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david.corbett5(at)btinter
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 Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 3:20 am Post subject: Europa Aircraft - Service Bulletin 15 |
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Service Bulletin 15 requires application of Loctite 603 (after degreasing) to the surface of TP4 in certain places.
My aircraft, serial 265, was built according to a Manual dated January 1996. Chapter 24, page 24-3, required an inspection panel of 4” circumference at the rear of the fuselage, and that is what I built into my aircraft.
Can anyone suggest how I can carry out SB 15 through this 4” hole, which is of course reduced in internal diameter by the tabs that hold the retaining screws? There is no way that I can reach TP4 and its fittings, even with my very skinny arms.
I could, of course, climb into the fuselage, lying on multiple cushions, etc – but I doubt if I would ever get out again! I had quite enough trouble doing that when I did Mod 70 a few years ago.
How are other owners with 4” inspection holes carrying out this SB?
I know some aircraft have 5” holes there – including one here at Shobdon which is much older than mine.
Any ideas will be most welcome – thank you all.
David
UK 265 G-BZAM 460 hrs
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jrgowing(at)bigpond.net.a
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| Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 3:09 pm Post subject: Europa Aircraft - Service Bulletin 15 |
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David
I will be in the same position with kit 327.
Maybe we just have to use a thin nylon tube on our supplies of thinner and Loctite 603 and try to get the end in a position to deposit the two in turn into a place where it will find its way between the two surfaces to locked together?
JR (Bob) Gowing Kit 327 in Oz
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h&jeuropa
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| Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 2:14 pm Post subject: Re: Europa Aircraft - Service Bulletin 15 |
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We have been quite successful working in the rear of our XS using the access holes specified in CBM and Mono Build Manual Chapt 23. The actual opening is 4 inch diameter. The opening required in the skin was 5 inch diameter (see the diagram in paragraph 7). Perhaps you can enlarge the ones in your fuselage.
Granted, there is not a lot of room but it's not too bad to work through the large hole and look through the small viewing hole above. We have had the entire tailplane torque tube out of the airplane using these holes.
Jim & Heather
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XS A185
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davidjoyce(at)doctors.org
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| Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 4:03 am Post subject: Europa Aircraft - Service Bulletin 15 |
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David, I would go for enlarging the panel, but if you can't face that then I
suggest trying to find a slim youth, probably female, with skinny arms, who
can be briefed and bribed to do the needful! If my 6ft 2" oarsman's arm will
go through the 5" one (albeit with the loss of the occasional bit of skin)
then there ought to be someone built like a fashionable clothes horse who
can access your panel!
Regards, David Joyce, G-XSDJ
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willie.harrison(at)tinyon
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| Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 8:10 am Post subject: Europa Aircraft - Service Bulletin 15 |
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If you are anywhere near Cambridge there is a very skinny engineering
lecturer/PPL here (colleague of Mike Gregory) who volunteered to
crawl down my fuselage to change my mass balance arm (mod 70?) in
exchange for a flight. In the end I did it myself via the inspection
hole in the classic style of a vetinary surgeon....
Cheers
Willie
On 2 Dec 2007, at 12:03, David Joyce wrote:
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<davidjoyce(at)doctors.org.uk>
David, I would go for enlarging the panel, but if you can't face
that then I
suggest trying to find a slim youth, probably female, with skinny
arms, who
can be briefed and bribed to do the needful! If my 6ft 2" oarsman's
arm will
go through the 5" one (albeit with the loss of the occasional bit
of skin)
then there ought to be someone built like a fashionable clothes
horse who
can access your panel!
Regards, David Joyce, G-XSDJ
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