Mailing List lml@lancaironline.net Message #28349
From: <Sky2high@aol.com>
Sender: Marvin Kaye <marv@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Re: [LML] LNC2 Control Surface Hinges
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:33:59 -0500
To: <lml@lancaironline.net>
In a message dated 2/17/2005 11:58:14 A.M. Central Standard Time, 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,
 
McMaster-Carr:
 
 
.0955  see online catalog page bottom 2325:
High-Speed Steel Decimal Chucking Reamer .0940" To .1090" Diameter Range
$11.49 Each
 
 
See page 3147.  I used 316L 3/32" SS welding rod:
 
316L Stainless Steel— For welding Type 316 and Type 316L stainless steel, and for high-temperature applications. These rods have excellent corrosion resistance.
 
$12.40 for 14 rods in a 1 # pkg.  Each rod has about 30 usable inches.  I got 8 6.5 inch pins from 2 rods (elevator and ailerons) and 6 10.5 inch pins (flaps) from 3 rods.
 
I should note that my fingers were worn out by hand twisting the reamer thru the hinge halves - especially those I left attached to the movable control surfaces.  The smaller 6.5 inch hinges can be "clean-reamed" by putting the ream in a power drill and inserting it from either end save for the middle loop.
 
Scott Krueger AKA Grayhawk
Lancair N92EX IO320 SB 89/96
Aurora, IL (KARR)

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