Dan,
You might check your forward pins to see if they are not bottoming out in
the socket.
Bob Berube
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[mailto:owner-europa-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of N914RB
Subject: Europa-List: Trouble fitting wings to fuselage
Hi everybody,
I found a thread in the archives about trouble fitting the wings into the
fuselage but didn't come up with anything that addressed my situation.
The cockpit module is installed and I have the top temporarily on and snug.
Following the instructions to set the wing incidence, I've attempted to
insert the wings and insert the pins to hold everything in place while trial
positioning and fitting the wing root pins.
Outside the fuselage, the wing bushings line up fine, and using the two
large pins supplied, can get them to go through both bushings on each side,
although they are VERY tight.
When installing the wings on the plane, however, it takes quite a bit of
jiggling to get the port pin to go in the hole, then upon inserting the
starboard wing and shoving it in as far as possible, the holes just won't
line up. It'll go through the hole on the port spar, but not the one on the
starboard spar. It's about 1/8" shy of going in enough to line up.
I've reduced material at the end of both spars, removed a bit off the top
and bottom of certain areas of the spar that seemed to be making bad contact
with the fuselage opening, and sanded the openings themselves. My building
buddy, another Europa builder, and I are scratching our heads on this one.
If they go together outside the fuse, they should go together inside it.
Right?
It can't be where the holes are located inside the cockpit module as those
lines up fine with the first spar bushing. We just can't get the starboard
wing to go in enough for the bushings on that spar to line up. Even if we do
get them lined up, it's a bear to get those pins in and out.
Any help is much appreciated.
Dan Bish
Kit A144
Tucson, AZ, USA
Mono, short wing.
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