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Ka-6 Rigging
Steve, Wow I see you have a CR with a pendulum elevator, not
many of those were made, I saw one in New Zealand many years ago. Mine also has a pendulum elevator however it's on a Ka6E My manual suggests putting in the bottom main pin first, perhaps that could be worth a try on the CR's as well I have also made fuselage dollys which makes managing the fuselage a snap,just roll it out and leave it sit. Agree with Bruce about the ingrates We should remind them that our aircraft are made of a unidirectional reinforced laminated composite material consisting of micro-tubular fibres embedded in a long chain polymer matrix and having a near infinite fatigue life. Dennis Ka6E #4009 On Aug 7, 6:55 am, Steve Leonard wrote: Ka-6s go together quite easy. Left wing on first, bring it in square or slightly tip forward. Get the drag pin in, then move the tip aft until the lift fitting bottoms out. Put a stand under it to make the bottom of the spar roughly parallel with the fuselage deck. The leading edge is a straight line from tip to tip, so tell your tip person this. That will get you right on the fore and aft part for the second wing, so the wings can slide together. I always put the drag pins in before the main pins. To get the main pins in, I always have to tell the new guys to hold onto the spar when you push the pins in. If you don't, the fuselage will roll back (ours sits on its wheel with a stand to keep it upright) if the fittings were not absolutely perfectly aligned, and the fitings will go out of alignment, making the pin impossible to put in. Is this maybe when you start to have an issue? I always like to go up as required to get the top pin in first, then go down and get the bottom pin. Once both wings are in place, it should take less than 30 seconds to get the pins in. With the wings sitting on pads beside the fuselage, putting each one on shouldn't take much over 30 seconds from Lift to On. We find it is easiest to have three people. This way, you can easily set the wing onto the fuselage, with one person suporting the wing by the laeding edge, and one supporting it by the trailing edge at the root. The TE guy can also tell you what needs to happen to engage the lift pin. Oh, and with three people, nobody has to lift over about 40 lbs, or do a lift in an awkward stance that might hurt your back. Steve Leonard Ka-6CrPE N958Z |
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