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1. 05:55 AM - Re: FEWMustang-List Digest: 3 Msgs - 12/27/03 (PolymerDesign@aol.com)
2. 06:56 AM - Re: Fw: tail wheel (Gary Gerber)
3. 07:02 AM - Re: Re: FEWMustang-List Digest: 3 Msgs - 12/27/03 (Gary Gerber)
4. 08:43 AM - Re: PSRU (Melvinke@aol.com)
5. 04:48 PM - Re: Re: FEWMustang-List Digest: 3 Msgs - 12/27/03 (PolymerDesign@aol.com)
6. 04:51 PM - Re: Fw: tail wheel (PolymerDesign@aol.com)
7. 04:57 PM - Re: Re: FEWMustang-List Digest: 3 Msgs - 12/27/03 (LRE2@aol.com)
8. 05:12 PM - Re: Fw: tail wheel (LRE2@aol.com)
9. 06:13 PM - Re: Re: FEWMustang-List Digest: 3 Msgs - 12/27/03 (PolymerDesign@aol.com)
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| Subject: | Re: FEWMustang-List Digest: 3 Msgs - 12/27/03 |
--> FEWMustang-List message posted by: PolymerDesign@aol.com
Has anyone come up with a good solution to operate the tailwheel doors? Ken
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| Subject: | Re: Fwd: tail wheel |
--> FEWMustang-List message posted by: Gary Gerber <44gn@kconline.com>
Larry...
Understand about the Bowden cable. Next question what kind of handle do I use?
I
would need the bowden cable clamp also?
My hyd action for the tail wheel does not retract slowly it comes up now. If yours
is slowly and gently how do I fix that? It does lock up positively no problem
there.
Next question... What is the hook up at the tail wheel so you can install the cable
to make it swivel? Is there a special fitting?
Enough for today. Having an extended Christmas dinner to day. Take Care Gary
LRE2@aol.com wrote:
> --> FEWMustang-List message posted by: LRE2@aol.com
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> Gary,
> I have forwarded your message to the FEW builders page, because I'd
> like to have other builders see that this can be a useful forum. So far, it
has
> not caught on, but the information that several of us exchange could be useful
> to others, and there are others out there that have useful information for
> us. It is really a very easy system to use.
> As to your questions:
> A 1/16 cable is more than adequate to trip the Lock lever on the
> tailwheel. I used a 1/16 Bowden cable just because it is neat and tidy.
> The tailwheel comes down and locks in a flash and with a bang,
> without any hydraulic action. However, it retracts slowly and gently. Your
> problem will be getting it to come up sufficiently to positively engage the Lock
> lever. I found it necessary to lengthen the arm of the Elastomeric shock
> absorber by ~5/8" with a phenolic wedge inorder to get reliable engagement.
LRE
>
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| Subject: | Re: FEWMustang-List Digest: 3 Msgs - 12/27/03 |
--> FEWMustang-List message posted by: Gary Gerber <44gn@kconline.com>
Ken... In the Mustang Express that Dennis Turner put out. I can fax it to you.
Maybe you have it. Gary
PolymerDesign@aol.com wrote:
> --> FEWMustang-List message posted by: PolymerDesign@aol.com
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> Has anyone come up with a good solution to operate the tailwheel doors? Ken
>
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--> FEWMustang-List message posted by: Melvinke@aol.com
Not a thing! I will email him today. K.
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| Subject: | Re: FEWMustang-List Digest: 3 Msgs - 12/27/03 |
--> FEWMustang-List message posted by: PolymerDesign@aol.com
Plse fax it to me but call first so i can coordinate things. Were there any
pixs?
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| Subject: | Re: Fwd: tail wheel |
--> FEWMustang-List message posted by: PolymerDesign@aol.com
I've got Huey's set up on the swivel which I'll bring with me when I come up
next month. Ken
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| Subject: | Re: FEWMustang-List Digest: 3 Msgs - 12/27/03 |
--> FEWMustang-List message posted by: LRE2@aol.com
Ken G
The retractable tailwheel doors were a challenge, but they are working
well for me now. I tried the aluminum hoop mechanism described in the Mustang
Express article. It worked sometimes, but not consistently, due, I think, to
the sort of "catch as catch can" geometry of the set up.
Jim sent out a drawing of a mechanism using "bungie cords" As drawn, it
didn't work, but with a few modifications, it does work, and that is what I am
using, and I am pleased with the consistency of the mechanism..
A major problem that I found was finding the "rat trap" springs to fit
on the piano hinges of the doors, to securely close them. I wound up making a
"spring winder" tool and using 0.0625 music wire to make the springs. Sounds
hard, but is pretty easy, once you figure it out. I can help you with this if
you'd like. LRE
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| Subject: | Re: Fwd: tail wheel |
--> FEWMustang-List message posted by: LRE2@aol.com
Gary,
Yes, I used bowden clamps, but appropriately sized and placed Adel
clamps would work as well.
I'm not sure how to explain the retraction speed of your tailwheel, but
I expect that it has to do with the fact that you don't have the whole system
online yet, and are pumping just the small cylinder, so your hydraulic pump
is way more powerful that you need to actuate the cylinder. Once you have
everything online, the pump will take longer to build pressure and the activating
speed will be slower.
I Nikopressed the tailwheel end of the Bowden cable to an eye bolt
with a long threaded shank to allow for adjustment. The cockpit end of the cable
(the Handle as you describe) attaches to the Main gear actuating lever, so
that whenever you move the gear handle to the "lower" position, the tailwheel
lock lever is released. You don't need any other "handle." I have drawings for
this if you need them. LRE
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| Subject: | Re: FEWMustang-List Digest: 3 Msgs - 12/27/03 |
--> FEWMustang-List message posted by: PolymerDesign@aol.com
Thanks for the info. Do you have drawings or pixs showing what you did? I
have nothing to visualize the system in my paperwork. I'm close to wing mate
and I'd like to knock out the tailwheel system this winter. Ken
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