---------------------------------------------------------- Zenith601-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Fri 11/07/08: 6 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 11:24 AM - FYI Cable Tensions, etc. (Sabrina) 2. 12:09 PM - Re: FYI Cable Tensions, etc. (Terry Turnquist) 3. 01:00 PM - Re: FYI Cable Tensions, etc. (Thruster87) 4. 06:27 PM - Re: FYI Cable Tensions, etc. (Sabrina) 5. 07:26 PM - Re: FYI Cable Tensions, etc. (Sabrina) 6. 10:44 PM - Re: Polish, Paint OR not (FlyingMonkey) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 11:24:51 AM PST US Subject: Zenith601-List: FYI Cable Tensions, etc. From: "Sabrina" All numbers in pounds as read on a Certified Burroughs Cable Gauge by my IA 11/7/08: Right Aileron found to be 25 adjusted to 35 Left Aileron found to be 25 adjusted to 35 Aileron Balance found to be >>>20 Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=212929#212929 ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 12:09:54 PM PST US From: Terry Turnquist Subject: Re: Zenith601-List: FYI Cable Tensions, etc. Sabrina, were your cables pre-loaded and set to the correct tension originally, or did you just "eyeball....feel" the tension? Interesting that the cables lost that much tension in just a short time!!! Thanks. Terry Turnquist 601XL-Plans St. Peters MO All numbers in pounds as read on a Certified Burroughs Cable Gauge by my IA 11/7/08: Right Aileron found to be 25 adjusted to 35 Left Aileron found to be 25 adjusted to 35 Aileron Balance found to be >>>20 Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=212929#212929 ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 01:00:14 PM PST US Subject: Zenith601-List: Re: FYI Cable Tensions, etc. From: "Thruster87" Could you elaborate on ailerons already modified with gussets ????? Cheers Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=212939#212939 ________________________________ Message 4 _____________________________________ Time: 06:27:08 PM PST US Subject: Zenith601-List: Re: FYI Cable Tensions, etc. From: "Sabrina" It is possible to flex the skin between the aileron hinge and the aileron ribs. The 650 adds aileron gussets, I am told. http://www.eaa.org/news/2008/2008-11-04_alert.asp "b) Inspect both ailerons for any type of deformation of the skins at the piano hinge area and root rib area." Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=212981#212981 ________________________________ Message 5 _____________________________________ Time: 07:26:41 PM PST US Subject: Zenith601-List: Re: FYI Cable Tensions, etc. From: "Sabrina" They were set with identical model cable gauges. The only problem is that over the telephone in November of 2007, and there may have been a lot of static on the line, what was heard from Zenith was ALL cables: 25 +/- 5, with the caveat: light side on the rudder, heavy side on the elevator. There was another conversation where 30 +/- 5 was mentioned but the voice was not recognized and they made no differentiation between any particular control surface. So too, this time an IA did it. >From what I recall, and from what I can decipher from my notes at this time, this is what they were set at originally in November of 2007: right aileron set to 25 found to be 25.....OK left aileron set to 25 found to be 25.......OK balance cable set to 25 found at 20........it runs through more nylon up elevator set at 30 found at 35...........elevator neutralized this time down elevator set at 30 found at 35......elevator neutralized this time left rudder set to 20 found at 27............different lift methods used right rudder set to 20 found at 27..........different lift methods used Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=212987#212987 ________________________________ Message 6 _____________________________________ Time: 10:44:35 PM PST US Subject: Zenith601-List: Re: Polish, Paint OR not From: "FlyingMonkey" Nice looking machine in the opening post. Thought crossed my mind that if the aircraft is left bare for aesthetics-might be an idea to PAINT those portions , with aluminum colored paint......to maintain the look , and add corrosion protection. Two good sources on aircraft corrosion Death By Corrosion (http://www.amtonline.com/publication/article.jsp?pubId=1&id=1438&pageNum=1) and Fairly long, but worth-reading FAA pdf (http://www.airweb.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgAdvisoryCircular.nsf/0/A7FFC0F8B6216A43862569B5005081ED?OpenDocument&Highlight=corrosion%20control) Bare aluminum good products: LPS3 (http://www.marvgolden.com/aircraft-supply/lps3.htm) or Dinol AV5 (http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maik/prom/2001/00000037/00000001/00299233?crawler=true) Another way they're starting to experiment with more-to protect ( in particular unpainted ) aircraft-sacrificial anodes. Although they're putting small sacrificial anodes ( a few ounces ) in the aircraft body ( although this wouldn't work in military aircraft ( built of metals in the same galvanic number as the anode=no current flow) I wonder why a 12 pound magnesium sacrificial anode , in a five gallon metal pail of water, which is coppered to ground, and also having one light wire from anode to an all aluminum aircraft,wouldn't also induce a 5 millivolt current flow-blocking the aluminum corrosion, and inducing the sacrificial anode to corrode instead ( while the aircraft is tethered ) -just like I do with buried water valves..... 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