Ummmm... I DONT like the sound of this..

I NEVER felt good about the seat belt "gust lock", racking the
controls hard against the stops like that..

I got one of the locks made by
"Airplane Things" (they advertise in Piper Cherokee group magazine)

Clean and neat, very secure and dosn't "rack" the ailerons against the
stops..
..
For a whole 35 'merican bucks..

Works great!

(and no, I don't own the company)

Dave

On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 12:22:04 GMT, wrote:

On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 18:39:53 -0500, "Bob Chilcoat"
wrote:

My Hershey-Bar wing Archer is in for annual. Today they found a crack in
the left wing aileron bellcrank support. Sounds dangerous. It's going to
need replacing. Any idea if this is as big a job as it sounds like? Will
the wing skins need to come off? Anyplace I can find a drawing of the
structure online? Thanks.

Sorry I missed this yesterday, but it sounds like your guy's got
things figured out.

We use to keep a couple of OEM doublers & inspection panels in stock
for access on constant-chord Pipers. Way back when there were
instructions in the maint. manual that essentially told you if you
maintained the "factory" spacing from other structural components, you
could add an access panel if you needed to.

Of course, as you found out, popping a fuel tank gives quite a bit of
access.

Honestly, the only bellcrank brackets I can remember changing was on
an ooooold PA28 (both sides were cracked), am thinking that they were
a slightly different design than yours.

Really sucks that I'm forgetting some of this stuff. if you don't use
it-you lose it I guess.

Only real excitement I've had lately was a hung-start yesterday
afternoon. Freakin' turbines do spoil you, it's real easy to get used
to flipping a switch and watching the dumb thing start itself...

TC