Burt,

I know you asked for reports of cracks but...we testing our two L-23's
and found no cracks. However, we did find that both the elevator
bearings on the newer ship had slipped out of deformed races and
needed to be replaced. We got them from Blanik America quite quickly.

The bearings are a bitch to press out due to their location (unless
you disassemble the trim cables which is ever a worse bitch). So we
found that a small gear puller pushing against a nickle (US $0.05) was
just the right size to press out the old bearing and a penny (US
$0.01) was just the right size to press the new bearing back in.
Didn't do the coins much good but it worked.

My $0.02.

- John