I just sanded the spar with coarse sandpaper and floxed the plates on. I didn't have any spin on me. I would have probably used some small wood screws to keep them from spinning, but I wound up having to add nut plates on a wing that was alredy built because there were not enough of them and the ones that were there were not locking nut plates, they were just T nuts. I had to install them through small holes I cut in the bottom skin. Kind of like building a ship in a bottle. I believe from Tim's questions a few weeks ago that he was in the same boat with a wing that was already built.
Dan Heath wrote: >Me too. Take a look at the link below, and you will see, near the end of >the thumbnail pictures, some of the hinge installation. Sorry that I did >not take any of the inside, behind the spars, to show the nut plates >attached with rivits. The rivits do nothing but keep the plate from turning > All the stress is on the nutplate and the hinge. I guess that I must have >done something wrong, cause it seens too simple and I thought that it was >the way everybody did it. > > > >http://kr-builder.org/Aileron/index.html > > > >N64KR > > > >Daniel R. Heath - Columbia, SC > > > >da...@kr-builder.org > > > >See you in Red Oak - 2003 > > > >See our KR at http://KR-Builder.org - Click on the pic > >See our EAA Chapter 242 at http://EAA242.org > > > >-------Original Message------- > > > >From: eng...@earthlink.net; KR builders and pilots > >Date: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 10:55:35 PM > >To: KR builders and pilots > >Subject: Re: KR>Ailerons > > > >I am a bit confused on the router bit to make a socket for the nut > >plates. It sounds by your description that you cut a socket and floxed > >in the nut plates on the outside, i.e. the aft side on the wing and the > >forward side on the aileron, instead of putting them on the inside where > >the screw goes through the wood spar and then into the nut plate. I say > >this because I can see no reason to cut out a socket for the nut plate. > > Am I just confused by your description? > > _______________________________________________ >see KRnet list details at http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html >
