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Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 19:03:33 -0400
From: John Schroeder <jschroeder@perigee.net>
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Subject: Re: Elevator / HStab alignment in the ES (re Joe Santos' post)
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Jim:

We just finished jigging our fast build H-S and guess what? You nailed it cold.
I was astonished at the mis-alignment. The hinges are so far off that my
notoriously uncalibrated eyeball saw it right away. Two of them were way off the
centerline of the spar.Not only that, when I ran a very taught fish line through
the hinge bearings/bolt holes, the two mid hinges were off. I talked to Carsten
yesterday and he said to check the alignment again and get back to him if a
hinge is off center and he would tell me what to do. Mucking around with the
flox pads under those hinges might work, but that will still not put the hinges
along the centerline of the spar. I would have to drill out the hinge nut-plate
rivets, which, by the way were riveted to a separate pad and now the heads are
between the aft spar face and the pad itself. Carsten told me that the spar was
probably not perfectly perpendicular and the hinges had to be set to compensate
and to get a straight centerline for the hinge bolts. Looks like I'll have the
same problem you and Joe and others are having.

Since the spars of the fast build elevators have been bonded in, maybe the hinge
brackets on them could be a bit off their spar centerlines to compensate. No?

I'm not terribly happy with this situation. I've done a Glasair Super II H-S and
elevators from scratch, so I'm reasonably familiar with the problems. Would have
been far better to have had the Lancair fastbuild be very close to the money!!

Any thoughts? We haven't done a thing to the H-S so maybe they could give us a
new one and take a look at this one!!??

Best,

John Schroeder & Ron Szot

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