O/K. I'm now officially annoyed. Brought the Bear to the field today and had another hairy flight. Landing took out another set of pins and even damaged the struts. Was not even that hard a touch down. However, had to make several attempts to land and when emptying the tank figured I was on my last 20-30 seconds of fuel. Hoo Doggy!
Make note cutting down the elevator made little difference in total throw, (still approx 1/4" up or down) with this being by far the absolute most pitch sensitive bird I have ever dealt with in 3 decades. So bad I could not accurately define pitch changes when flaps deployed.
This is going to be grounded until I can cut them down again and get rid of ANY binding in the controls. Found even with a 100 oz/in servo slight deflections would not have it return to neutral every time.