In trying to plan for access to everything after covering I have a small delima, how to access the tube to adjust the hoizontal stabilizer incidence. I really liked Dave's idea of slotting washers then just loosening the bolts and slipping washers in and out as needed. This would require (to my minds eye) having the bolts mounted upside down. Loosen the nut, remove a washer from the top and slip it in the bottom to raise the stabilizer. Unfortunately, I cannot mount one of the bolts upside down because of a diagonal welded brace - - see photo.
I have fairly large Lexan access covers at the elevator/pushrod attach bearing location on each side of the fuselage and a fairly large access cover on the bottom ahead of the tailwheel, neither of which will be much help accessing these bolts.
So far, my only idea is typical access covers at the trailing edge of the turtleneck skin. Removing these two bolts through these access covers is not sounding like much fun to me. It will require opereating 'blind' plus I envision many dropped nuts and washers into the tail area. There has to be some ingenious solutions out there - - send me a photo
Thank you,
p.s. the photo shows the stabilizer located at zero incidence
I have fairly large Lexan access covers at the elevator/pushrod attach bearing location on each side of the fuselage and a fairly large access cover on the bottom ahead of the tailwheel, neither of which will be much help accessing these bolts.
So far, my only idea is typical access covers at the trailing edge of the turtleneck skin. Removing these two bolts through these access covers is not sounding like much fun to me. It will require opereating 'blind' plus I envision many dropped nuts and washers into the tail area. There has to be some ingenious solutions out there - - send me a photo
Thank you,
p.s. the photo shows the stabilizer located at zero incidence
