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| Subject: | Flaperon edge distance |
I am building the flaperons from a 701 kit (made prior to CNC punching). The skins
are pre punched and I have lined up the lower rivets with the centerline
of the lower spar cap as stated in the instructions. My problem is that when
I pull the top of the skin down to the spar the pre-punched holes give me an edge
distance of only about one hole diameter. I am not making any attempt to
pull the nose skin tight against the nose ribs, but the trailing edge of the top
skin still overlaps the bottom by a little more than 1mm. I am wondering if
anyone else has experienced this.
The only solution I can see is to clamp the trailing edges flush with each
other and drill/cleco them first--then tie the skin down flat against the ribs
and drill/cleco the spar line. Any thoughts?
Rich Hartwig
hart701@charter.net
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| Subject: | Re: Flaperon edge distance |
Do you have some photos to help show the problem?
Here are all my notes from the Flaperon build process:
http://701builder.blogspot.com/search/label/flaperons
Good luck!
John Marzulli
http://www.GenevieveMarzulli.org/
http://MarzulliPhoto.net/
http://701Builder.blogspot.com/
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 8:16 AM, <hart701@charter.net> wrote:
>
> I am building the flaperons from a 701 kit (made prior to CNC punching).
> The skins are pre punched and I have lined up the lower rivets with the
> centerline of the lower spar cap as stated in the instructions. My problem
> is that when I pull the top of the skin down to the spar the pre-punched
> holes give me an edge distance of only about one hole diameter. I am not
> making any attempt to pull the nose skin tight against the nose ribs, but
> the trailing edge of the top skin still overlaps the bottom by a little more
> than 1mm. I am wondering if anyone else has experienced this.
> The only solution I can see is to clamp the trailing edges flush with
> each other and drill/cleco them first--then tie the skin down flat against
> the ribs and drill/cleco the spar line. Any thoughts?
> Rich Hartwig
> hart701@charter.net
>
>
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