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Subject: Flap Extra Ribs

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Bob P

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Date Posted: Sun, Oct 14 2012, 21:15:18 GMT
In reply to: Dave Piercy 's message, "Flap Mechanism Changes" on Sun, Oct 14 2012, 11:04:01 GMT

I had a paddle through the info that came with my Pulsar (build by the previous owner). There’s lots of info including the makers news- letters etc, but I couldn’t find anything on extra flap ribs.

I put a dink in one of my flaps, pulling the plane into my hangar in the pitch dark (one door was half shut!). As part of the repair I made an extra rib and riveted it in where the dink was straightened out. To make the rib I cut a pair of “cheese wedges ” from 19mm thick MDF and profiled to just fit inside the flap. Then I sandwiched a bit of aluminium sheet, (dimensions as per a flattened out rib) between the wedges, squashed the wedges in a vice, and then gently tapped over the flanges with a rubber mallet.
If it’s any help I could photograph my flap – you can see from the rivets where the LAA extra ribs were fitted.

Cheers

Bob

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Flap extra Ribs	Dave piercy	Sun, Oct 14 2012, 23:02:16 GMT