Dana

Joined: 13 Dec 2007 Posts: 1047 Location: Connecticut, USA
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Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 7:21 pm Post subject: construction oddities |
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I've found a few oddities in the construction of my UltraStar, mostly in
the control system. A few were scary and all have been corrected. Today I
was looking at the drawings to identify the tailwheel strut tube size
(since mine is bent), and I noticed that the lower tail brace wires go to a
bolt on the rear vertical tube of the lower fin. That's funny... mine go
to the forward of the two bolts holding the tailwheel strut into the
fin. I did some careful poking and sure enough, the proper holes are in
fact there, under the fabric.
Considering the loads on the tail wires, it's probably not a big deal,
unless landing loads were to fatigue the bolt in question. Still it will
be fixed.
Fortunately the distance is the same, within the add/remove washers
adjustment method, so all I have to do is dig up another AN3 bolt of the
proper length.
-Dana
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If there was any logic in this world, it would be men who ride
side-saddle, not women.
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