GENTS, On finishing a profile with a control rod that cannt be removed. Is there a simpler way to do the finish work? Or is that area in behind the rod always going to be a pain in the butt? Thanks Steve D.
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If the rod is built in, as most all are, then it will remain a pain.
J
Steve --
One tip is to set-up the pushrod guide, but don't install it. Then a Big Strong Handsome Wife can move the pushrod around while you spray. Install the guide and control horn when the finish is complete.
Larry F
>Steve --
>
>One tip is to set-up the
>pushrod guide, but don't install
>it. Then a Big Strong
>Handsome Wife can move the
>pushrod around while you spray.
>Install the guide and control
>horn when the finish is
>complete.
>
>Larry F
>
>One tip is to set-up the
>pushrod guide, but don't install
>it. Then a Big Strong
>Handsome Wife can move the
>pushrod around while you spray.
>Install the guide and control
>horn when the finish is
>complete.
>
>Larry F
I hope that you use a paint scheme that goes with here make-up.
Leonard Neumann
This is a case where finishing the fuselage prior to assembly makes a lot of sense. Or conversely, making the pushrods removable. Getting your stong, handsome wife involved is probably not a good idea. Designing a color scheme that will camoflage the pushrod is a good plan, tho. Steve
Leonard --
>I hope that you use a
>paint scheme that goes with
>her make-up.
The Big Strong Handsome Wife uses only Brodak make-up.
Larry F
mrwhizkers · Jul 02, 2001 07:13 PM
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If a pushrod is not removable, does that mean that it is not adjustable? Risky business!!
On most profiles, the pushrod is removable to some degree, but in our built up ships we don't make the pushrod removable. We carefully slide the stabilizer back and forth until the elevators are neutral when the flaps are neutral. You can always "tweak" them slightly afterwards if there is some need, but this will get them quite accurate. Several people make adjustable elevator horns which allow you to adjust the throw ratio--a useful tool to compensate for too much flap (or too little weight), but, again, the pushrod is fixed. I see no reason why building a profile should be any different. And if you have bolt on horns, you can put little shims (1/64 plywood) under the flap horn to decrease the flap throw in relation to the elevator throw. This is a poor man's adjustable horn.
Leonard Neumann
You can take a soda straw and split it in sort of a spiral and work it over the pushrod and spray or brush away without getting paint on the pushrod.
Jim Thomerson