Monday, June 26, 2017

Fuselage

Control Stick Bases ( 2 hrs )

Primed, then finish painted 4 Rudder Cable Links and the Wiring Channel Ass'ly (goes under dash in center).  Installed LH & RH Control Stick Bases per Sect 36-11.   LH side required thin shim to take up space between bearings - otherwise bearings bound up when AN4-37A bolt/nut tightened.  Aaargh...  But the RH side fit perfectly.   Installed the Stick Link Pushrod (ties LH to RH Control Bases for Ailerons).  Very challenging to align for the 2 inner washers....struggled nearly 30 min before success.  Thank you washer wrenches !
Limited access, and hard to see to install washers.
Not tightened yet...  waiting to measure if  joysticks 
will be parallel.   Note the Control Base has already 
been installed with long AN4-73A bolt.

Sweet...LH & RH side connected
 via pushrod (grey bar below)