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Re: Have to tell you.....

Subject: Re: Have to tell you.....
From: Miles McCallum <milesm@avnet.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 07:39:48
Oh dear.... I've come over all smug, what with my 250 fuselage jig that holds 
the
canoe
absolutely rigid and true (I had a twist in the tail too...)

M   :>


> Our canoe is badly twisted by 0.6 degrees which we established
> after a full week of measuring the daylight out of the fuse. So, when
> we mounted the torque tube we had to use a special jig and later
> resorted to a water bucket pulling straight the back of the fuse to
> be able to glue in the torque tube at ZERO degree to the fuselage.
> 
> Guess what we noticed after the bearings were in: removing the
> water balast and the fuse slipping back to 0.6 degrees to its old
> bad habit, the torque tube STIFFENED like you wouldn't believe.



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