Dave,
The best installation for your autopilot is as per Carl Patinsons
suggestions. I too have the Trio, and you either bury it under the module
with a clamping/bonding method onto the aileron torque tube where you will
never be able to get to it again, or you put it where you can easily access
it. If you halve the bushes, have a look at Steve Dunsmuirs web pages and
look up my name, you will find pictures of the exact setup you describe,
but however I am not using it. I reckon if it ever came loose in that
confined space, it could jam things up. If it ever got stuck under your
right thigh, at Carls location, you can easily set it up so that you can
reach down and disconnect it with a pull forward on the autopilot drive
arm, if you have the right coupling. My intention is to use a coupling like
the door struts, like a tow bar cup on a trailer, so that if ever I am not
happy, it will be easy to disconnect. So, leave it till later.
Reg
Tony Renshaw
Sydney Australia
At 07:38 PM 3/21/2005, you wrote:
>
>Folks,
>
>I want to install a Navaid-type wing leveller (Trio EZ Pilot) into my
>completed, but not yet installed, cockpit module.
>
>Has anyone got a design for attaching a drive arm to an aileron torque
>tube, which is already bonded into the cockpit module?
>
>Cutting a CS03 bush in half (so that it forms a saddle), riveting a
>drive arm to it and then riveting the assembly to the torque tube, has
>been suggested and appears sensible. However, it would challenge my
>limited skills to drill the torque tube and get a pop riveter accurately
>to the location.
>
>Is there a clamping arrangement, preferably 'PFA-approved', that I
>could put on to the torque tube.??
>
>For example, could I 'simply' use half a CS03 bush and a couple of hose
>clamps. (That's what RV folk have used for attachment to aileron push
>rods, but that may not be wise for a rotational force..??)
>
>With thanks,
>
>Dave Moore
>
>Monowheel #550
>Aberdeen, UK
>
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