Vertical stabilizer wont come out (Asw-19)

On May 24, 7:30*pm, Dave Nadler wrote:
On May 24, 7:48*pm, wrote:

Hi,
* I was wondering if anyone experienced anything alike before and
might have any useful insights:
My vertical stabilizer on the Asw-19 has always been a problem when
being disassembled and has always required little more force to remove
than it was called for. Anyways, today I have assembled a glider and I
was unable to remove it again - we have spent close to 3 hours trying
to unhook it from a fin. Has anyone experienced anything similar
before? Any ideas? I’m afraid it wont let go without breaking the skin
on the fin and punching the locking pins out directly...

Thanks

GK

Um, the vertical stabilizer damn well better not come off...
Perhaps you mean the horizontal tailplane ???

- My mistake, I had a worst weekend of soaring when I finally made it
home to type this message... Horizontal.

On my ASW-20B which is (I believe) similar, I would grab the leading
edge of the stab near the center and "rattle" it up and down to loosen
the pins.

-Tom

On May 25, 12:00*pm, 5Z wrote:
On my ASW-20B which is (I believe) similar, I would grab the leading
edge of the stab near the center and "rattle" it up and down to loosen
the pins.

-Tom

5Z

Do I need to go check my hangar to make sure MY ASW-20B is still
there?

On point, MY ASW-20b is sometimes a real pain to get off and the
temperature (usually cold) seems to be a factor. 5Z's technique
works and I also sometimes stand straddling the tail boom (i.e. with
the vertical stabilizer at my chest) and reach back and grab the
elevator on opposite sides of the rudder and GENTLY pull and rock (as
in a yawing motion) it back and forth till it pops loose. Four
letter explicatives may speed up the process.

If you ever get it off, you might want to make sure everything is
first clean on all the fittings and then re-lube everything.

Todd
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