Title: Elevators Odds n Ends
Couple hours this afternoon tying up some loose ends with the elevators. First I needed to bend the lower leading edge of the trim tab skin so that it doesn't contact the opposite side skin as it moves up and down. Best method for this ended up being just using a long piece of steel bar to gently bend the skin downwards enough to give sufficient clearance. All this work trying to make this trim tab straight and we still end up just bending it to shape at the end. Overall I think I could still bend it up a little bit more but for now, unless it is a problem after the first flights, I will leave it as is. Based on its current range of travel, that should be more than sufficient trim tab movement to achieve the desired results. Next up was to install the rod end bearings to spec. Each one gets a jam nut (Vic Syracuse are your jam nuts tight?). The little PVC pipe setup I used to do this on the rudder just didn't really get the job done to twist the bearings into the platenuts so I just used a pair of vice grips with a towel over the bearing to protect it. Twist, check the distance and repeat until the center of the bearing is in the acceptable range. I marked my precision ruler for the 1/16" range that the bearing gets set to. So two more items off the list for now.


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