple reasoning why this is no so, as I said I am
> only using my eye.
> Regards.
> Alan
>
>
> Read this topic online here:
>
> http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=403584#403584
>
>


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