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Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 10:59 AM
Subject: Legacy flap fit and jack pads
Lanny Rundell of Southern Air addressed the bad fit
of my right flap. Noting the left flap fit correctly he compared bolt
holes--they lined up precisely. He jigged the right flap into position,
determined where the hinge line should be, and shimmed the hinge at the spar
attach point. No new holes. Now fixed.
On another point he and his merry band turned the
outer wing panels upside down and used the under surface as a mold to make a
couple of about 5"x5" jack pads. Attached with a bolt through the bottom spar
cap at the outer end of the center main spar (No load area). Bolt doesn't carry
any load, but merely locates the pad. They added a rivet sticking out of the pad
and into a small hole in the wing bottom to keep the pad from rotating on the
bolt. Only fits one way. I'll add some felt to protect the paint. They
formed the center of the pad to accomodate the jack.
They do good work at their skunkworks in Winnsboro,
in N.E. La.,318-435-4401. My interest in Southern Air is a monetary
one--money out here, in there. I lose it, they find and keep it.
However, as I explain to my wife, I'm not really
spending the money on the Legacy, I'm merely converting its form from paper in a
bank to carbon fiber in a hangar. If necessary we can convert it back for a
"small" handling
fee.
Wendell Durr
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