post paint control surface balance

[david roe]

I'll be finishing up the paint on my 8 in the next couple of weeks and not really sure how to go about checking the balance on the control surfaces. Any words of experience and wisdom out there? Thanks.

[attieeng]

on the elevator of our 7A we removed the bolt holding the elevator s left and right and the elevator control tube so that we could balance them separately. if you try to balance them as a unit the friction in the system makes it awkward, and you wont know which one is unbalanced

[Bob Axsom]

Flew for a year without paint. Painted and flew with no rebalancing. No noticable difference. Did the same with my Archer II 18 years ago.

Bob Axsom

[GillisAeropaint]

Jon Nys of Tulsa has built over 20 rv's.Ive painted many rvs for him and he said theres really no reason to have them balanced after painting.

[RV7Guy]

I agree with Bob and the others. I painted then checked the balance of each elevator individually. No change. If doing it again I wouldn't bother.