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DaveU
Joined: 16 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 9:47 am Post subject: Transport jury struts |
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I do not know exactly who told me this, but I believe it was Jamie S. when he was still at Just.
ON the forward horizontal attache bolt, that everyone will have soon, install a tab just like the flying wire tabs. There is a corresponding tab on the rear lift strut bracket for the other end of the transport strut. I bought a piece of 1/2" tubing, 3 feet long out of the hobby metal rack at Ace Hardware. I bought 4 - 5/16" fine thread bolts (length was about 2 1/2") I welded the head of the bolts onto the tubing so that I had a finished length (from the end of the threads on one end to the end of the threads on the other) of 19 3/8". The clevis ends that came on the brake cylinders thread right onto the fine thread bolts and there you have the transport strut. photo attached.
DAVe
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alan
Joined: 04 Feb 2005
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Location: Baytown, TX
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| Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:21 am Post subject: |
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Wow, nice Dave.
I took a piece of EMT, squished the ends in my vice, drilled a 3/16" hole in them, and attached with a clevis pin on each end. Mine are simpler, but yours are much classier.
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Wes
Joined: 23 Jan 2006
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Location: Satellite Bch, Florida
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| Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 6:03 pm Post subject: Folded Wing Support Struts |
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Dave,
SWEET!
I was wondering how to make those struts and what to do with those left over brake pieces, now I'm ready.
Mind if I plagerize?
Nice job!
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pdeinin
Joined: 23 Jun 2007
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Location: New Orleans
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| Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 3:26 pm Post subject: more stability |
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| This information was very useful. Would it provide more stability the wings if there was an arm between the two support struts that would anchor them against flexing? |
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