Perhaps I am splitting hairs trying to get everything perfect. When I
retract the flaps, the max up-travel is being limited by the nylon legs
coming in contact with the FL3 plate. After repeated flap operation, I
can even see a small ding mark on the nylon leg. This was a surprise to
me because I did not expect the nylon legs to function as any kind of
travel limit.
When I did the alignment, I painstakingly set the gap between the
flap's leading edge and the vertical closeout to be 5mm. But with the
nylon legs attached, that 5mm gap seems to be a moot point. I can't
retract the flaps to reach that 5mm gap anymore. It is more like 10mm.
This is the reason the flap and aileron don't perfectly line up now
because I did that alignment with the nylon legs off, and a 5mm gap.
--- Fred Klein <fklein@orcasonline.com> wrote:
> <fklein@orcasonline.com>
>
> Andrew,
>
> Your pix of your outrigger looks a lot like mine...you'd previously
> said that the interference you've encountered keeps the flaps and
> ailerons from aligning...I'm not clear as to why that is the case.
>
> What happens when you flip the wing over?
>
> When you do so, be sure that your wingroot template is in place and
> grabbing the TE of the flap and that the outermost TE of your aileron
>
> is aligned w/ the BOTTOM of the wingtip and clamped to hold it in
> place. My hunch is when this is done, alignment will be fine and you
> won't experience any interference from the outriggers.
>
> I did my wings simultaneously as I was concerned about maintaining
> symmetry...
>
> Fred
>
> On Wednesday, May 23, 2007, at 10:21 AM, Andrew Sarangan wrote:
>
> > Fred
> >
> > Thanks for that message.
> >
> > Here is a pic that shows the problem area. I have checked the
> > dimensions and they all appear to be correct, to within a
> millimeter or
> > two in the worst case.
> >
> > Any insights you can offer would be appreciated. Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Andrew Sarangan
> > http://www.sarangan.org
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