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Building Tips and technical articles. => Building techniques => Topic started by: Jerry Reider on January 03, 2010, 07:34:58 PM
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Getting my elevator at 0 and my leadouts even has always been a crap shoot to some degree for me. I came up with a method to get this right for sure. When I make my leadouts I always make them the same length. I clamped a piece of 1/2 x 3/8 x 4" maple to top and bottom of the elevator/stabilizer assembly to hold the elevator at 0. I bent a piece of about .05 music wire as shown in the picture below. I threaded it through the end wire loops of my leadouts. I hung the music wire fixture from a water pipe in my basement. I then added a weight to the landing gear to get the main spar plumb. I was able to mark and cut off the pushrod and solder the clevis into the exact location while having my elevator at 0 and my leadouts even on the ends. Since I always start with equal length leadouts I know that my Bellcrank is also at 0.
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Neat trick. Close to what I do. Sure beats the "by guess and by God" method or TLAR system. H^^
TLAR
A term often used by Rollin.
did he get it from you, or vice versa! ???
Roger V.
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Roger, TLAR has been around for a long time. I had my first argument about it in 1970. I had studied plastics technology at university and designed a plastic component for the Leyland Mini that we were building in Australia but my boss' TLAR was twice as thick as my strength calculations indicated.
We compromised by settling on a mid-point thickness and the couple of examples that I saw last year were still going fine. LL~ #^
Cheers, Geoff
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Thanks Geoff.
My first "hearing" of the term was in the 90's.
Happy New Year!
Roger
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Is that as good as the "KISS" principle?
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.......? ???
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Sort of like another engineering term: SWAG.
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Is that as good as the "KISS" principle?
yes Doc! LL~
Roger V.
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It is so good to be able to have a bit of a laugh without acrimony.
Over the last 24 hours, I have been on on a Sydney-based political blog where three regulars have been playing a bit of a game with words that sound the same, are spelled differently and have very different meanings. It was all a game but there were still a couple of people who chose to make things unpleasant.
As I said, it is so good to be able to have a bit of a laugh without acrimony.
Thank you H^^
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What good is living if we can't have fun. But, some people can't take what they dish out.