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Subject: Europa-List: Tailplane flutter
From: Fred Klein <fklein@orcasonline.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:56:41

Nigel...very sweet (KISS) solution...one question: Why castellated nuts 
rather than nylocs?

Also.. What material(s) did you use for your "discs" and "saddles"?

Fred

On Monday, June 25, 2007, at 03:29  AM, Nigel Graham wrote:

> To support the torque tube and prevent it distorting, 15mm wide
> cross-drilled discs are inserted into TP4 at each of the four stations.
> To spread the clamping load over a larger surface, "saddle blocks" 
> (profiled
> to mate with the OD of TP9 and TP12) are fitted under the bolt head and
> castellated nut.


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