USA: April 26, 2010 Blanik L-23's grounded

On May 31, 9:22*pm, ContestID67 wrote:
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

Actually, $0.06