Trim Indicators

[Hank Jarrett]

Re: Trim Indicators

Rats! Hard to focus on that plated surface.
Hank

[M Towsley]

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Hank,

You can box that up and forward to my address I gave you earlier today. hahaha...........

[Hank Jarrett]

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I have an extra un-plated one. The escutcheon plate under the handle was a brass one I found at a plumbing supply that was exactly the same as the original and had plated with the handle.
Hank

[M Towsley]

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Hank,

In a way, I wasn't kidding. Mine is incorrect so I was looking for an original and an escutcheon plate. A gentleman on here was going to look several weeks ago when he got out to the hangar, haven't heard anything yet. I know I can get the chrome one from Snyders, but will have to find the escutcheon plate. I'm just waiting to hear from the other gentleman to get back with me.

[Hank Jarrett]

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I think I paid less than $2 for the escutcheon plate from the plumbing section of the local hardware store (an old type one that does all kinds of plumbing, not a big box store where they don't know Douglas Fir from Rabbit fir). Of course the PLATING was a shock! I did a whole bucket of small parts and it was EXPENSIVE. What hurt was I was a plating engineer at the time and was down in the plating shop every couple of days. The guys would have probably done it for me for free as a "Loot job" but there was just no way I was going to rebuild my plane with Loot work. There isn't a single washer, nut or bolt in my plane from the Rework Facility or NASA.
Let me know about the handle. I have a real mess trying to get the drawings and parts sorted to mail out. Too many parts came together at the same time! I have BOXES of drawings, parts and placards. I need to figure out who needs what! I'm an engineer, not a supply guy.
Hank

[Robert Lees]

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EDIT: Rob,

Who's pictures are on the taylorcraft.org uk website of the trim system? Those were the pictures I was referring to. Thanks for the additional edit pic.

Marty, they are all from my rebuild G-BREY (the red & white one).

[M Towsley]

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Thanks Rob,that is what I thought. Now I also know why the wood was finished so nice, you have a skylight!

[TimHicks]

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I seem to have lost my trim indicator card (during my recover project).
It looks like my card was different anyway because, in my case, the little indicator wire that rotates, actually moved an arrow (about a vertical axis) that indicated "up" or "down". I don't have any great pictures of it. But may be the two below will help show it.

Anyway I'm thinking that I'll just make new card (without the extra arrow) using Hank's drawing and Rob's decals.

But since Hanks' drawing had no dimensions, I scaled it by measuring some of the other parts that are in the drawing that I haven't lost.
Not surprisingly, everything didn't scale the same.

So I created the drawing below with each dimension showing the range of error of my scaling. I think that for my first pass, I'll try to make one to all of the biggest dimensions.

[TimHicks]

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Here's the new Trim indicator card that I made.
From my previous post, you know that I estimated the dimensions by scaling the sketch from Hank.
And I printed Rob's graphic on a piece of clear Avery label.
The label wasn't as clear as I expected. But I like that it has a matte finish (not shiny). So I think that I'll keep it.

[Hank Jarrett]

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It looks really good to me. I like it!

Hank

[cvavon]

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looks good Tim see you wed. weather 50 deg and sun