main spar on 601XL

Hello all,

I am in the process of extracting my main spar from the fuselage of a 601XL.  Does anyone have ideas or cautions that may help.

 

Regards

 

Ray White 

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Permalink Reply by Alberto Martin on April 30, 2011 at 8:22am

yes Ray, try not to touch the web while drilling out the solid rivets. I use a nice tool I´ve bought a Aircraft Tools to do the job.

http://www.aircraft-tool.com/shop/detail.aspx?PRODUCT_ID=1341A

 

Bye

Permalink Reply by Chris Sinfield on May 3, 2011 at 2:30am

Ray we never removed the spar to do the upgrades we kept the leading edge attached at the bottom but you can remove it if you need to but keep the rear bottom skin and ribbs attached.. Call me if you need any other help

Chris

Permalink Reply by Phill Barnes on May 3, 2011 at 5:50am
Hi Ray
Take a look at my kitlog website to see if what I documented might be of help to you.


http://www.mykitlog.com/ch601xl

PHILL.
Permalink Reply by Raymond White on May 6, 2011 at 7:39am

Brilliant, not only does it help but what a great motivator!  Thanks Phill

 

Permalink Reply by Bob Pustell on May 3, 2011 at 7:38pm

I think Ray is talking about the spar carry-through stucture, the big heavy thing under your knees when sitting in the airplane. I think most of the advice given is referencing the spar in the wing, not the carry-through spar in the fuselage.

 

I have not built my fuselage yet, so I will be incorporating the upgrade as part of the build. The one piece of advice I remember from the discussions at the beginning of the upgrade era is that several people recommended propping up the fuselage at several places before removeing all that stuff from the middle. Some folks had trouble with the fuselage distorting without all the structure in place.

 

There were several good discussion threads about doing that work here in this forum, you should be able to find them with some digging in the archives.

Permalink Reply by Raymond White on May 6, 2011 at 7:28am

Thanks Bob,

Took your advice and added some support to the fuselage after removing the spar.

 

Cheers

 

Ray White

Permalink Reply by Ron Lendon on May 6, 2011 at 10:12pm
Ray,

Take a look at my kit log site, I did one of the flying CZAW airplanes then did my own. Logged as ZU601XLB OR CZAW

Http://mykitlog.com/rlendon

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