---------------------------------------------------------- RV9-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Mon 05/26/03: 4 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 02:54 AM - Re: Elevator mounting problem (John Oliveira) 2. 02:00 PM - Canopy (Roy Taylor) 3. 06:20 PM - Re: Canopy (Tim) 4. 07:42 PM - Re: Canopy (larry-perryman) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 02:54:16 AM PST US From: "John Oliveira" Subject: Re: RV9-List: Elevator mounting problem --> RV9-List message posted by: "John Oliveira" Get out your trusty tap - I run a tap through a lot of the plate nuts for problems like that one or the many plate nuts that seem to be a little distorted. It will thread the spar a little if needed. John Oliveira 90054, working on fuselage ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Alexander" Subject: RV9-List: Elevator mounting problem > --> RV9-List message posted by: Don Alexander > > This afternoon I began mounting the elevators to the HS so I could drill the elevator horns where they bolt to the center bearing on the HS spar. The right elevator went on fine but when I went to install the rod end bearings into the left elevator one of them wouldn't start. It acted a bit like it wanted to cross thread. On closer examination I noticed that the K1000-6 platenut isn't quite centered perfectly on the holes in the spar ant the E-910 Hinge reinforcement plate. It's real close to being centered but not quite - apparently just barely enough to keep the rod end bearing from getting started. I'm looking for a simple solution and I'm not finding one. Has anyone encountered and solved this problem? > > Don 90702 > > Finishing the empenage (and itching to start the wings) > > ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 02:00:24 PM PST US From: "Roy Taylor" Subject: RV9-List: Canopy --> RV9-List message posted by: "Roy Taylor" Larry, thanks for that, I'll try it your way and go for the best fit of rear skirts to the turtle deck. Tim, my canopy fitted really well for most of the top centre tube, but like yours it was gappy every where else, but with a lot of heaving and pulling it's OK now. I don't know if it's my imagination, but it seems to have relaxed into a better, less stressed fit after about a month of working on it. I seem to have taken it off and clecoed it on again hundreds of times. Now I've nearly finished and it all fits rather well, I think I may have worried about it a bit too much.! Roy. G-RUVY. ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 06:20:13 PM PST US From: Tim Subject: Re: RV9-List: Canopy --> RV9-List message posted by: Tim Roy Taylor wrote: > --> RV9-List message posted by: "Roy Taylor" > > Larry, thanks for that, I'll try it your way and go for the best fit of >rear skirts to the turtle deck. > Tim, my canopy fitted really well for most of the top centre tube, but > like yours it was gappy every where else, but with a lot of heaving and > pulling it's OK now. I don't know if it's my imagination, but it seems >to have relaxed into a better, less stressed fit after about a month of >working on it. I seem to have taken it off and clecoed it on again hundreds > of times. Now I've nearly finished and it all fits rather well, I think > I may have worried about it a bit too much.! > Roy. G-RUVY. > Well, I tried sticking my little electric heater under it today but it has a thermostat and refused to turn on... so I put it out in the sun for about 3 hours. It only got to about 100 deg. here in Phoenix today, but it was enough to "relax" the plexi a bit. So I put a whole bunch of spring clamps on to hold it together and started drilling. Seems to have gone OK - no cracks or anything. Thanks, - Tim. ________________________________ Message 4 _____________________________________ Time: 07:42:25 PM PST US From: "larry-perryman" Subject: RE: RV9-List: Canopy --> RV9-List message posted by: "larry-perryman" Tim Put it back out there after you get it all tied down and let is stress relieve a bit. Just like steel, a little heat takes away a lot of internal stresses. Regards Larry Perryman -----Original Message----- From: owner-rv9-list-server@matronics.com [mailto:owner-rv9-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of Tim Subject: Re: RV9-List: Canopy --> RV9-List message posted by: Tim Roy Taylor wrote: > --> RV9-List message posted by: "Roy Taylor" > > Larry, thanks for that, I'll try it your way and go for the best fit of >rear skirts to the turtle deck. > Tim, my canopy fitted really well for most of the top centre tube, but > like yours it was gappy every where else, but with a lot of heaving and > pulling it's OK now. I don't know if it's my imagination, but it seems >to have relaxed into a better, less stressed fit after about a month of >working on it. I seem to have taken it off and clecoed it on again hundreds > of times. Now I've nearly finished and it all fits rather well, I think > I may have worried about it a bit too much.! > Roy. G-RUVY. > Well, I tried sticking my little electric heater under it today but it has a thermostat and refused to turn on... so I put it out in the sun for about 3 hours. It only got to about 100 deg. here in Phoenix today, but it was enough to "relax" the plexi a bit. So I put a whole bunch of spring clamps on to hold it together and started drilling. Seems to have gone OK - no cracks or anything. Thanks, - Tim.