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1. 09:43 AM - test (Kip and Beth Gardner)
2. 09:47 AM - Re: test (BARNSTMR@aol.com)
3. 02:10 PM - Re: Re: 5.00X5 Cleveland wheels (Christian Bobka)
4. 03:38 PM - Bunji Struts (Rcaprd@aol.com)
5. 06:27 PM - Fuel Gauge, Houston... we have a problem (Andimaxd@aol.com)
6. 07:27 PM - Re: Fuel Gauge, Houston... we have a problem (James Dallas)
7. 08:10 PM - Re: Fuel Gauge, Houston... we have a problem (walt evans)
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--> Pietenpol-List message posted by: Kip and Beth Gardner <kipandbeth@earthlink.net>
Group,
I have not recieved any mail from the list in over 24 hrs. Just checking
DO NOT ARCHIVE
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North Canton, OH
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Come to think of it, me neither. Maybe everyone is out flying... or
building.
Terry B,
grounded under the Crawford P-49, 30 mi. radius this beautiful weekend.
DO NOT ARCHIVE
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Subject: | Re: 5.00X5 Cleveland wheels |
--> Pietenpol-List message posted by: "Christian Bobka" <bobka@compuserve.com>
See if there are bigger tires that fit on the 5 x 5 wheels. It is common to
8 x 6 tires on 6x6 wheels.
Call Desser Tires or look at their website.
Chris Bobka
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From: <Woodflier@aol.com>
Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: 5.00X5 Cleveland wheels
>
> --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: Woodflier@aol.com
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> I put 5.00 X 5 wheels and brakes on my Piet with split axle gear, and,
though
> I haven't flown it, they look to be in proportion to the airplane. If a
Piet
> is too big for 5.00 X 5s, then I can't imagine what aircraft would be
small
> enough. I suspect they may bog down in soft ground a bit easier than the
6.00 X
> 6s but probably not by much.
>
> Matt Paxton
>
>
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--> Pietenpol-List message posted by: Rcaprd@aol.com
Since there's not much going on, on the list, I thought I'd send along the
text that I wrote for Max Davis, on how I tie my bunji strut loops. It's a long
post, so be warned !!
I finally got done with re-tieing, and installing my bunji struts back on
the plane. Installing the bunji's on the struts, is one of the most
difficult 2 man chores that I do alone, as regular maintenance. Last year, I pulled
a
tendon in my right elbow, this time all I did was pinch my finger (it only
bled a little bit), and now only have achy forearms from pulling and fixing the
loops over the struts. This is the last time I'm going to re-tie the
bunji's...I'm building spring struts !!!
It's difficult to put it in text, how I tie the loops, so I've taken a
lot of digital pictures, and will send them direct to anyone that contacts me
direct.
The instructions I'm giving here, is for the PLANS DIMENSIONS of the
bunji strut suspension. It took me 2 or 3 tries my first time, before I was
satisfied with how the loop turned out.
Start out using two wraps of medical tape where you plan on cutting the
bunji chord with a sharp knife, or the bunji chord will unravel before your
eyes. Cut up a piece of scrap to see how this stuff is made. It obviously is
stretched quite a bit, before the cloth weave is applied to the many small
strands of rubber bands. The 5/8" bunji chord from AS&S is part #06-12600. If
it's all in one length, you can use the medical tape centered where you wish to
cut, then just cut right down through the medical tape, leaving half of the
medical tape on each piece. I use a waxed chord from a leather company called
'The Leather Factory'. The wax chord from them has a part # 1220-01. Roll out
16 feet of the wax chord, and double it up. If you pull it through your
fingers, it will kind of stick together as a single chord. Use the doubled up
waxed chord, as a single chord. An airport buddy of mine showed me how to tie
the
loops, but I've learned most of this stuff by trial and error, and keeping
records of each process, and a sample of how the knots are tied. Measure back
from the tip of the cut bunji chord to 7 3/4", and make a mark with a black
pen. This is where you loop the tip of the bunji back to, to make a loop. Use
a
zip tie, cinched down tight, to hold the loop, while you tie the loop with
the waxed chord.
I started out using cut bunji length of 34". They loosened up, so I took
them apart and when I cut off the waxed chord of the tied loops, they had
stretched to 36" cut length !! I shortened them that time to 33", but they got
loose again. On 7/19/03 I re-tied them all to 31". They have loosened up
again, so now I've cut them all to 29" cut length. Tied length on all four is
now is 21 3/8" to 21 1/2". That's from the tip to tip of the end of the loops.
