Jos,
If you or anyone out there in Europa land wants to minimize drag
and make the tail planes look better consider this. The trim tabs can
have a hidden hinge pin that is accessed on the end of the tail plane.
The pin is secured with a screw in a blind nut. I did my rudder that way
and there are NO screw heads on my rudder to be seen. Since the trim
tabs are hinged on the top, it would look much nicer if the screw heads
weren't seen. Had I thought of it sooner, I would have done it that way.
Also, for you flyers who don't disassemble your wings ect.
Remove the pins every month or so. I didn't and I can not get one of my
pins in the starboard tail plane out. Rust has locked it in position. I
have just done my first annual inspection and found this!! The pin is
not very corrosion resistant. My port pin came out but needed lots of
twisting and pulling. Keep the pins greased. I guess I will have to
drill a hole up from the bottom to push upward to get it to come out.
Yuck!!!
Jim Nelson
N15JN
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> This is absolutely marvellous.
> Since i will begin building in a few weeks, this information, these
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> gotchas, are probably more usefull then any clever mod seen sofar.
> Keep it going, and of course, i will add mine as well.
> To start, before having started:
> The door of the specially built worshop, is just high enough for the
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> But not when on the trailer...:-(
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> Jos
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> TELEDYNMCS@aol.com wrote:
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> >In a message dated 9/4/2003 5:09:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> jeff@rmmm.net
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> >>Thats nothing,
> >>I drilled my hinge holes for the trim tabs on the tail plane in
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> >>flange and had to glass them over to fix the stupid mistake.
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> >>Jeff Roberts
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> >Yep, I must confess I did that too...........
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> >Regards,
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> >John Lawton
> >Dunlap, TN
> >A-245
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