Friday, 8 August 2008
I need more lock washers and K-Locs
So my starter was getting flakey. I was fearing the worst, might need a new starter, or at least a new relay.
Nope. Turns out the signal wire (the one that tells it to "start") was just dangling on the bolt, with no nut! The thing had backed off nearly an entire inch in one of my flights.
I'm always amazed at how screw + nut + vibration = lost nut. I would think it would 'vibrate' randomly, but for some reason, it tends to favor 'unscrew and fall off'. Which is why, I presume, they invented lock washers, or nuts like the K-Loc.
I think I need to make a sweep of all the nuts on my plane, and make sure they are k-locs or have lock washers.
Posted by at 12:38 PM in News about my Long-EZ or other noteworthy aviation news.
