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Date:  4-8-2017
Number of Hours:  4.00
Manual Reference:  16-4
Brief Description:  Rear stick Taper Pins

Now that I've begun working on the common sump I need to get back to the control system linkages so that I can see where things are going to sit.

This is one of those parts in the build where items are getting finalised rather than ... "I'll sort that out later" That 'later' moment in time is arriving on several fronts. I have to make feed pipes from the strakes to the common sump and the stick controls are in this area so I really need to know exactly where they end up.

I had three goes at making the inner steel piece you see in pic 1. I have no idea why it was hard. I made the first to plans but of course my common sump changes all that. In the end I remembered that I wanted taper pins here and I could see this was a no slop solution compared to drilling out 1/4" holes and bolting things per plans. Maybe if you are an engineer you can do perfect holes and get precision fit bolts. I like taper pins.

Pic 2 shows my hand reamer for this job and it takes a while but you end up with a zero slop result. Pic 3 just shows the castle nuts I'll use with pins for the final fit up. For now they are just loose so I can pull things apart easily while I do test fitting. The universal joint is a spare too. I have the final one drilled out but now sitting in a box. This is going to be pulled apart a lot while I do the sump work.
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Rear stick

Rear stick

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Taper pin reaming

Taper pin reaming

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Pin castle nuts

Pin castle nuts

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