Title: Rudder stops
Had a limited amount of time, so punched outa project that has been on deck for a while; rebuilt the rudder stops. The original ones are fabricated from angle to a specific dimension called out on a print, and previous builders have reported that in many cases they are too short and result in too much rudder travel. I had been forewarned about this and intentionally left the original ones a little long, planning to trim them to fit when I hung the rudder. Unfortunately, they were still quite a bit to short, so I had to make new ones, that were about 3/8" longer than the print in order to get the specified 1 1/8" distance from teh inbox trailing edge of the elevators. This was very much a process of starting big and taking them down a little at a time, clecoing in place, then checking travel, then taking them off and grinding down a little more. I managed to botch one of the new ones and while the swing was correct, the angle where teh rudder horn hits it was off so it wasn't contacting along the full width. I didn't want to point load the rudder horn by just having it hit in a small area so I scrapped and replaced that one as well. One thing to note if you have to do this; the horizontal leg of the stop can be longer if needed, but the vertical leg can't be extended past the aft edge of the bulkhead or it will hit the rudder spar as it swings to full deflection. Thats tehreason for teh odd shape of the finished product.


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