Date: 08-30-2025
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Number of Hours: 5.00
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Short Description: working on brake pedal linkages
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One of the things I learned today is that you can't put a 1/16 th cotter pin into a 1/16 th drilled hole. You can't even put it into a 5/64 th hole. You can just barely get it into a 3/32 nd inch drilled hole, if you go to a grinder and taper down the inserting end. And it's an interference fit at that point. But I'm moving forward with cotter pinning the pivot points in my rudder pedal/brake pedal assemblies. This would have been much easier if I had built the entire sub-assembly on the work bench, and put it into the airplane completely done. I also might have figured out required clearances between the pivot bolts and the mounting bolts. It's agonizingly slow, but it's progress.
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