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ter_turn(at)yahoo.com
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 Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 12:09 pm Post subject: FYI Cable Tensions, etc. |
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Sabrina, were your cables pre-loaded and set to the correct tension originally, or did you just "eyeball....feel" the tension? Interesting that the cables lost that much tension in just a short time!!! Thanks.
Terry Turnquist
601XL-Plans
St. Peters MO
Sabrina <chicago2paris(at)msn.com> wrote:[quote] --> Zenith601-List message posted by: "Sabrina"
All numbers in pounds as read on a Certified Burroughs Cable Gauge by my IA 11/7/08:
Right Aileron found to be 25 adjusted to 35
Left Aileron found to be 25 adjusted to 35
Aileron Balance found to be >>>20
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planecrazydld(at)yahoo.co
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| Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 5:07 am Post subject: FYI Cable Tensions, etc. |
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something else to keep in mind, Way back when Burt Rutan worked for Jim Bede in Newton Kansas, they ran control cable through nylon tubing over some obstruction that was attached to a door so that when people used the door it moved the cable in the tube. What they found, if I recall correctly, was that the cable wears more rapidly than the tubing. We may need to insect the cables for wear as well where the pass the fairleads?
David L. Downey
Harleysville (SE) PA, USA
--- On Fri, 11/7/08, Sabrina <chicago2paris(at)msn.com> wrote:
[quote]From: Sabrina <chicago2paris(at)msn.com>
Subject: Re: FYI Cable Tensions, etc.
To: zenith601-list(at)matronics.com
Date: Friday, November 7, 2008, 10:26 PM
[quote]--> Zenith601-List message posted by: "Sabrina"
<chicago2paris(at)msn.com>
They were set with identical model cable gauges. The only problem is that
over the telephone in November of 2007, and there may have been a lot of static
on the line, what was heard from Zenith was ALL cables: 25 +/- 5, with the
caveat: light side on the rudder, heavy side on the elevator. There was
another conversation where 30 +/- 5 was mentioned but the voice was not
recognized and they made no differentiation between any particular control
surface.
So too, this time an IA did it.
| Quote: | From what I recall, and from what I can decipher from my notes at this
time, this is what they were set at originally in November of 2007:
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right aileron set to 25 found to be 25.....OK
left aileron set to 25 found to be 25.......OK
balance cable set to 25 found at 20........it runs through [quote][b]
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