{"id":345,"date":"2011-04-22T15:44:19","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T21:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/?p=345"},"modified":"2011-08-06T15:56:05","modified_gmt":"2011-08-06T21:56:05","slug":"2-7-6-hinge-installation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/22\/2-7-6-hinge-installation\/","title":{"rendered":"2.7.6 Aileron Hinge Installation"},"content":{"rendered":"
This entry is part 5 of 8 in the series 02 - Wing \/ Winglets<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Now it’s time to mount the remaining control surfaces (rudders and ailerons).\u00a0 The ailerons come first. They’re six feet long. I start by squaring the cutouts on the wings and the ailerons and making sure the spacing is equal on the ends and that the trailing edge of the aileron matches the wing.<\/p>\n

To hold the aileron in place during all this, a 7-foot long aluminum angle stock is clamped to the bottom of the wing.<\/p>\n

Here’s the right aileron in place.
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Then the location of the three hinges (per aileron) are marked and the barrel area was cut out. While I was doing that, Malcolm was cutting the hinges.<\/p>\n

This is the cut out for the inboard hinge on the left aileron.
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I decided that it was important that the hinges be perfectly aligned. So I took the angle stock and clamped the hinges to it and clamped the angle stock to the wing.<\/p>\n

Inboard hinge on the right aileron.
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Then the (unclamped) part of the hinge is held in place and holes are drilled into the wing.<\/p>\n

The next step is to cleco the hinges in position to the wing and verify that the fit is still correct.
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Next foam is placed in front of the hinges to push them against the aileron (when it’s put it position). 5 minute epoxy is mixed and applied to the aileron-side of the hinge.<\/p>\n

Here’s Malcolm putting the epoxy on the hinge.
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Once the epoxy sets, the cleco’s are removed and then we drill into the aileron. After a hole is drilled, a cleco is used to hold the hinge in position just in case the hinge comes loose.<\/p>\n

Here, after the first couple of holes are drilled into the middle hinge of the left aileron.
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After all the holes are drilled, the hinge is popped off the aileron.
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Then the hinge is disassembled. Structural adhesive is applied to the hinge. The hinge is put in position and rivets are used to permanently attach the hinge to the aileron.<\/p>\n

Finished product:
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After the structural adhesive cured, we put both ailerons on and sanded around the opening to insure that they moved without any binds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This entry is part 5 of 8 in the series 02 - Wing \/ Winglets<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Now it’s time to mount the remaining control surfaces (rudders and ailerons).\u00a0 The ailerons come first. They’re six feet long. I start by squaring the cutouts on the wings and the ailerons and making sure the spacing is equal on … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"series":[26],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8","series-02-wing-winglets"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions\/359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}