tonyhoskins
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Morning all (well it is for me anyway)
Good old nightshift again for me tonight and this time I've got the Stabs and Elevators in the workshop following paintstripping and initial rub down at home. As per the rest of my parts, these are being stripped to absolute bare metal, polished, inspected etc etc blah blah - but during a tea and thinking moment I wondered are these units handed?
I realise of course that these units are drilled to fit the stab through tube hence they will only fit that particular side with that particular combination of through tube and tailplane. However seeing as I am replacing both through tubes with new (Univair) examples and will therefore be drilling new holes in the through tube - this issue doesn't matter.
So I currently have two pretty good tailplane units (and one spare) which look identical - but are they....? I'm sure for ease Piper would have made them from the same jig, but can anyone just confirm this for me - I would hate to have 3 left units, or I restore 2 left units and leave a right unit as a spare.
Rgds Tony
Good old nightshift again for me tonight and this time I've got the Stabs and Elevators in the workshop following paintstripping and initial rub down at home. As per the rest of my parts, these are being stripped to absolute bare metal, polished, inspected etc etc blah blah - but during a tea and thinking moment I wondered are these units handed?
I realise of course that these units are drilled to fit the stab through tube hence they will only fit that particular side with that particular combination of through tube and tailplane. However seeing as I am replacing both through tubes with new (Univair) examples and will therefore be drilling new holes in the through tube - this issue doesn't matter.
So I currently have two pretty good tailplane units (and one spare) which look identical - but are they....? I'm sure for ease Piper would have made them from the same jig, but can anyone just confirm this for me - I would hate to have 3 left units, or I restore 2 left units and leave a right unit as a spare.
Rgds Tony
