Right now, it's about 3:00 on Saturday the 20th. I'm pretty busy working on the plane and haven't bothered to update this for a while, so there's going to be a series of posts that cover the last few days.
I finally finished the ailerons! The replacement AN509-8R16s arrived. I still can't remember what the new MS designation is, but the last two digits in that code do not match the AN suffixes. In other words, I had several collections of the wrong size sitting around before the correct ones arrived. I primed the lead because I have no idea how well the priming covered the inside of the steel tubes. I realized that there was actually a fair amount of binding on the steel tube rather than the lead. I used a #19 drill bit and re-drilled the factory holes and used a lot of 'English' (precessing the drill bit while drilling through the hole) and viola! -- the AN509's slipped in easily. The left side went together w/o problem. The right side was noticeably loose since I had chased the lock nuts so I used blue lactite to securely hold them in place.
The photo shows the completed ailerons. In the foreground is the Right one and its uninstalled lead weights. In the background is the completed Left one. Note the fact that it is clearly nose heavy and has tilted forward since the center of mass is now in front of the center of rotation.
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