I am making a new rudder and elevator for my 9A and since I did not make the aircraft originally, I have no experience with the balancing procedure. I see nothing in the plans regarding this other than simply mount the provided balance weight and go with it.
When I built my two Sonexes the plans were specific about balancing the surfaces and I did. From my experience over the years, balance needed to be checked even after painting. I did some research of past posts on this and consensus is that it is not necessary. Greg Hughes even responded to one post saying that it was not necessary just mount the weight per plans and Bob's Your Uncle. Right now I have the rudder hanging horizontally from the Hiem Joints and it is definitely heavier by a bunch at the trailing edge.
Can anyone provide more light on this subject? Any Aeronautical Design Engineers out there?
When I built my two Sonexes the plans were specific about balancing the surfaces and I did. From my experience over the years, balance needed to be checked even after painting. I did some research of past posts on this and consensus is that it is not necessary. Greg Hughes even responded to one post saying that it was not necessary just mount the weight per plans and Bob's Your Uncle. Right now I have the rudder hanging horizontally from the Hiem Joints and it is definitely heavier by a bunch at the trailing edge.
Can anyone provide more light on this subject? Any Aeronautical Design Engineers out there?