RE: Europa-List: Drilling Mono LG bolt heads

[Bud Yerly <budyerly@msn.com>]

Chris,

Buy the drilled head AN bolts and save the aggravation.


AAE antennas:  I have installed many.  I put them in the vertical fin and h
ave put them on the stern post as well as just behind the baggage bay.  All
 have worked well.

Don=92t cut the AAE or anything, they work right out of the box.


Technique, if putting on the aft side of the stern post, and cutting a hole
 into the post for the coil, make sure the rudder clears.


Personally I put them on the inboard skin of the port side of the fin and s
imply cut a notch in the ribs to clear the antenna.   Run the coax through 
a couple of grommets and leave it alone after glue up.   Since the antenna 
doesn=92t fail, but anything can, a simple access hole in the fin can provi
de access or I just will cut a hole (premarked for the client if necessary)
 between the mid and top rib and reach in and unplug the coax connector if 
for some reason my BNC connector failed.


Regards,

Bud Yerly

Custom Flight Creations, Inc.


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Sent: Monday, October 22, 2018 2:01:33 PM
Subject: Europa-List: Drilling Mono LG bolt heads


Dear forum members,

My mono landing gear swing arm is done and I wanted to install it in the ai
rplane. Looking at the manual I see the part about drilling the bolt heads.
 Yikes! That is something I really don't look forward to doing, with images
 in my brain of breaking tiny drill bits and having to order more bolts, et
c.

Does anyone remember if that was a pain to do, with a multitude of broken a
nd stuck drill bits and the like? or are the bolts actually soft and not a 
big deal to drill?

Not to gripe but I really wonder why couldn't Europa supply pre-drilled bol
ts with the kits  [Evil or Very Mad]

Chris


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