From: "Marvin Kaye" <marv@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Re: Flap actuator issues
To: lml
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:01:20 -0500
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Posted for Thomas Low <thomas.low@sri.com>:

  I had a similar problem, which appears to have been permanently fixed by
  moving the up-limit reed switch back, away from the hard stop.  It's been
  three years or more since my flaps stuck in reflex, and it happened on three
  occasions before this fix was applied.
  
  Tom Low
  LNC 235
  N31CD
  
"""
   The solution was to place a bushing to stop the actuator getting "locked
  up".
  I had a  shop do the work but if the theory makes no sense I could organise
  a
  photo.
   
   """
   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.
   """
"""