Thanks Richard,
It's just disconcerting to have what appears to be a crack on "each" of the
bends.
If they aren't on other sets, maybe they shouldn't be on mine either.
Regards
TR
Sent from my iPad
> On 30 Sep 2014, at 7:09 am, Richard Collings <rcollings@talktalk.net> wrote:
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> 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
> To: europa-list@matronics.com
> Subject: Europa-List: Cranked sticks.........unusual crease, like a crack
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> 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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