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Hi, everyone....I just checked....my crush
plate is smooth on both sides. Thanks for all the input on this....I guess
it's steel locknuts for me. Paul Conner....SQ2000 safely at airport, wings
both on. Taxi testing this week.
Congrats on getting it there, and in less pieces
than before. Rest assured, that first taxi is a milestone
:-) Did you say you were at St. Elmo? If I never finish the
experimental hours on the RV-3, at least I can fly the SlingShot
over (after next weekend).
BTW, I don't think there's any need to use all
metal stop nuts. I hate those things, and only use them were
temp is really an issue. I think it's sort of an A&P rule of thumb
that all nuts forward of the firewall should be high temp, but I don't
think it's a hard fast rule. The biggest problem will be torque
specs. You'll have to try to measure the torque that it takes to just
turn the nuts, then add that to the torque you're supposed to have. Fiber
stop nuts aren't as bad, but it's still technically a
problem.
If you really want to do it right, call up Saber
Manufacturing, and let them give you the one hour lecture on using only
threaded drive lugs. The lecture cost me about $200 in lugs and proper
prop bolts (longer threads, drilled heads). Still, I only changed the
lugs on the prop extension, and not on the redrive. The
extension is still bolted to the redrive with AN bolts, and fiber stop
nuts (AN365).
Cheers,
Rusty (have not put any intake gaskets on backwards
<G>)
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