Al, An alternative arrangement (not my invention - saw it on someone else's
plane and use it on mine) is to have a small steel cross bar in the hole in
the pip pin that the ring comes in - made from a piece of the small rat
tailed ( or really mouse tailed) files you can buy sets of very cheaply. You
can then insert or extract the pip pins from both tail plane and wing root
with a tool made of hollowed steel with two spiralling grooves cut at the
end so you 'screw it on ' to the pip pin end. You can then manage with
surface openings which are about 12mm wide. David Joyce G-XSDJ
----- Original Message -----
From: Al Stills <astills@senecawholesale.com>
Subject: RE: Europa-List: pip-pin accident! Need spare and medical help!
<astills@senecawholesale.com>
>
> I was abel to see a finished Europa here in Phoenix this weekend and
observed one of the cleanest and easiest pip-pin arrangements I've seen to
date. The hole in the stabilator was only
> about 3/4" with a large set screw to cover when installed. To get it in
and out a tool was made with a t-handle. It had approximately 6" blade that
tapered to the end and then a turn at the end, flat on top and bottom. The
rings were pulled out of the pip-pin and the tool was used to put in and
pull out(being inserted into the ring hole). Very simple and effective.
Eliminates the "OOP!*
> (*&#@'s. You can put in with the tool and extract (the hole is just large
enough to put tool and your finger to push the plunger).
>
> Al Stills
> A095
>
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