Adam Dickson

RH and LH rib 8 bell-cranks torqued

I rejected the AN4 bolt originally supplied as plating on the grip had a patterning that was suggestive of some metal defect in the bolt itself. I polished off the cadmium plating on the original. There was no evidence of any metal defect - this patterning (which I have since seen on other bolts) is a phenomenon confined to the plating.

Using a replacement bolt I retorqued to 60 in-lbs, set using the vernier correctly (6.8Nm). Torque-marked subsequently.

This torque was increased to 7.9 Nm = 70 in-lb the upper limit of the AN4, and the left wing was also torqued to this level (nut was replaced and old torque marker removed), and marked with torque-marker.

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