Hi Tony
As you have stripped the paint off them both, for piece of mind crack test
them. You can buy the dye line system [3 aerosol cans] for a few quid I mean
dollars from an engineering supplier.
But that aside just lets look at the loads your going to put this part
under, to my mind if you were to exert the kind of load required to cause a
failure you would have ripped the whole unit out of the floor! Stick forces
re not high in the Europa, in fact there low and very well balanced don't
worry.
Good luck
Richard
-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Renshaw
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2014 4:33 AM
Subject: Europa-List: Cranked sticks.........unusual crease, like a crack
Gidday, again,
With my cranked control sticks, I stripped them of paint and inspected them
to notice a distinct crease where the beginning of the crank occurs. It is
on the inner edge, and appears to be the inner point of a bend, at the end
of a vice gripped section, as the bend is made by pulling towards the
operator, if in fact it was done in a vice, which I very much doubt. So, the
actual radius of the bends looks fine, but on the inner portion of a ben, on
the ends of the central straight sections between the bends, there is what
appears to be cracks. There is no doubt they are manufacturing marks, and I
would like to ask if anyone else has an unpainted stick, if they could
inspect theirs and see if they are the same. I am not going to paint mine
now, but possibly coat them in a clear polyester coating, like you put on
polished floorboards, so I can look through it and inspect it from time to
time, if in fact I dont get these replaced. Any help appreciated, and here
is a few photos to highlight my concern.
Regards
Tony Renshaw
P.S. You can feel it, and the tube that is of the bend appears a nominally
thicker radius, probably bulged from the bending process.
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