This evening decided to work on attaching the elevators to the HS. I had seen other people talk about how you had to take the elevators off and put them back on several times to get the right fit.
I literally did this maybe 30 times each side. I was struggling getting what I felt was an even 1/8" gap between the or 1/8" gap between the outboard edge of the HS and the counterweight arm of the elevators. I got it as close as I felt I could get it without it rubbing and moved on with drilling the horns, making the wood wedge and drilling the bottom part of the horn. Happy with my progress I went to bed.....
However something wasn't sitting right. I start getting concerned that maybe there's a twist in my elevator counterweight sections... or maybe I backed the connectors out too much. Not being able to sleep I got searching the interwebs and found a post that in short said the #1 factor is that the Elevators must be parallel to the HS. And on top of that you need to have the connectors a minimum of 3/8 inch or about 9 turns in.
Went out to the garage and started losing one of the connectors... got 3 turns and then it was out. Did the other and got about 8 turns... if there's that much of a difference then it's obviously not parallel.
* So are the elevators parallel to the HS when properly installed?
Going off this new found assumption I decided to start this process over on the right elevator. I measured the 7/8 depth and move the nut down to that level. Set the other one to that level as well and screwed them both in.
I then drew a line between a set of inboard rivets and set of outboard rivets on both the elevator and the HS. This gives me a method to measure the distance between the gaps. If the distance is equal then they're parallel. Looks like this;
After tinkering with both sides I was able to get an even 1.5 inches between the rivets both inboard and outboard... so parallel I believe.
* There are still uneven gaps on between the HS ends and the counterweight arms. Can this be fixed?
So the end result of having both elevators on and spaced an evenly across the board with 1.5" between rivet lines still ends up with an uneven gap on the arms.
Left side is 1/8" aft and 1/4" at the tip of the arm.
right side is 1/8 aft and 5/16 far forward
Any help on this would be appreciated, going to now see what rivets I need to order with my new Horn pieces.
I literally did this maybe 30 times each side. I was struggling getting what I felt was an even 1/8" gap between the or 1/8" gap between the outboard edge of the HS and the counterweight arm of the elevators. I got it as close as I felt I could get it without it rubbing and moved on with drilling the horns, making the wood wedge and drilling the bottom part of the horn. Happy with my progress I went to bed.....
However something wasn't sitting right. I start getting concerned that maybe there's a twist in my elevator counterweight sections... or maybe I backed the connectors out too much. Not being able to sleep I got searching the interwebs and found a post that in short said the #1 factor is that the Elevators must be parallel to the HS. And on top of that you need to have the connectors a minimum of 3/8 inch or about 9 turns in.
Went out to the garage and started losing one of the connectors... got 3 turns and then it was out. Did the other and got about 8 turns... if there's that much of a difference then it's obviously not parallel.
* So are the elevators parallel to the HS when properly installed?
Going off this new found assumption I decided to start this process over on the right elevator. I measured the 7/8 depth and move the nut down to that level. Set the other one to that level as well and screwed them both in.
I then drew a line between a set of inboard rivets and set of outboard rivets on both the elevator and the HS. This gives me a method to measure the distance between the gaps. If the distance is equal then they're parallel. Looks like this;
After tinkering with both sides I was able to get an even 1.5 inches between the rivets both inboard and outboard... so parallel I believe.
* There are still uneven gaps on between the HS ends and the counterweight arms. Can this be fixed?
So the end result of having both elevators on and spaced an evenly across the board with 1.5" between rivet lines still ends up with an uneven gap on the arms.
Left side is 1/8" aft and 1/4" at the tip of the arm.
right side is 1/8 aft and 5/16 far forward
Any help on this would be appreciated, going to now see what rivets I need to order with my new Horn pieces.