Tom Lyon Bearhawk 4B quick build

[TLyon]

Just adding my build log here for anyone that’s interested in looking.

[Have-Purple]

Are you in Ogden?

Here is the direct Url for your build log.

https://eaabuilderslog.org/?s=LyonBHawk

[TLyon]

Thank you and yes - live in Ogden fly out of KBMC

[Utah-Jay]

I am down in Heber City, might come visit at some point

[TLyon]

Anytime Jay, always appreciate another set of eyes in things.

[spinningwrench]

If you bought a Quickbuild Kit and before you close out your wings you might want to verify the correct torque on any hardware installed at the factory. You want to check for not only sufficient torque but too much torque. I found that all the AN3 hardware was torqued to close to 75 inch-lbs and in one case the nut was stripped. This is much easier to check before you close the wing out. I torque to 25 Inch-Lbs plus 5 for nut drag and calibrate my wrenches frequently.

[TLyon]

Thanks for pointing that out. That was one of the first things I checked since the sign taped on there says to do that. I didn’t find any stripped, but everything I checked was also over-torqued. Without getting to scientific about it, I broke a few that I removed on the bench just to have an idea what they go at, nothing made it over 120 in-lbs which was pretty close to where a couple news ones went at. So probably would have been ok? I don’t like thinking about things like that when I’m flying. I figured it was cheap peace of mind to replace all the hardware so that’s what I’m doing. And I’m using the same 25+5 in-lbs for torques.