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1. 01:41 PM - RV-8A Dwg 4PP (Elevator Dwg) (Garey Wittich)
2. 07:26 PM - Elevator Fiberglass Tip - Now What...? (Matt Dralle)
3. 07:51 PM - Re: RV-8A Dwg 4PP (Elevator Dwg) (Bill Johnson)
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Subject: | RV-8A Dwg 4PP (Elevator Dwg) |
Greetings:
Does anybody have Drawing 4PP (RV8 Elevator)?? It is an "old" Dwg that came with
my RV-8A Emphennage Kit about 7 years ago. Called Vans, but they do not have
access to it = stored somewhere collecting dust. My Drawing 4PP is Revision
1. Does anybody have this drawing with a later revisions ??? If so could you
share with me what the later revisions encompass. Just messed up my Left Elevator
Skin, possibly by using old (not valid) dimensions - don't want to make
this costly mistake again.
Appreciate YOUR HELP, Garey Wittich Santa Monica, CA
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Subject: | Elevator Fiberglass Tip - Now What...? |
Dear Listers,
First, thank you to everyone that has responded to my inquiry
regarding filling the gaping holes behind the fiberglass tips on the
Fin and Horz Stabs. You guys had some great ideas and I'm going to
try some and see how it goes.
In the meantime, I fit the fiberglass tip on the Right Elevator today
and after notching out the tip to fit around the lead weight and
beveling the outside edge of the tip, I got it to fit on very
nicely. I plan to use the same platenut installation as I did on the
rudder. Frankly, I can't believe that Van's recommends using pop
rivets here since if the screw that holds the lead weight in place
ever becomes loose, you'd have to ruin your paint job to get in and
tighten it. Bah!
Okay, so I got the tip on and then focused my attention to the front
part that goes over the lead weight. Um, what a terrible
design... Surly you don't just leave it like that? Even if I sand
the fiberglass tip down to match the lead weight, there is still the
issue of the "openness" of the tip. There is no way I can sand the
tip and lead weight down to match the counterbalance skin. The
fiberglass tip will be too thin right at the end.
I really don't want to fiberglass all around the lead weight. It
also seems like just about anything I do with respect to the
fiberglass tip and "blending" it into the lead weight is going to
lead to cracking down the road.
I'm am just totally aghast at the "design" here. There just doesn't
seem like an elegant way to finish this off. The proper design would
have been, in my opinion, to make the lead weight smaller or a
slightly different shape such that the fiberglass tip could simply be
formed all the way around the lead weight. Kind of like on the Rudder.
Arg... I just don't know what to do here. I really don't want to
glass in the whole tip, particularly since I want it to be
removable. Do I really just sand the tip down flush with the lead
weight and call it "done"?
You know, it seems ironic that the sheet metal stuff in the
late-model kits is just so awesome. You can build a beautiful,
perfectly straight empennage now in a way that just wasn't possible
in the past. So now I have this awesome looking metal structure that
I have to dork a crappy, poorly formed fiberglass tip to it. Its all
just so disheartening...
Please tell me there's a special trick or maybe a really nice
after-market all metal hydroformed tip I can get to use instead...?
Matt Dralle
RV-8 #82880
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Subject: | Re: RV-8A Dwg 4PP (Elevator Dwg) |
Garey,
My 4PP Drawing is dated 3-21-96 with no revisions. It's for an RV-8. I
don't know if the RV-8A is different or not. My RV-8 drawing shows 5 1/2
inch spacing between the stiffeners with the Elevator Trim Spar (E606) T-ing
into the 4th stiffener.
Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Garey Wittich" <gareywittich2000@yahoo.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2008 4:40 PM
Subject: RV8-List: RV-8A Dwg 4PP (Elevator Dwg)
>
> Greetings:
>
> Does anybody have Drawing 4PP (RV8 Elevator)?? It is an "old" Dwg that
> came with my RV-8A Emphennage Kit about 7 years ago. Called Vans, but
> they do not have access to it = stored somewhere collecting dust. My
> Drawing 4PP is Revision 1. Does anybody have this drawing with a later
> revisions ??? If so could you share with me what the later revisions
> encompass. Just messed up my Left Elevator Skin, possibly by using old
> (not valid) dimensions - don't want to make this costly mistake again.
>
> Appreciate YOUR HELP, Garey Wittich Santa Monica, CA
>
>
>
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