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Have you ever seen the little dings on the side skins just forward of the tail group? They are slow down. Had someone just recently, Charlie Eck it was, said that he though the dents on the top tail cone skins were caused by something besides people moving the airplane around. Charlie want to expand on this. Warren -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 4:31 PM To: Coupers Tech Subject: Re: [COUPERS-TECH] Elevator cable tension ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- Sounded high to us too. So we set the ones in my Alon to approximately 130 lbs, which was the maximum indicated by the instrument my mechanic owned. Seemed to work OK and he didn't think it was a problem, based on experience with other aircraft. David N6359V Jim Read wrote: > > ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- > > The rigging instructions in the maintenance manual (such as it is) calls > for 160-180 pounds of tension on the elevator cables, which are 5/32" in > thickness. This seems to me to be a bit on the high side, even given > the thickness. As I'm reluctant to torque the back off the aircraft I > thought I'd seek opinion before cinching them up. > Thanks in advance. > Jim Read --------------------------------- to unsubscribe send mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________________________________________________ T O P I C A -- Learn More. Surf Less. Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Topics You Choose. http://www.topica.com/partner/tag01 --------------------------------- to unsubscribe send mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________________________________________________ T O P I C A -- Learn More. Surf Less. Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Topics You Choose. http://www.topica.com/partner/tag01
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