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Date:  1-23-2009
Number of Hours:  1.00
Manual Reference:  Section 6; Dwg 13a
Brief Description:  Build/Install Aileron Stops

Back in June when I was installing the ailerons I should have also installed the stops which control the upward travel limits of the ailerons. I had read about some plans and could buy some off the shelf materials to make the stops out of nylon, but decided now to go ahead and build the stops called for in the Van's plans. I dug out the aileron plans and found some .125X1X1 angle aluminum. In the first picture I'm pointing to the stops. The next picture is the fabrication diagram. After I fabricated two identical stops it dawned on me, now I have disassemble the aileron hinges and these stops were going to be a lot more difficult to install then if I'd done this when I built the wings. The drawings typically only show either the right or the left wing drawings so instead of trying to remember how to put everything back together backwards for one wing or the other I drew a mirror image of the aileron push-pull bracket assembly. Somehow this seemed to make more sense then laying on my back attempting to assemble everything upside down and backwards. That process didn't work too well several months ago and I'm quite sure I've lost several hundred thousand brain cells since then. What I didn't realize it's about as hard to draw this backwards as it is to think about it backwards...the solution...build a graphics art light table and trace over the reverse side of the diagram. Thought number two...I'm never going to get this airplane finished if I keep thinking of stupid stuff like this to do. In the end, a make-shift light table worked well and I now can tape my diagram onto the aileron and put the pieces together in the order they are intended. (picture 3)
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Need to build aileron stops

Need to build aileron stops

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Aileron stops mad from .125x1x1 angle aluminum

Aileron stops mad from .125x1x1 angle aluminum

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Too hard to figure out how to reassemble the aileron hinges backwards

Too hard to figure out how to reassemble the aileron hinges backwards

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