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Old 03-22-2015, 06:43 PM
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Lightbulb A thank you to Walt and a DUH moment

First a little background. I am building a glacial speed build of a -6A. When I started on this journey, about 1997, I bought an assembled, non-prepunched tail. When Vans changed to the .020 skins I built two new elevators and set them aside. Next life happened and the project was rarely worked on. During that time I got the wings and fuselage built. Now I have a little more time and have been cranking up the hours. I want this bird done when I retire.
Any way, I went to hang the prepunched elevators on the non-pp horizontal stab. Nothing but trouble. I saw a couple of Walt's posts and sent off an email. Walt came through with the answers and I was smiling from ear to ear, until I torqued the elevator rod-end bolts. No, drifting elevators, the stayed where I put them. Once again I was bummed out until I thought of the obvious. Those rod ends were sitting around for a LONG time. A few well placed drops of oil and all was well again. Funny how the obvious escapes us sometimes. In any case a big Thanks to Walt for his help. One step closer to getting it in the air.

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Old 03-23-2015, 01:27 PM
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Paul, AC Spruce sells a nifty tool to re-grease the rod-end bearings. See'

http://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalo...clickkey=17894

You can see it demonstrated in the videos on the EAA website. See

http://www.eaavideo.org/video.aspx?v=1628410977001

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Old 03-23-2015, 07:50 PM
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Thanks for the info Bevan. I'm often surprised by what they have. Sometimes when I search their site I just don't find some of the unusual stuff. Guess this is going in with my next order!
Thanks again,

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Old 03-23-2015, 09:03 PM
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That is pretty slick! I had never seen that before either. Thanks for the link.
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