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Old July 29th 12, 03:39 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Dan Mockler
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Default Komet Trailer - Winter Project

You can purchase a replacement tongue from Anschau for
around 559 Euro's.

Dan

At 22:26 28 July 2012, Evan Ludeman wrote:
On Jul 28, 5:32=A0pm, Papa3 wrote:
On Saturday, July 28, 2012 5:03:15 PM UTC-4, Bastoune

wrote:
Well, it appears that Bill did not get a good response to his

question
=
14 years ago. Has the state of science improved to the point

that removing
=
the tongue from the trailer is now a feasible endeavor? I have

the same
pro=
blem as Bill and could use some RAS tips... Thanks!

Bastoune


I replaced the tongue on my trailer maybe 13 years ago.

=A0IIRC, the
only=
additional thing I had to do was to spray a fair amount of

penetrating
oil=
into the sleeve (using the holes where the two bolts were

located) and
app=
lying some significant torque to twist the whole thing out. =A0

Time may
ha=
ve dulled my memory a bit on the exact details, but I do recall

it being
"i=
ntuitively obvious" (i.e. no crazy, hidden stuff).

My 1985 Komet has two big U bolts that clamp down on the

outer tube
that the tongue assembly slides into. You have to loosen these

in
addition to pulling out the two big cross bolts that Erik

mentions.

-Evan / T8