KR>Pushtubes/weight

2008-10-12 Thread larry flesner
>One (of the three) pushtubes for the elevator in my KR-2 is 63 inches long by 1 1/4 diameter by .125 wall. It seems heavy and overdone, but my KR-2 shed 6 pounds in the process of removing the cable system and replacing with pushrods for the ailerons and elevator. Virtue and peace of mind are th

KR>Pushtubes/weight

2008-10-12 Thread Wood, Sidney M.
Larry, I weighed the aircraft with the cable system installed using a bathroom scale. After the remove and replace for the pushrod system, weighed again with the same bathroom scale. Granted that may have some errors due to internal repeatability and accuracy, plus my ability to block up the w