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Subject: Europa-List: rudder cable pulley mounting
From: Rowland & Wilma Carson <rowil@clara.net>
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 17:57:31

I've just drilled the holes for the rudder pulley and the inboard 
harness attachment, and am a bit surprised to find that when the 
pulley is mounted, it doesn't look anything like the drawing in the 
manual.

The picture shows the pulley well clear of the harness mounting hole, 
but I find that it overlaps the bolt head completely. I thought I'd 
fallen into another of those "printed manual is wrong, should have 
checked the PDF first" traps, but the PDF is the same as my 
hard-copy. My pulley does align with the edges of the cockpit module 
tunnel in the recommended way - about flush at the aft, and about 6mm 
clear of the bottom surface.

The manual suggests 3 spacing washers (AN960-10) as a starting point 
for pulley placement. That does put the pulley clear of the 
harness-fixing bolt head, but if one of those were removed it would 
be rubbing, so there is not much adjustment of position available. 
The smallest washer pack that I think would be OK here is 2 off 
AN960-10 + 1 off AN960-10L.

Any comments on this? Has anyone found the need to reduce the washer 
pack much to get good rudder cable alignment?

regards

Rowland
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