At 11:44 31/03/99 +0930, Baker, Dino (FMC) wrote:
>Message for Andy Draper and all,
>
>Recently you mentioned the U/C mod that involved adding a strengthening
>brace. I have still not received the official factory notification. What is
>the status?
>
>Also what was the solution to the Tailplane problem?
AFAIK the U/C brace is optional, but I would say strongly recommended and
not hard to do.
The TP problem has a couple of solutions, one is Loctite as described by
Jens Gralfs, the other to replace the pins with oversize ones. This
involves taking everything out and precision reaming the holes.#
I intend to replace all four pins with a set of home made expanding pins,
without reaming. The pins will expand to fill the oval holes, (I hope, at
least it worked on a test piece.) Still won't be easy because of the
awkward access.
Graham
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