My vote also goes to letting it sit somewhat more off the rudder than may
have been planned. I did almost the exact same thing. I believe there is
no strength involved in the closer fit--perhaps just a cosmetic point. The
strength would seem to me to come from the buried nutplate--XTW12.
Jim Graham
A-101
Chris and Sue Beck wrote:
> Well, the rudder is almost complete, except for installing the rudder
> horn.
>
> There is only one minor problem. I hollowed out the foam to 12mm, just
> like the manual said. Only after it was too late did I read somewhere
> about going to 18mm or so. Damn.
>
> OK, no big deal. But, do I use all 6 washers and let the plate sit off
> the rudder layup a few mm or do I use 4 washers which lets the plate sit
> flat on the rudder? I see if I use the 4 washers that the bolts will be
> too long, unless I use the other two washers on the opposite side of the
> horn to properly space the bolts.
>
> My vote goes for just letting the rudder horn sit off the rudder that
> little bit and not loose sleep over it. The plate itself fits well
> after the usual fit "adjustments", but I had a devil of a time keeping
> the 4 layers of bid to stay down on the final layup over the flox
> fillets. I still had to drill a few holes and inject some epoxy around
> the fillet area to get it all tight. Now it looks pretty good. On to
> the horiz. stab.!
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Chris
> A159
> West Bend, WI
>
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