Rigging jury struts

[jtpitkin06]

Not possible on the SS Model 7. The struts have an upward angled fish mouth on the fuselage end. They are left and right specific and only go on one way.

As I stated, the problem was an upward warp of the strut.

The warp was probably caused by welding heat when fabricated. It was easily corrected once it was discovered.

John Pitkn
Greenville, TX

[Sabre]

I’ve been working on resolving an issue with the left jury strut installation and like John have a warped rear lift strut. However, the tube is warped forward (and a bit of a sag) towards the front lift strut tube about 3/16 to ¼” which, makes it impossible to correctly install an align the jury strut. I have tried to tweak the rear lift strut tube straight by supporting the ends and deflecting the tube more than 3” in the opposite direction with no detectable results in straightening the tube. It looks like when the tubes where welded together at the fuselage attach point that the angle was not correct (to small) resulting in the tube being pulled into place to weld the spacer at the wing attach point on the opposite end resulting in the warp. Trying to apply more force in the center of the tube does not seem like it will yield the desired straight tube at this point to me. Any ideas on how to proceed with this would be appreciated. Thanks, Greg