Will,You don't say whether radial or axial 'slop'.Greasing the dried out
bearings
usually causes the Tufnol to expand in a direction perpendicular to the plane
of the fabric, which would remove some axial slop but can cause the bearing
to go tight/sticky.I don't know how you would remove radial slop; grease would
be quickly displaced from the imperfect bearing contact of this item.
Duncan McF
----Original Message----
From: wdaniell.longport@gmail.com
Date: 14/12/2017 17:49
Subj: Europa-List: Control slop
For the assembled wisdom
I have a minor amount of slop in my controls from the tufnol bearings at front
and back of the cockpit module. I don't notice it in flight but it's an
imperfection
and l guess we all know how that feels. This is derived either from
build or some kind of drying out/shrinkage over the considerable lapse between
assembling flying controls and flight.
My thoughts were to drill a hole in the top of the tufnol bearing into which I
could inject grease - maybe damping grease.
Anyone got any other ideas that don't include major surgery?
Will
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