Thanks to everyone for their input on the bent rudder horn. Thx especially to Glover for telling us what's available from NVAero including the billet machined upgrade part. Good to know. I checked with Rob's suggestion to contact Wicks; they only have the 6063 material and they checked & confirmed it does have the non-radiused inner corner angles. I did put in a quotation request with an aviation materials metal firm and am awaiting their reply. Larry's question about the control stops is right on the money; there are no stops installed at the input-end of the control loop. So if the horn failed due to too much input pressure, installing stops may be the next best solution. If I could get under the header tank that is... John Bouyea KR2 - N5391M/ sold KR-2S - Project in restoration OR81/ Hillsboro, OR 2015 KR@MMV Gathering CoHost
Subject: Re: KR> Bent Rudder Horn Langford said: "it looks like you've done your homework" Flesner said: "I'm going to stick my neck out and use your rudder horn failure to express my "opinion" on control surface stops" Schmitt said: "Wicks still sells the 1 1/4 x 1 1/4" Glover said: "I usually machine it out of billet..." Den Boer said; "If you can get 2024T3 material instead of the 6061 it is much better _______________________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/. Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html. see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change options. To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@list.krnet.org
