Well..... I didn't notice the two little boxes with bearings that must be
pressed
into the sockets. That is the difference, because with those in there, the
fit to the pin is very good. That issue is solved.
I'll just say this for the record. The aviation business has always amazed me.
When a company makes a mistake in design, the customer ends up paying the price
to resolve the issue. It almost makes you wonder if companies will make mistakes
on purpose so they can make money on the users fixing their design screw
ups. I know the Europa is a good airplane and I am sure they did not do this on
purpose, but I just shelled out a huge amount of money for what is essentially
very little hardware to fix a design problem they created. To make matters
worse, if this doesn't go right, I could end up destroying my airplane.
The airplane is great to fly. It is extremely fuel efficient. With the 914
engine,
it climbs like a U2 and goes as high as I want to go. If you lose and engine,
all you think about is what caused it and not the urgency of landing in a
field. It is the first general aviation airplane I have flown that I need to
pay attention to how high I am going, because even in cruise climb of about 95
knots, it climbs about 800fpm all the way to 18,000 feet. Now if I can just make
the wing strong enough to keep me from worrying about it breaking!
I attempted to attach a picture of the forward socket with the little bearing
next
to it.
I'll post updates as the mod goes forward. My plan is to start it on Monday.
The spar is the wing, therefor it is extremely important to get this right. The
rest is fluff.
Dave
A227
914 Motorglider 500TT
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