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Re: Europa-List: tourque tube troubles

Subject: Re: Europa-List: tourque tube troubles
From: Paul Stewart <europa@pstewart.f2s.com>
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 21:52:47

Thank you Bob. Making a puller to pull the offending articles out.  
Investigating (with LAA) possibility of welding plate or tabs to the  
TP5 which would then bond flat to the root rib as well as TP5 in the  
plywood.

Regards

Paul
G-GIDY


On 27 May 2008, at 18:20, William Harrison wrote:

> <willie.harrison@tinyonline.co.uk>
>
> I suggest that this problem can also be caused by undue side loads  
> translating into torsional and axial loads on a badly lubricated  
> torque tube when putting the tailplane on or off  (easily done  
> especially if you don't hold it the way it says in the user manual).
>
> The design is not brilliant, with quite a small area for the bond.  
> Repair could be difficult if the original internal flox fillet  
> prevents the disbonded sleeve from being removed completely for  
> degreasing. Note that if you do need to degrease in situ prior to  
> rebonding, then IPA is an effective degreasing agent that does not  
> dissolve the blue foam like some other solvents.
>
> Needless to say (??) anyone with a G-reg aircraft who wants to go  
> public about such a problem might need their repair scheme to be  
> approved by the LAA if they didn't want to risk invalidating their  
> Permit, and therefore, in turn, their insurance.
>
> Willie Harrison (too tired to write the book, "A Plane is Reborn"  
> and still waiting for the LAA to give me my Permit back after a 700  
> hr re-build.....)
>
>
> On 26 May 2008, at 21:59, Paul Stewart wrote:
>
>> <europa@pstewart.f2s.com>
>>
>> Anyone had TP5 disbond from the tail plane root rib? If so I'd  
>> like to pick your brains.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Paul
>> G-GIDY
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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