dsvajda
Active Member
Some lessons are learned the hard way. When you buy someone's kit, you not only get to make your own goof-ups, you get to discover any the other builder may have made. In my case I just discovered a goof made over 10 years ago by one of the first two owners of the empennage kit.
While hanging the elevators I found that the hole through the WD-605R&L for the AN-4 bolt is about 1/16" too close to the tube so I can't get a nut to start:
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It's drilled per the plans at 13/16" from the center of the tube but I'm guessing it wasn't drilled in assembly with the bearing.
I could probably get an MS21042-L4 on, but would that be acceptable? I've also thought of fabricating back plates from .063" 4130 moly and rivetting it to the outer surface of the WD-605's then redrill.
Any good ideas on a solution, short of building new elevators?
Thanks,
Dave
RV-6 Finishing ( and possibly empennage)
While hanging the elevators I found that the hole through the WD-605R&L for the AN-4 bolt is about 1/16" too close to the tube so I can't get a nut to start:
It's drilled per the plans at 13/16" from the center of the tube but I'm guessing it wasn't drilled in assembly with the bearing.
I could probably get an MS21042-L4 on, but would that be acceptable? I've also thought of fabricating back plates from .063" 4130 moly and rivetting it to the outer surface of the WD-605's then redrill.
Any good ideas on a solution, short of building new elevators?
Thanks,
Dave
RV-6 Finishing ( and possibly empennage)