Brent Colvin
Well Known Member
I am in the process of painting my 7. Is anybody out there rebalancing their flight controls after painting? Looks like I do not need to, but A&P helping me thought we should. Any ideas? Thanks
I setup mine to have as much front side heavy to account for the paint. After painting (I used two stage paint) I was about 5.5 ounce trailing edge heavy. I was quit surprised to see how much of a change there was in the balance. To remedy that, I mixed buck shots with epoxy (total of 5.5 ounce) and pure it thru the tooling hole in the elevator where the weight is. It came out balanced perfectly.