Return-Path: Sender: "Marvin Kaye" To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:33:59 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from imo-d23.mx.aol.com ([205.188.139.137] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3c1) with ESMTP id 743262 for lml@lancaironline.net; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:30:09 -0500 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=205.188.139.137; envelope-from=Sky2high@aol.com Received: from Sky2high@aol.com by imo-d23.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r3.8.) id q.140.3e6027ba (16633) for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:29:14 -0500 (EST) From: Sky2high@aol.com X-Original-Message-ID: <140.3e6027ba.2f463c7a@aol.com> X-Original-Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:29:14 EST Subject: Re: [LML] LNC2 Control Surface Hinges X-Original-To: lml@lancaironline.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="-----------------------------1108664954" X-Mailer: 9.0 Security Edition for Windows sub 5000 -------------------------------1108664954 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Language: en =20 In a message dated 2/17/2005 11:58:14 A.M. Central Standard Time, =20 bobjude@charter.net writes: Congratulations on doing the right thing by your hinges, I want to do what you did but have not yet found a source for a suitable reamer. This seems to be the big unknown or the least publicized part of the operation. Where did you get your reamers? Bob, =20 McMaster-Carr: =20 _http://www.mcmaster.com/_ (http://www.mcmaster.com/)=20 =20 .0955 see online catalog page bottom 2325: High-Speed Steel Decimal Chucking Reamer .0940" To .1090" Diameter Rang= e=20 $11.49 Each =20 =20 See page 3147. I used 316L 3/32" SS welding rod: =20 316L Stainless Steel=E2=80=94 For welding Type 316 and Type 316L stainless=20= steel,=20 and for high-temperature applications. These rods have excellent corrosion=20 resistance. =20 $12.40 for 14 rods in a 1 # pkg. Each rod has about 30 usable inches. I=20 got 8 6.5 inch pins from 2 rods (elevator and ailerons) and 6 10.5 inch pin= s=20 (flaps) from 3 rods. =20 I should note that my fingers were worn out by hand twisting the reamer thr= u=20 the hinge halves - especially those I left attached to the movable control =20 surfaces. The smaller 6.5 inch hinges can be "clean-reamed" by putting the=20= =20 ream in a power drill and inserting it from either end save for the middle =20= loop. Scott Krueger AKA Grayhawk Lancair N92EX IO320 SB 89/96 Aurora, IL (KARR) Fair and Balanced Opinions at No Charge! There is an oxymoron in that, somewhere... -------------------------------1108664954 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Language: en
In a message dated 2/17/2005 11:58:14 A.M. Central Standard Time,=20 bobjude@charter.net writes:
<= FONT=20 style=3D"BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=3DArial color=3D#000000=20 size=3D2>Congratulations on doing the right thing by your hinges,  I=20= want=20 to do what
you did but have not yet found a source for a suitable=20 reamer.
This seems to be the big unknown or the least publicized part o= f=20 the
operation.
Where did you get your=20 reamers?
Bob,
 
McMaster-Carr:
 
 
.0955  see online catalog page bottom 2325:
 
 
See page 3147.  I used 316L 3/32" SS welding rod:
 
316L Stainless Steel=E2=80=94 For welding Type 316 and= Type 316L=20 stainless steel, and for high-temperature applications. These rods have=20 excellent corrosion resistance.
 
$12.40 for 14 rods in a 1 # pkg.  Each rod has about 30 usable=20 inches.  I got 8 6.5 inch pins from 2 rods (elevator and ailerons) = ;and=20 6 10.5 inch pins (flaps) from 3 rods.
 
I should note that my fingers were worn out by hand twisting the reamer= =20 thru the hinge halves - especially those I left attached to the movable cont= rol=20 surfaces.  The smaller 6.5 inch hinges can be "clean-reamed" by putting= the=20 ream in a power drill and inserting it from either end save for the middle=20 loop.
 
Scott Krueger=20 AKA Grayhawk
Lancair N92EX IO320 SB 89/96
Aurora, IL (KARR)

Fai= r=20 and Balanced Opinions at No Charge!
There is an oxymoron in that,=20 somewhere...

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High-Speed Steel Decimal Chucking Reamer .0940"=20= To=20 .1090" Diameter Range
$11.49 Each