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 Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 2:34 am Post subject: Folding Wing Kitfox IV-1200 (fix the wing pin) |
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message posted by: kurt schrader
My Al cuff covers the pin and safety pin. I can still
see them from inside, but they can't come apart or
even wear much as long as the cuff traps them
together.
I used 1/16th" self sticking rubber on the inside of
the cuff to keep it from wearing or leaking rain.
Seems to work so far.
Hi Kurt.
Are you talking about the small aluminum cuffs that transition the wings leading edge to the windshield?
Buggers to make, to form the pattern to match the form of the window! and then again when I went with the LP molded windshield...double bugger!!
Anyway, I shaped my cuffs that would allow me to remove the pins so that I could fold the wings. I just shaped little notches in the cuffs that I could slide the wing pin out. During pre-flight, I always check my safety pin from outside. I can touch it, spin it and bless it.
I also made a small flat rubber shingle looking thing that keeps the slip stream from swirling into the recess where the pin is dropped in between the top windshield and the butt rib. Being a rubber flap, the pin pushes it out of the way during extraction and I can hold it forward when I need to insert the wing pin. Two small rivets with very thin washers holds the rubber shingle to the cuff.
All on the list.
From reading this thread topic.
I see no reason why I should not change to a bolt and castle nut or a wing nut and secure the nut with a safety pin or split pin.
Wing nut and safety pin if you intend to fold wings. Castle nut and split pin for a more permanent set up. (Not safer but just more permanent)
I think the shear strength (sorry' I used the word tensile in my earlier email) should be equal to the original wing pin (I will have to look that up).
And no threads. All threads should poke out the bottom of the spar tube so we don't get any abrasion. So careful selection of bolt shank length (the smooth shaft of the bolt) is important.
What say you! If I do this, wanna come fly with me?
Eric Ashman, Atlanta
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