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The drawings and instructions call up 26 No Fafnir double row ball bearing rod ends. Total cost of these is about $ 2,000.
I built my RV6 15 years ago. It has now done 1,100 hours, of which about 500 hours has been energetic +6 G/-3 G aerobatics. There has never been an issue with the Heim female rod ends and the Heim spherical aileron hinge bearings.
The Heim rod ends appear to be about 50% of the cost of the Fafnir bearings and have a load capacity about 60% higher.Cost is not an issue here, so if I am missing something else, please set me right.
On Sheet 10 of 14 of the Skybolt drawings they show the lower end of the aileron slave strut fitted with 490HT15P rod end and fork.I can find the rod end at Spruce but cannot seem to find a suitable fork. Can you assist?
I built my RV6 15 years ago. It has now done 1,100 hours, of which about 500 hours has been energetic +6 G/-3 G aerobatics. There has never been an issue with the Heim female rod ends and the Heim spherical aileron hinge bearings.
The Heim rod ends appear to be about 50% of the cost of the Fafnir bearings and have a load capacity about 60% higher.Cost is not an issue here, so if I am missing something else, please set me right.
On Sheet 10 of 14 of the Skybolt drawings they show the lower end of the aileron slave strut fitted with 490HT15P rod end and fork.I can find the rod end at Spruce but cannot seem to find a suitable fork. Can you assist?
