How to ? ASW20 + canopy + gas spring

[Ludovic Launer]

Hello,

I'll have to change the gas spring for the canopy on my ASW 20 very soon but
...

It seems that there isn't enough room inside between the axis I have to pull
away and the glass fiber of the nose.

Or, is there "just" enough room ?
Or do I have to drill a hole in the nose in order to remove that axis ?

Thanks,

--
Ludovic Launer
lau...@esrf.fr

[Jjglider]

Dear Ludovic, Removing the
forward bolt is not your only problem, you must hold the gas strut in the
compressed position as it is removed. The best way to do this is to twist a
heavy wire around the strut before removing the bolts. The new strut must be
held in the compressed position for installation also. The bolts can be removed
without drilling any holes. This is a tough job
and you might consider taking it to your local glider repair station.
Good Luck, JJ

[Al]

When we did the ASW22 strut we managed to unscrew the strut from the forward
anchor after compressing and detaching the rear bolt.
This saved a lot of "keyhole surgery" with the removal of the forward
attachement point.

The new strut simply screwed into the forward anchor. we then refitted the
rear bolt and cut the wire the held the struct compressed.

Hope this helps with your install.

Al

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[JohnPegase]

>Dear Ludovic, Removing the
>forward bolt is not your only problem, you must hold the gas strut in the
>compressed position as it is removed. The best way to do this is to twist a
>heavy wire around the strut before removing the bolts. The new strut must be
>held in the compressed position for installation also. The bolts can be
>removed
>without drilling any holes. This is a tough
>job
>and you might consider taking it to your local glider repair station.
>
> Good Luck, JJ

Actually it's not all that difficult. I'm notoriously mechanically unskilled
and yet I've done it three times - re-fitted it with the wrong style strut, the
strut head couldn't rotate totally in the space around the locating bolt,
replaced that with the old one, eventually refitted another one.

I used a couple or three loops of wire locking wire round the top and bottom of
the strut's bolt holes not through the holes, but in convenient groves on the
ends, and with the canopy half closed, pulled it tight then used one of those
things for twisting up wire locking wire where you pull the handle and it spins
to lock it up. Removal was easy after that. Had to compress the new ones in
stages, tightening up the wire and then moving the vices closer together and
doing it again, but it wasn't difficult at all. This was on a Pegasus which has
a very similar shape to a n ASW 20 (much TOO similar, that's why Centair lost
the license to make ASW 20's)

John Wright, 742