Brief Description: Finished trimming elevator stops
I called Van’s first thing this morning. The only way to get to the maximum nose down limit is to trim more off of the aft deck, and some of the lower portion of the elevator horn. The horn will start to hit the F812 bulkhead. Van’s said that this was OK; they also said that my nose up limit being over is OK since it was by such a small amount; they told me that if I wanted I could rivet a tab onto the horn so the horn will contact the stop at the maximum travel limit.
As I got to trimming the aft deck and taking readings on how mush travel I was getting I made the decision to not go for the maximum nose up limit (30degrees). I stopped because I did not want to cut more off of the aft deck; I wanted to leave 3D edge distance from the rivets along the back line. I really did not want to cut more off and this also makes sure the elevator horn does not hit the aft bulkhead. I am will be in the heart of the allowable nose up travel limits of (25-30), I get 27.6 degrees with the stop where it is at. Since the right horn is just aft of the left this will end up being my max nose up limit. I get 26.6 degrees for my nose down limit which is over by 1.6 degrees. I repeated the process for the left side and came up with 29.1 nose up and 26.0 nose down. Since the left horn is forward of the right horn the left becomes the limiter for the nose up so now I am only 1 degree over the limit.
