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

"bildan" wrote Actually, $0.06

Actually, two bearings mean it would be his $0.12 worth. If you count both
ships, then his $0.24 worth!

sORry all, but you know you were thinking it! g
--
Jim in NC

OK, I was reminded by others that it was a dime (US $0.10) to press
the bearing out and a nickle (US $0.05) to press it back in. Any fool
knows that the presser-outer-coin needs to be smaller than the presser-
inner coin. This all adds up to $0.30 worth per tail. No wait, we
reused the coins so we are back down to $0.15 worth. Glad we got that
settled.

g

"Presser" John

On 6/4/2010 8:20 PM, ContestID67 wrote:
Snip...

"Presser" John

Cowabunga...now THERE's an historically obscure reference!

Bob W.