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1. 02:47 AM - Re: Alternator Warning light. (Roger Mills)
2. 02:50 AM - Trouble fitting wings to fuselage (Graham Singleton)
3. 05:27 AM - Re: rudder pedal movement (Kingsley Hurst)
4. 08:35 AM - Trouble fitting wings to fuselage (Erich Trombley)
5. 12:46 PM - Re: rudder pedal movement (Mike Gamble)
6. 04:02 PM - Re: Trouble fitting wings to fuselage (SPurpura@aol.com)
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| Subject: | Re: Alternator Warning light. |
--> Europa-List message posted by: "Roger Mills" <Roger.Mills@btinternet.com>
Fred,
As you suggest, the alternator warning light is lit only when the alternator
is connected to the battery and not charging - you need separate warning
lights (or use the voltmeter) for high or low voltage faults.
Regards
Roger Mills
Europa 141
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| Subject: | Trouble fitting wings to fuselage |
--> Europa-List message posted by: Graham Singleton <graham@gflight.f9.co.uk>
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.
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.
Dan Bish
Dan
it sounds like some of the bushes in the spars are badly aligned. My approach would
be to find out which ones are wrong, remove them then carefully rebond them
in using tight pins, (the bolts provided are slightly undersize and this is
where the errors originate, in the original jigging) You need to do it with the
wings assembled ,
Then fit to the fuselage and check alighment with the fuselage bushes.
The easy way is to ream out the misaligned bushes but you will end up with loose
pins,
Graham
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| Subject: | Re: rudder pedal movement |
--> Europa-List message posted by: "Kingsley Hurst" <hurstkr@growzone.com.au>
Mike,
Since no one else seems to have attempted to answer your questions (at time
of this writing anyway) I will throw in my 2 pennies (cents) worth.
> Regarding rudder pedal travel - am I right in thinking that the total fore
> and aft pedal movement is only about 3 inches to get 30 deg. deflection
> from the neutral position?
If you have the standard XS rudder cable attachment on the rudder, I think 3
inches would be about right for the top of the arm onto which the cable
attaches. I have Graham Singleton's mod and my movement is a little less
than 3 ins. The pedals being longer than the arm, would move
proportionately further.
> Also how far back from the front of the footwell are the pedals when in
> this so called neutral position?
Can't answer this as I have a Classic but in the Classic manual, the minimum
distance from the front of the footwell with the rudder fully deflected is
40 mm if I remember correctly. (my manual is down in the workshop - locked
up right now) I assume the XS manual should advise likewise.
> Because of the geometry the pedal tops will only be level with each other
> at one point I think.
The pedals should be level with each other only when the rudder is straight
but the distance they are from the front of the footwell in this state will
be determined by the length of the rudder cables. The length of the rudder
cables also dictates how far the tops of the arms approach or encroach on
the SS firewall, the other point you were talking about. Doing each
separately, to determine the cable length, I made up a spacer to hold the
pedal the required distance from the front of the footwell and while holding
the rudder fully deflected by tensioning the cable, wrapped the cable around
the thimble. While held in this position, I made an alignment mark on the
cable and the thimble with a felt pen. The cable was then pulled out into
an open area and swaged. This assumes of course that the rear ends of the
cables have already been properly affixed to the rudder horn. If desired,
finer adjustments can be made later if you have incorporated some sort of
cable length adjusters (like turnbuckles) in the rudder circuit.
Hope this helps more than it confuses !!
Cheers
Kingsley in Oz
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| Subject: | Trouble fitting wings to fuselage |
--> Europa-List message posted by: "Erich Trombley" <erichdtrombley@juno.com>
Dan,
You are obvioulsly not alone in this matter. After extensive diagnostics, I found
for N28ET that the problem was in the fiberglass cuff that you glass in place
over the spars. The cuff is required for the mod to increase the gross weight
to 1370 lbs. Rigging the spars was no problem outside of the plane as you
describe, however, when trying to fit the wings to the aircraft I just could
get the wings in 100%. It seems a few thousands of an inch make all the difference.
Anyway long story short I removed the cuff and bingo the wing slid in
all the way allowing for simple rigging. Good luck.
P.S. Looks like I may in fact be coming to Copperstate after all. Where are the
folks from out of town staying? Casa Grande?
Erich Trombley
N28ET Classic Mono 914
Dan,
You are obvioulsly not alone in this matter. Afterextensive diagnostics, I found
for N28ET that the problem was in the fiberglass cuff that you glass in place
over the spars. The cuff isrequired for the mod toincreasethegross weight to
1370 lbs. Rigging the spars was no problem outside of the plane as you describe,
however, when trying to fit the wings to the aircraft I just could get the
wings in 100%. It seems a few thousands of an inch make all the difference. Anyway
long story short I removed the cuff and bingo the wing slid in all the way
allowing for simple rigging. Good luck.
P.S. Looks like I may in fact be coming to Copperstate after all. Where are the
folks from out of town staying? Casa Grande?
Erich Trombley
N28ET Classic Mono 914
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| Subject: | Re: rudder pedal movement |
--> Europa-List message posted by: "Mike Gamble" <mp.gamble@tiscali.co.uk>
Thanks Kingsley. It helps and your input is much appreciated.
The XS has no minimum firewall to rudder pedal distance stipulated. Just
make sure there is some gap.
I had made up my cables from front to rear thus attaching the eyes to the
pedal arms. Yes, the obvious thing to do now is attach the eyes to the
rudder thus making the length adjustment much
easier.
Mike Gamble
XS440 mono
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| Subject: | Re: Trouble fitting wings to fuselage |
--> Europa-List message posted by: SPurpura@aol.com
The bushes can be aligned slightly by applying high heat ( I believe i put a
torch to a 1/2" rod and a heat gun on the bushes) as the redux softens,
insert your pins/rods.
Sam N77EU
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