Back during the change of the year I kind of felt the need to get something done on control system parts. To get a parts done I deviated from my drawings and simplified the torque arm for the elevators at the control torque tube. The simplified part sure looked nice.
This arm was formed from a piece of ¾ square tube, drilled, cut, then ground, it is shown with a ½ tube as a jig to align it for welding in place.
It sure looked nice but I was not getting the warm and fuzzies. Granted the fuselage was upright and low the the ground such that I could not get my eyes on it.
Sure enough, once the fuse was flipped over and I was jigging the rudder rockers it was very clear to me I will have a heavy interference with contact to the left rudder rocker with aft stick.
I think I took the pictures in that session deliberately not showing the mistake, kind of like hiding from it.
But the rework of the arm came to me during a redeisgn while sleeping so today amongst other projects the arm now comes aft and down as I had drawn it.
Yup, one should not deviate from the plans especially when you draw your own plans, no pictures really show the issue but the original arm was to com back and down, kind of like this.
This might not be the final part as it is a bit rough but works as a proof of concept for now.