SR-Rudder RU-420 shortage
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:47 pm
Hello again! This SR is starting to piss me off, or maybe it's just my mood
today with this damn backhoe of mine that is keeping me from working on the
SR, as it blew the right rear axle seal out this morning (as well as it
looks like the bearings) and now I'm having it picked up by OnTrac to put a
few more "Grand" into it!
Anyhow, once I finally got back at the rudder this afternoon, to do the 3500
upgrade plate and gussets, I was not only short the previously mentioned
.040 RWST for the plates, I also found that the supplied RU-420 material is
not long enough to make 4 pieces. It is supplied at 21" long and to pick up
4 rivets on the rib flanges like shown in the upgrade instructions the
gussets need to be cut just shy of 5 3/4" each. That is 23" total if you
have a narrow blade cutting the pieces!
I am sharing this stuff, for those that haven't got here yet, so you can
measure what you have and inform MAM of your shortages before you are trying
to work on the stuff and have to stop and wait for material. I know all of
you don't have a 9 year collection of scraps and sheet stock, as I do, to
keep you going through dilemma's like these.
Regards,
Wayne G. O'Shea
www.irishfield.on.ca
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today with this damn backhoe of mine that is keeping me from working on the
SR, as it blew the right rear axle seal out this morning (as well as it
looks like the bearings) and now I'm having it picked up by OnTrac to put a
few more "Grand" into it!
Anyhow, once I finally got back at the rudder this afternoon, to do the 3500
upgrade plate and gussets, I was not only short the previously mentioned
.040 RWST for the plates, I also found that the supplied RU-420 material is
not long enough to make 4 pieces. It is supplied at 21" long and to pick up
4 rivets on the rib flanges like shown in the upgrade instructions the
gussets need to be cut just shy of 5 3/4" each. That is 23" total if you
have a narrow blade cutting the pieces!
I am sharing this stuff, for those that haven't got here yet, so you can
measure what you have and inform MAM of your shortages before you are trying
to work on the stuff and have to stop and wait for material. I know all of
you don't have a 9 year collection of scraps and sheet stock, as I do, to
keep you going through dilemma's like these.
Regards,
Wayne G. O'Shea
www.irishfield.on.ca
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