Elevator Counterbalance

I ran across a neat trick on vansairforce.net for adjusting the elevator counterbalance.  I installed a 1/4″ nutplate through the forward tooling hole in the counterbalance ribs.


This lets you add or remove washers (probably large area washers) here to balance the elevators.  Ideally, you would want to have a few washers here to balance the elevator without paint, then remove them and adjust the amount of lead to balance the surfaces after paint.

I didn’t get any pictures, but I also riveted on the elevator tips.

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