Alan,
Too late now, but the old flap motor can often be resurrected by
cleaning the commutator, which suffers from oil falling in from the
bearing above it.
Or new one from the supplier (made in the US and used on RVs and
Kitfoxes too).
Duncan McF.
----- Original Message -----
From: Alan Burrows
To: europa-list@matronics.com
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 3:43 PM
Subject: Europa-List: RE: Flap motor
Just before I shipped the aircraft over to the USA I fitted a new flap
motor as the old one had died. As you would expect (with my luck). E04
had changed the design of the motor and therefore I had to re position
the mountings. Because of the tight timescale for shipping. I never got
a chance to flight test this motor until yesterday (yes I actually went
flying..!). I notice that the new motor seems a lot slower than the
original. The time from zero flap to full flaps is 17 seconds and
retracting back to zero is 18 seconds. Has anyone else noticed this and
is it normal with the later flap motors?
Many Thanks in advance.
Alan
Trigear 914
N134AB
(look out America its now flying..!)
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