Thursday, November 13, 2008

Installing the pulley or String Theory and how I learned to stop being afraid and drill the holes!

Finally got the right spec in place to get the aileron pulley
installed. There were questions about the rivets under it, and
initially it was recommended that some rivets be counter-sunk and then
an additional 5 cherry max would be drilled in through the pulley; I
nixed that idea where there was a chance of drilling and hitting the
rivets below the pulley, and it worked out great. I also laid out the
sting in a way somewhat different than the manual prescribed - they
asked the builder to just "eye ball" the string and make sure it
centers on top of the center aileron support, but instead I opted to
lay out a ruler at the centerline, then run the string to a camera
tripod, which gave me a pretty straight line!

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