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Hey all!
I'm the new owner of N9QT, a 50th anniversary Pitts S2B (any previous owners out there?).
I just flew the airplane for the first time yesterday after my ferry pilot took it most of the way across country from Memphis to Northern California (it's now based at Gnoss field in Marin County). There are a handful of minor bugs to work out with the airplane but the big one is that the propeller lever is nearly impossible to move. This airplane has The Claw on it. It feels like the prop lever is sticking to the nylon ring where the rod goes into the panel in the back cockpit, but that doesn't seem like a spot that would have as much friction as I'm feeling on it. We tried some silicon spray and it made it a tiny bit better, but it's still terrible. It's almost un-flyable like this; you have to kind of wiggle it to get it to move the small amount you need to adjust RPM - if you really pull on it, it'll suddenly release and pop-out way too far. Come to think of it, the throttle cable is pretty stiff, also.
Anyone else seen or fixed this? The exploded diagrams don't tell me much. I'm hoping it's not an issue with the actuating arm on the governor, but who knows at this point.
thanks!
Hoagy
I'm the new owner of N9QT, a 50th anniversary Pitts S2B (any previous owners out there?).
I just flew the airplane for the first time yesterday after my ferry pilot took it most of the way across country from Memphis to Northern California (it's now based at Gnoss field in Marin County). There are a handful of minor bugs to work out with the airplane but the big one is that the propeller lever is nearly impossible to move. This airplane has The Claw on it. It feels like the prop lever is sticking to the nylon ring where the rod goes into the panel in the back cockpit, but that doesn't seem like a spot that would have as much friction as I'm feeling on it. We tried some silicon spray and it made it a tiny bit better, but it's still terrible. It's almost un-flyable like this; you have to kind of wiggle it to get it to move the small amount you need to adjust RPM - if you really pull on it, it'll suddenly release and pop-out way too far. Come to think of it, the throttle cable is pretty stiff, also.
Anyone else seen or fixed this? The exploded diagrams don't tell me much. I'm hoping it's not an issue with the actuating arm on the governor, but who knows at this point.
thanks!
Hoagy