Fairchild Club Forum

'After reinstalling the wings on my 24W46, I am struggling a little with the aileron rigging. We have invested several hours in this process and just can't seem to get it on the money. Maybe my expectations are too high, but you should be able to get the trailing edges faired and achieve the proper travels up and down left to right without wanting to pull your hair out. We have loosened the cables so that the stops on the stick do not interfere and have just tried to work the control tubes lengths to get the trailing edges lined up and the travels correct but are not having much success. I really wish there was a rig pin in the bus bar to hold it exactly straight up, then the tubes could be adjusted (bus bar being centered would ensure that the travels were the same on each side) and then the cables tensioned to center the stick.
Does anyone have a tried and true procedure for this or some advice? Am I asking too much to have the travels within 1/8 of an inch? I know you are allowed -2° on the angles but while I have all of this opened up I want to get it right.

Thanks,

Matt
1946 "super" 24 (Jake 755B2 powered) I know, the purists hate me. '

'Matt,
This is what worked for me, but certainly is not Gospel. With stick centered and both aileron trailing edges faired with the wing trailing edge, (easier said than done) adjust the aileron stops for one aileron only. Adjust the stops for say, the right aileron, ( 12 deg. down 17deg. Up) and the opposite aileron will automatically assume the correct throw. Have fun.
Tom
Hanford,Ca.'

'It would be helpful if everyone would put PT or F24 in the subject line.


In a message dated 3/17/2010 2:02:25 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
tommuell@earthlink.net writes:




Matt,
This is what worked for me, but certainly is not Gospel. With stick
centered and both aileron trailing edges faired with the wing trailing edge,
(easier said than done) adjust the aileron stops for one aileron only. Adjust
the stops for say, the right aileron, ( 12 deg. down 17deg. Up) and the
opposite aileron will automatically assume the correct throw. Have fun.
Tom
Hanford,Ca.





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