Personally, my sleeves and respective pins were kept in the correct order
and only assembled twice during the build process; the second assembly
being the final assembly. There was no play then, but now there is;
primarily in the s'bd side, a little in the TP arm sleeve and none in the
port side.
Mine however may have been subject to a pounding from the BMW "experiment",
but this would be no more than a bad start on a 912 and only serves to
highlight the sensitivity of this area.
Duncan mcFadyean
On Sunday, January 13, 2002 10:00 PM, J R (Bob) Gowing
[SMTP:gowingjr@acr.net.au] wrote:
> Fergus, Duncan and all,
>
> Although I am a long way from finished UK kit 327, I have followed this
> story with interest and believe that the parts made at the factory have
not
> been precisely drilled across the centre line of the tube. This means
that
> if you do not keep all the various component parts in exactly the same
> locations and orientation, then you must elongate holes circumferntially
to
> some extent. So it then depends on luck in reassembly whether they are
> elonged around the circumference a little of a lot.
>
> Thus I can imagine that although Bob redrilled larger holes, he could
have
> still missed cutting out to some of the edges; but I would have expected
> that the amount of play should have been reduced. And so he has advised -
at
> first!
>
> Why play should then increase again I cannot imagine. Unless the
tailplanes
> are hammering away against the pins when it would no doubt be obvious
> through the control stick!
>
> JR (Bob) Gowing in Oz
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fergus Kyle" <VE3LVO@rac.ca>
> Subject: Splashes in rear fuselage....
>
>
> > attn: I guess, Graham S:
> >
> > This topic was fascinating and productive reading. But I ran into a
mental
> > snag at one stage and beg clarification.
> > The idea is to avoid that difficult bit about flanging the
> pitch
> > stop mechanism to the fuselage top without crawling into a dungoen back
> > there. I followed the theme until the 'splash' is laid in the fuselage
top
> > and the result affixed to the stop before top is glued on.
> > I found the top to be floppy and pliable UNTIL it is
cleco-ed
> > onto the canoe. That is when (I have read) that all assumes untwisted,
> > levelled correctness.
> > How then do you cut the pitchstop structure to proper
length
> > before the top goes on, and how do you ensure that the splash matches
> proper
> > top shape if the top is not attached?
> > In the "Upper Elevator Stop" photo, the stop seems to be
very
> > accurately cut to length and shape of the top interior (accurate
> apparently
> > to the 1/16th inch). I apologize for seeming slow-witted by then it's
hard
> > to hide the obvious.
> > Ferg
> >
> >
>
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