Originally Posted by
YellowAircraft
Hi,
Those of you who've built this bird: Did you have this much slop in your control-surface hinges? I'm building one for a guy, and on this one, the elevators can move up and down about 1/16" at the hinge-line, which amplifies out to almost 1/4" of slop at the elevator TE. The ailerons are nearly as sloppy--as though the wire that serves as the hinge-pin is too small for the hole in the G-10 hinges.
Thoughts?
https://youtu.be/bak87k46BXE
I had some slop on one of my ailerons. It flew fine, but I did eventually pull the metal hinge and got in there with some hysol to tighten things. It ended up that the was not enough glue on the fiberglass brackets in the wings. I have not had a problem with the elevator.
Tone