MK elevator misalignment (part 2)

[wgalligan]

I checked mine last night and I found the same thing.  Looseness and the tabs where not aligned.  I was wondering why I was having a bit of a problem with the differential when I was setting up.  I also noticed a slight snap in the setup and thought it was in my connectors being loose but it was the looseness of the assembled bellcrank. Know I know why.  When you tighted the assembly the tabs can twist due to the slop. I too did the c/a trick and it is tight and square now.  
BTW this was the black MK Bellcrank and I purchased it last June '02 from Central Hobbies.  Definitely a Japanese product as you could barely understand the broken English.

Wayne

   > I had the same problem with my MK belcrank that I had bought last year. It also had a slop in the movement.The fix I applied is similar just ca bonding a carbon strip on the flats and reshaping.
> BTW, I am expecting samples of a similar but different brand bb elev belcrank (a local brand look-alike model). I will let you know about their quality and possible availability of these ones when I receive the samples.
> Nedim
>   
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: NSRCA Canada-West 
>   To: discussion at nsrca 
>   Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 11:53 AM
>   Subject: MK elevator misalignment (part 2)
> 
> 
>   Hi folk's
> 
>   Further to my comments on the MK elevator alignment issue, I have had a couple e-mails from other builder flyers that 1) have no alignment problem and 2) do have an alignment problem. It appears as though it may be a bad batch so heads up.
> 
>   I have posted a page showing the problem and a possible solution. Hope this helps. http://members.shaw.ca/drev/mk.htm
> 
>   Thanks to Iiro Nikkila for bring this to my (our) attention & offering a solution.
> 
>   Dave
> 


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