Adam,

Regarding hinge wear on the Legacy. This may have something to do with the alignment of the hinges at the factory. Both Ron Jones and myself experienced this and had to correct by slotting and re-setting our hinges for both elevators and rudder. We had problems with minor binding and the surfaces would not swing as freely as they should.

Our solution was to slot the bolt holes larger, with a line or string running through the holes, re-align the hinges. After we got the position we needed, flox was built up around the hinge to hold its place (with a release).After doing thing and putting the elevators and rudder back on the surfaces now move by blowing on them. A quite remarkable difference. I'm convinced this is what can cause excessive and premature wear.

The fix didn't take too much time, just getting past the "I can't believe this" was hard.

Hope this helps,
Don Barnes
Legacy 198