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                           Pietenpol-List Digest Archive
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                     Total Messages Posted Sun 01/04/04: 2
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Today's Message Index:
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     1.  PM - Don't need no stinkin shelf  (At7000ft@aol.com)
     2.  PM - Cabane Strut Length  (Rcaprd@aol.com)
 
 
 
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From: At7000ft@aol.com
Subject: Pietenpol-List: Don't need no stinkin shelf

I am building a long fuselage Piet with a corvair engine and therefore don't 
believe I need the shelf in the upper front of the fuselage. I plan on using a

full height firewall extending above the top longerons like Mike Cuy's in his 
video. Question is how to finish off the upper front of the fuselage. 

I am assuming I can just add triangular gussets to the inside top corners 
(like those shown on the plans at the bottom corners) and a horizontal cross 
brace (maybe 1" x 3/4") between the 2 (#1) front vertical struts just under the

top inside motor mount brackets. 

Anyone see any problems with this?

Thanks

Rick Holland

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From: Rcaprd@aol.com
Subject: Pietenpol-List: Cabane Strut Length

--> Pietenpol-List message posted by: Rcaprd@aol.com

In a message dated 12/31/03 5:36:52 PM Central Standard Time, 
wbeevans@verizon.net writes:

<< Jm,
 Mine are to plans.  Guess if I had to do it over again, would have made them 
longer.  Corky, yours are longer , aren't they.  How does that work out?
 Know lots of guys made them longer.  Can all respond?
 walt evans
 NX140DL
 I know, I myself couldn't get in there.
   ----- Original Message ----- 
   From: Jim Markle 
   To: pietenpol-list@matronics.com 
   Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 6:23 PM
   Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: climbing in (the real story)


   How do the cabane lengths compare the the plans?
    I hope your's are shorter....this doesn't look good.....   :-)
    jm >>

My cabane struts are 2" longer than plans.  I have yet to install the slanted 
struts, so I still have the 'X' cables on the right side of the front pit.  
Ya just wanna take a ride bad enough, and you'll get in.  At 6', 210 lbs, I can

get in, so I might not even go with the slanted struts.

Chuck Gantzer
NX770CG