Hi, relax you have in effect shrunk the bush into the hole and made a good
engineering fit. What you need to do now is ream out the bush to the size of
the shaft that fits it. If you don't have a reamer that size use a drill bit
that mics up to the correct size. Don't use a power drill just a hand tee
bar.To check the drill size is correct do a trial on a piece of aluminium
first.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Klein" <fklein@orcasonline.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 5:06 PM
Subject: Europa-List: LG mounting frame
>
> Gentle Monowheelies,
>
>
> In the midst of Chapter 21 M, last evening I got myself in a bit of a jamb
> by the ever so slightest deviation from the build manual w/ regard to the
> mounting of the LG01A bushes in the large diameter tube of the LG mounting
> frame. Having become accustomed to press fitting and loctiting the smaller
> bushes, I didn't hesitate to loctite the first of the two LG01A bushes by
> gently tapping it in place with a rubber mallet after a minimal scouring
> of the tube and the requisite cleaning and degreasing...but lo and behold,
> I was surprised to find that the shaft LG09 no longer rotates freely
> within the bushing; rather, the shaft has but a very tight interference
> fit within the bushing.
>
> So.....what to do?
>
> I see my options to be (1) to hone the bushing carefully til the shaft
> freely rotates, or (2) heat up the frame and bush to break the loctite
> bond, remove the bush, and scour/sand the inner circumference of the tube
> until the bush slides in neatly and then re-loctite.
>
> Have any of you had to deal with this problem?... if so, how did you solve
> it?
>
> Any comments would be much appreciated.
>
> Fred
> A194
>
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