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From: "McFadyean" <ami@mcfadyean.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: RE: Tail[planes
> Taper pins would work until they go loose!
> It would then be easy to affect a cure by tightening them some more. Not a
> sustainable solution, however.
> This assumes that the problem is one of pin/tube-wall bearing failure, >
which isn't proven.
>
> Taper pins would also take out any relative non concentricity of the fore
> and aft tube holes (generated by mixing up the fitted order of the various
> parts) which would result in only one of the holes doing most of the work.
>
> Duncan McFadyean
Duncan:
Quite right. I have taken the idea, punched it, kicked it, and
thrown it under the workbench.
Ferg
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