Seat adjust handle

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GAHorn
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Re: Seat adjust handle

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Seats get swapped among airplanes (which can lead to all kinds of troubles ... for example, when AD notes are issued... but, I’ve seen both straight (with a plastic knob) and curved ends.

Another method to bend tubing is to slip a screen-door type spring over the length of the tube and bend the entire assembly... them slide the spring off the tube.
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Re: Seat adjust handle

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skifast13 wrote:Thank you both. A straight handle would make the most sense to me. The curved handle puts rotational stress on the weakest portion of the rod (ridge), leading to this. Love this '52 170 and want to keep her perfect, than you for being enablers.

I agree, my brief to Pax is do not pull up here. I have been thinking about cutting it off.
Tim
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