Jos
was that William Mills' email? Highly relevant to the investigation.
Graham
Jos Okhuijsen wrote:
>
> Don't know if it's important, and i can't really oversee the
> implications, if it's important let somebody please bring it to the
> attention of the accident ivestigators. I doubt if they do investigate
> these archives.
>
> In one of the threads about the tailplane drive the following message
> has been written:
> -----------------
> Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 8:04 am Post subject: Re: Mod. 62 -
> Replacement of tailplane torque tube drive
>
> The other way is to clean the drive sleeve and torque tube surfaces with
> acetone and a jet of compressed air, then use a wicking grade Loctite to
> bond them together after lining up the tailplane trailing edges. It must be
> about 800 to 900 hours since I did that to mine and they are still solid. I
> will, of course, have to deal with dismantling if I ever have to, but a
> heat
> source inside the torque tube should do the trick. I also had to provide
> some lubricating tubes to replace the oil into the torque tube bearings,
> because the acetone washes that out too.
> Regards,
> William
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