[f-AA] Aileron bay questions

[Plain Carl]

That's pretty close to a "normal" fit.  This has been an issue on every one of the dozen or so I've done in the past and all of the brackets have either touched or been very close to the box.  Seems the issue is the attachment of the ribs and the inner bracket to the spar.  In the drawings there is more space between the top and bottom of the spar and the ribs than the real world allows.  Perhaps the production casting and stampings are a little off the drawings.  Not much can be changed to fix this as the location of the aileron bearings determines the airfoil of the combined wing/aileron system.  About all one can do is to form a slight "bump" in the transition piece.
   
  PC

Ian Harvie <ianharvie at internode.on.net> wrote:
  Folks,

The "box" around the bellcrank bracket on both wings was cracked, bent 
and buckled, so I made a couple of new ones. They are identical in size 
to the original. However there is no clearance between the top of the 
aileron bellcrank bracket and the new piece. (See attached pictures) The 
only way to have greater clearance would be if the ribs were higher, but 
they are all nailed on in the original holes. Is this normal? The old 
ones as mentioned were pretty beat up but it looks like they had been 
bent up to give greater clearance.
I'll send picture of the other wing in a separate post.

Ian
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