Fairing Installation Tips
Intersection
Fairing Drilling - with Horizontal Stab Attached
Wheel
Fairing Installation Method and Timing
Intersection
Fairing Drilling - with Horizontal Stab Attached
RV-10
List Posting: (Thanks to the Late
Brian Bollaert #40200)
For those of the group
that are at the
point of attaching the fairing between the horizontal
&
vertical (stab), if you already have the horizontal stab on and tuned
& don't want to remove it to do this job , I used a 90
degree on the drill with the 36 degree tap
on
the slow speed (and you must be steady) with oil, worked like
a
charm.
Wheel
Fairing Installation Method and Timing
Here is another Matronics excerpt, including
photos, that may help show a great time to do wheel fairings, and a
great method for doing them. Certainly beats doing them with
the wings on.
Per Jesse Saint
IMHO
the attached pictures show an ideal time/place/way to install the
fairings. Any time after this could work also, but it is nice to get
them out of the way early.
Per Tim Olson
On Page 48-4 Step 5 "Raise the airplane on jacks...."
So you do indeed jack the plane to do the fairings, and then you align
them along their "roll" axis so they align with the tire tread.
Then in future steps, you do the alignment just as you say,
with the weight off the gear. That way if there is any change in toe
due to the weight, you don't have to worry about it in flight. Nobody
cares if they're a little off on the ground, but in flight you'd want
them very very close. Do it without the weight on them. They
just make that one mention above on 48-4, but from that point on, the
alignment is all with weight off.
Jesse's Photos
