Return-Path: Sender: (Marvin Kaye) To: lml Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 09:56:22 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.120.22] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.4) with ESMTP id 2606893 for lml@lancaironline.net; Sun, 28 Sep 2003 09:27:16 -0400 Received: from dialup-67.31.195.210.dial1.tampa1.level3.net ([67.31.195.210] helo=earthlink.net) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1A3bZy-0002Zf-00 for lml@lancaironline.net; Sun, 28 Sep 2003 06:27:14 -0700 X-Original-Message-ID: <3F76E271.5060601@earthlink.net> X-Original-Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 09:30:25 -0400 From: Capt D User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Original-To: lml@lancaironline.net Subject: lml LNC2 Elevator Balance Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Angier, Glad to hear that we both stopped reading the manual years ago. ha Marv's reply was pretty accurate. There is enough hinge friction there to mess up your balance. And yes, my hinges are perfectly aligned. ;-) Using the KISS method, I simply put a few phillips screws in a 2x4, and ran safety wire from the elevator hinges to the screws. Once the elevator is hanging, the hinge friction is eliminated and can be balanced more easily. Also, keep in mind that lead dust is toxic stuff. Regards, D. Story, ATP