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Subject: Wing Spar Quick Release Pins

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BobP

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Date Posted: Sun, Aug 18 2013, 11:31:40 GMT
In reply to: Russ Bost 's message, "Wing spar quick release pins" on Wed, Aug 14 2013, 21:26:07 GMT

I think the guy who built my plane had a problem with his release pin balls not descending. I guess the layers of fibreglass on the fixings in the hull that locate the wing pins resulted in the grip length of the pins being marginally too short. To overcome this problem he bonded some U brackets in the hull to retain the pins (see link below to picture in Picasa Album.

The pins are a pretty tight fit in the wooden wingspars so he also made a rack arrangement (see picture) so the pins can be gently eased in and out with a custom tool.

Cheers Bob

PS I've also attached in the Picasa album the pictures I took at the last Wellesbourne Fly-in. If anyone else has Pulsar pictures they want to share I think they can add them to this album.

The see the Picasa Album copy and paste the following into your browser:

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/sredir?uname=112798458580624512570&target=ALBUM&id=5913394985853593345&authkey=Gv1sRgCKzq98izwffklwE&invite=CMbtrLsJ&feat=email

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