What make and model would that be ?

"Gary Emerson" wrote in message
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The pins that transfer the load from the wings to the fuse are installed
in the wing. There are holes on the fuselage side. It's an older glider
and as such doesn't have the replaceable swivel bearings on the fuse. In
this case, the holes are elongated vertically from wear and the pins have
wear on their top surface. The result is play in the wing to fuse
connection.

The pins appear to be glassed in to the wing root and the metal that has
the holes on the fuse side does not appear to be replaceable.

Making the holes a little bit larger on the fuselage side will be a little
bit of a trick only to keep the hole centered on where the original hole
center was. There is plenty of "meat" and opening the hole up is not
going to affect the stregth of the part on the fuse side. This would fix
the fuse side, but then the harder task would be either replacing the pins
in the wing or sleeving the existing pins somehow to achieve a snug fit.
Since there is already a recessed area on the pin, just putting a thin
sleeve over it isn't going to last because it will likely be crushed to
contour with the exsiting recessiion. I think I might have to do
something like add some metal with a welder onto the recessed area and
then carefully machine it down to match the existing profile before making
a sleeve to then upsize to match the new holes on the fuse. This being
said, I haven't even dug into weather the metal the pins are made out of
could be welded. ie heat treated or just too high a hardness, etc.

Has anyone ever tackled a similar problem such as this? If you have,
please contact me offline.

Thanks,

Gary