On Sunday, March 17, 2013 6:56:51 PM UTC-5, Eric Greenwell wrote:
On 3/17/2013 4:47 PM, SteveB_Z5 wrote:

I agree this kind of tool is useful when one-man rigging, and this



Chip, My first 2 gliders both had levers for assembly (Jantar and

Libelle) and I can't understand why more manufacturers don't use this

method. The tools I make are made from Delrin to be nice to the spar

bushings. The tool also protects the bushings from the wear of using

the wing pins to bring the bushings into alinement. One would work

quite well on your -24.



I have used a steel eccentric tool (I like the Delrin idea better),

which did a nice job of pulling the wings together; however, my

experience on both an ASW 20 C (1500 hours, about 400 riggings) and an

ASH 26 E (3400 hours, about 700 riggings), is the wing pins don't wear

out the bushings. No discernible wear, in fact.



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Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to

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Don't underestimate the importance of a good, preferably synthetic grease when assembling any glider. A couple of years ago my tie-down neighbor showed up with his brand-new ASG-29. We just about killed ourselves a couple of times trying to get the heavy inner wings on until I gave him my Super Lube synthetic grease (what a name!). He did have the undersized main pin from Schleicher to align the wings but that still didn't help much.
Super Lube to the rescue, don't go to the glider club without it!