Kirk Lacewell wrote: > Can someone help me figure out what tension to set on my control cables in > my KR-2S?
I set mine by tightening them enough to take the slack out, then a little more to load them a bit, but being careful not to bend anything or put so much pressure on the pullies or bellcranks that anything approaches failing due to cable tension. The way I see it, it's just done by feel. My aileron cables are somewhat tighter than the elevator cables because I don't want to risk the cables coming off of the pullies, whereas I don't have that problem with the elevator, so the elevator cables are not not very tight at all. If you're looking for a number to read off a cable tensioner, I can't give you one. If you built it by the plans, one thing you should take into consideration is that the aileron cable tension is likely to change as the stick is moved fore and aft, since you're basically trying to stretch the aileron cable. That's why I built my stick to rotate about the axis of the aileron cable...so that problem doesn't exist with mine. There's a little more on that at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford/kcontrol.html ... Mark Langford N56ML "at" hiwaay.net website at http://www.N56ML.com
