From: "Marvin Kaye" <marv@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Re: [LML] Re: Flap actuator issues
To: lml
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:45:46 -0500
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Posted for "Bryan Burr" <bjburr@mwheli.com>:

  Jim
  I have had that problem as well.  The motor would not retract randomly.
  It is so frustrating when you have to take the entire back interior
  apart to access the motor and get it to work.
  
  The last time this happened I installed a jumper wire across the
  terminals of the "down" reed switch.  I have never had the problem
  again.  I just have to pay attention and make sure I don't over extend
  the flaps. I do this by setting the down LED on the trim indicator to be
  the lowest limit I want to attain plus I watch the extension to reach a
  visual reference point that I have on the wing.
  
  Problem has not returned and I am not tearing my airplane apart on some
  ramp in the rain or sweltering summer afternoon.  I think that sometimes
  we make the systems more complicated than is really necessary.
  
  Bryan
  N132BB
  

"""
   My ES has a little over 800 hours on it.  In that time I have had
  three
  instances of being unable to retract the flaps from full extension.  In
  each
  instance I was able to unhook the motor from the flaps and get it to
  run.  In
  each instance I found that the motor had pulled the actuator rod past
  the full
  extension limit switch until it jammed inside the rod's housing and
  popped the
  circuit breaker.
   
   When I pulled the pin out of the rod end the rod was very tight inside
  the
  housing.  When I slightly rotated the rod it got free and the motor
  would run
  and move the actuator rod.
"""