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--> RV8-List message posted by: loringsrv8@comcast.net
Well Charlie, I can't point you in the right direction but here is my experience
(fwiw). This is the first I've seen on the list concerning the flap fit but
I had the same problem. I appeared that the 'U' shaped spar had been slightly
underbent on the top causing the skin and nose ogive to be slanted upward from
where it should have been. Using an adaptation of my tail surface trailing
edge bender I clamped the flap in and bent the nose down. It did indeed fix
the fit problem but the flap skin was now dished out between the ribs and looked
pretty bad. It was apparent that the rivets were stressed and that I should
have drilled them out before bending. Then they could have been redrilled and
oversize rivets put in (maybe). So, as it turned out I bought a new flap and
it fit just as well as the opposite one. On my contact with Van's about this,
they allowed as how it was probably impossible because everything is done
by CNC machinery! Having already bunged mine up, I f
elt my
only recourse was to by a new one. Van's never indicated how to fix it or if
they had any sort of a special tool for the job. My suggestion would be don't
do anything to the flap but return it to Van's for an exchange. (I wonder if
there might have been a bad batch or something like that?). Good luck!
Art Loring, Jr.
RV-8, O320CS, N211XZ, could fly this month
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