I've used aluminum channel with pressed in ball bearings , 3/16" I.D. [ to match bolts] backing them up with blocking washers aluminum tube inserts. Should last forever. Bronze oilight flange bushings pressed in place would be the same. KRRon
---- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 10:34 AM Subject: KR>Hinges > I used the aluminum channel on mine. Guys who have been flying with them > tell me they wear badly and soon. Especially the rudder. Many drill them out and > put in bushings. If I were to do it over, I would use steel channel. Steel > would weigh more but, not as much as the pushrod ends. Lynn N37LH > > I am going to use the new airfoil elevator and rudder. > Question is what size of chanel aluminum to use for the > hinges? I don't want to get my hinges in a bind. I don't > want to use pushrod ends either. (plans built, cost, > weight, you know the stuff.) Mark I couldn't get on to > your site to look at what you did. > > Steve Phillabaum > [email protected] > Auburn, Alabama > > > _______________________________________________ > see KRnet list details at http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html > >
