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Bob's Searey LSX Web Site
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Date: 3-1-2015
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Number of Hours: 13.50
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Manual Reference: Section 10
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Brief Description: Rudder/Throttle assembly part 2
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OK... lots of news since the last post on many fronts, but I am still wading through Section 10.
First off it is gratifying to realize that people are actually reading my posts, not that I do it to garner subscriptions or replies. Steve, my only build partner so far, has let me know that he is monitoring me from afar to make sure that I keep up the effort. And Noel, relocated to the land of roos and barbies... is the Dremel I bought you years ago likely to show up in the shipment of our household goods from Pulau Langkawi that is hitting dockside Vancouver next week?
I visited my dear papa and all my siblings in the old hometown last weekend. We cleaned out the family homestead and I laid claim to most of the decades of accumulated tools including a lot of really usefull stuff: a drill press, a bench grinder, a jigsaw, a hole saw, some clamps, but alas... no Dremel. So Noel... here's hoping. I am really leery of cutting into the FRP hull to install the airframe in Section 5 so am using the excuse of not having a Dremel to hold off until I work up the nerve.
Meanwhile, continuing with Section 10: this is a fun section, lots of mechanical assembling and banging away with the rivet gun. 64 rivets alone for the four rudder pedals... you want a good quality 1/8" drill bit! I busted one right away and went into town to buy some decent cobalt bits.
Earlier in the week I sent an Excel spreadsheet to Alan Chandler at PA, at his request, listing all the thread end drilled bolts, castle nuts and cotter pins described in the manual, with comments as to whether they are included in the kit parts (not many are). Apparently this issue arises because the kit is for an LSX (experimental) but the manual is for an LSA (FAA certified). Whatever! For some reason Canadian experimental builders have to follow the FAA requirements, but not our Yankee brethren.
Step 11 led to a bit of confusion as the photo shows two jam nuts on each end of the tie rods, but the instructions (and the parts inventory) indicate only one.
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Pedals and sticks
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Looking like a plane
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