Brief Description: Made the rudder pedal flute tubes and the the rudd
More fun work today. Made a carrier to hold the flute tube firmly while being markeed and drilled. Remembered a hint from earlier builders - to mark a straight line down a tube, sit the tube in a piece of angle then run the line down the edge of the angle. Took some thinking to find the points at right angles to the row of main holes for the end holes. Ended up holding the tube upright on a piece of paper and marking around the tube and the main hole line. Then marked the paper circle into quadrants, put the tube back on top again and transfered the right angle marks back to the tube.
Found all the parts for rudder pedal assemblies. Eventually worked out how it all went together. Had to drill out slightly smaller large area washers as the 1/4" ones were too large and fouled the push-rod end fittings.
I guess it might have cost more - but it would have been a good idea to have LH threads on one end of each push-rod and RH threads on the other. Then the tube could simply have been rotated to lenghten or shorten. As both ends have RH threads, one end fitting had to be disconnected and spun to adjust rod length. Makes fine adjustments hard.
Got to play with the light torque wrench again.
Drilling the fulte tube on patented tube holder.
2 Finished flute tubes
Tensioning the last bolt & nut on the rudder pedal assemblies
