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Dennis, are you referring to your recent DF35 build? I seemed to remember from your pictures that you used a stinger, the stuffing tube does not go thru the bore of the stinger, if it is Speed Master, there is already a liner in there. Forgive me if you are referring to something else.
I want to relate that I had the same problem with my Mean Machine build: the floating bushing is sooo loose in the 1/4'' liner, it is a Speed Master strut, I did it in a different way: instead od running the stuffing tube all the way thru the strut, I ran it in about 1/4", then I used another 1/4" brass tube, cut it to the length more or less the same as the floating busing, thread locked that in the strut bore. It is not the "correct" way, but I liked to have a minimum adjustbility at the front of the struct, also Jan at Kintec had told me this a while back.
Anyway, either the stuffing tube thru the bore or another 1/4" tube thread locked as liner, there should not be too much free play BETWEEN the tube/liner and the floating bushing. Guess what??? mine does, and despite knowledgeable reassurances I got from here, there still seems to be too much free play for me to accept as mechanically being sound. I gave up, ordered another strut ( cheaper Chinese clone) with teflon bushings, thus circumventing this issue.
Why I am bothered is that with this much free play, any unbalances from the prop will wear out the components quickly.
Just to be clear to everyone who is reading this: I know the bushing is/should be completely free floating in the tube/liner, with heavy grease, one doesn't feel the severity of the free play. Maybe these are recent production variances in tolerance.
We are talking about the gap between the o.d. of the bushing and that of the i.d. of the 1/4" tube.
I want to relate that I had the same problem with my Mean Machine build: the floating bushing is sooo loose in the 1/4'' liner, it is a Speed Master strut, I did it in a different way: instead od running the stuffing tube all the way thru the strut, I ran it in about 1/4", then I used another 1/4" brass tube, cut it to the length more or less the same as the floating busing, thread locked that in the strut bore. It is not the "correct" way, but I liked to have a minimum adjustbility at the front of the struct, also Jan at Kintec had told me this a while back.
Anyway, either the stuffing tube thru the bore or another 1/4" tube thread locked as liner, there should not be too much free play BETWEEN the tube/liner and the floating bushing. Guess what??? mine does, and despite knowledgeable reassurances I got from here, there still seems to be too much free play for me to accept as mechanically being sound. I gave up, ordered another strut ( cheaper Chinese clone) with teflon bushings, thus circumventing this issue.
Why I am bothered is that with this much free play, any unbalances from the prop will wear out the components quickly.
Just to be clear to everyone who is reading this: I know the bushing is/should be completely free floating in the tube/liner, with heavy grease, one doesn't feel the severity of the free play. Maybe these are recent production variances in tolerance.
We are talking about the gap between the o.d. of the bushing and that of the i.d. of the 1/4" tube.
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