Lynn and Dana,
And anyone else that posts; first thank you for all the help thus far. I truly
believe that you all have saved me from a catastrophic failure of the elevator
control. I do not want to sound stubborn, but there are a couple of reasons I
have not abandoned the present tube.
1. I am trying not to open up the hole any larger in the wood bulkhead that
joins to the horizontal stabilizer spar. I don not know how much of this wood
is critical, hence the small diameter tubing choice.
2. Not as good a reason but, the only ends I could locate to fit directly into
a tube, fit the 5/8" tubing. They are kind of a fork end that slips into the
end of the tube, and then you can rivet, or drill and bolt, which I did. The
cross bolt through them is also AN3, and the bolts are 90 degrees to one
another just in case being inline could cause a problem?!
3. These little fork fittings kept the pushtube operating in a straight line
with no side loading like a side mounted bearing looked to cause. If I
centered the bearing, it would require much more machining then I have the
skill and equipment to fabricate. Also hooking anything big at all up to the
elevator horn in the tail is a @#$%&^ ! No Room!
Definitely need some experienced thoughts...
Thanks.
Colin Rainey KR2(td)
crain...@cfl.rr.com
Sanford, Florida
FLY SAFE!!!!