Here's the hard part to describe...tying the knots. The tied up portion
that the waxed chord covers, is 1" to 1 1/8". Measure up from the cut end of
the bunji 1" to 1/18" and make another mark. This is where you start to tie
your knots. Start out by taking one end of the waxed chord, up under the zip
tie, to the tip of the loop of the bunji and tape it there. Bring the length
of waxed chord down past the cut end of the bunji about 3" past where you made
your first mark, and loop it back up almost to the zip tie. Make the first
knot in the waxed chord closest to the bunji loop. Make a loose loop around
your first two fingers, and twist it counterclockwise one turn, and loop it back
over top of the loop of the bunji. Take up the slack with the long end of the
waxed chord, and line up the first knot closest to the bunji loop. You can't
make this one very tight, because there is nothing to tighten it up to. Work
each knot away from the loop of the bunji. The second knot, third, and so
on, will be able to tighten it up, with a leather protection for your hand, or
the waxed chord will cut the skin...gotta get it really tight !! For each
knot, you make a loop around the first two fingers of your left hand, and twist
it one turn counterclockwise, and loop it back over the loop of the bunji.
You have to line up the knots of the waxed chord, along the seam where the bunji
chord loops back to the cut end of the bunji chord. Your initial waxed chord
will be under the knots you are tying. Maybe 20 or 30 knots later (I haven't
counted them), you will have reached the cut end of the bunji, making the
tied portion about 1" to 1 1/8" long. Now you take what's left of the waxed
chord (about 3"), and thread it through the loop that you taped down past the cut
end of the bunji. With the first end of the waxed chord that you inserted up
under the zip tie, pull the other end up under the set of tied knots, bring
the ends together with a couple of square knots. This keeps the assembly of
knots tied together. You may be able to get away with a bunji chord cut length
of 30", because new chord isn't stretched out yet.
As far as getting it streached around the struts...do it when there are
no women or children around !! Tape the jaws of the vise to secure the strut,
and be careful not to over tighten the vise to the point where it crimps the
metal, but plenty tight enough to hold it secure. This is a two man job...one
to keep stretch on the chord, the other to keep working the slack around the
loops with a huge 24" pair of channel locks - with tape on the jaws so it
doesn't damage the bunji cloth. I used a small rope through the loop, and back
up
around the other end of the bunji strut, to keep stretching the bunji, and
keep it from stretching back. Good Luck, and HAVE AT IT !! If you find an
easy way to do it...Please let me know. I hope you can understand all this.
Fire away with any questions !!
Chuck Gantzer
NX770CG
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Subject: | Fuel Gauge, Houston... we have a problem |
Group:
I hope you all are experiencing the same weather that Jim Markle and myself
are in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area of Texas, and are outside flying.
Rochester gauges of Dallas made a sample of the inverted center section fuel
gauge for me and it looks, and will work, great! That was the good news. The
bad news is that they said it would not pass tooling, and it would not pass
quality...I've said more than my share of curse words this week. At this
point, they will not make them for me, stating, that they cannot mass produce this
item and get the quality that they demand at the same time. I suggested that
maybe they could sell them to me as a novelty or paper weight, to no avail.
I showed it to Jim Markle and he also said it looks great. I have some
pictures and even a clip I could send you, if you want to be as disgusted as we
are. I truly think that in the event of an accident, this is an item that can
keep an airplane from burning up, a person from getting burned or in the
extreme, save someone's life.
I am now looking at the possibility of producing the gauge, as well as
marketing it, myself, to the homebuilding community.
I am sorry for getting everyone excited about this, I did not understand,
when the computer says it can't be done, the production engineers agree.
Sorry guys, I'll keep you posted.
Max Davis
Arlington, TX.
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Subject: | Re: Fuel Gauge, Houston... we have a problem |
Seal-Send-Time: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 21:11:54 -0600
Max,
I would love to see some pictures of it.
Jim Dallas
----- Original Message -----
From: Andimaxd@aol.com
To: pietenpol-list@matronics.com
Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 8:24 PM
Subject: Pietenpol-List: Fuel Gauge, Houston... we have a problem
Group:
I hope you all are experiencing the same weather that Jim Markle and myself are
in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area of Texas, and are outside flying.
Rochester gauges of Dallas made a sample of the inverted center section fuel
gauge for me and it looks, and will work, great! That was the good news. The
bad news is that they said it would not pass tooling, and it would not pass quality...I've
said more than my share of curse words this week. At this point,
they will not make them for me, stating, that they cannot mass produce this
item and get the quality that they demand at the same time. I suggested that
maybe they could sell them to me as a novelty or paper weight, to no avail.
I showed it to Jim Markle and he also said it looks great. I have some pictures
and even a clip I could send you, if you want to be as disgusted as we are.
I truly think that in the event of an accident, this is an item that can keep
an airplane from burning up, a person from getting burned or in the extreme,
save someone's life.
I am now looking at the possibility of producing the gauge, as well as marketing
it, myself, to the homebuilding community.
I am sorry for getting everyone excited about this, I did not understand, when
the computer says it can't be done, the production engineers agree.
Sorry guys, I'll keep you posted.
Max Davis
Arlington, TX.
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Subject: | Re: Fuel Gauge, Houston... we have a problem |
Max,
Did they know it was for an airplane? Maybe thats where they got cold feet.
Something for a plane sends up red liability flags.
walt evans
NX140DL
----- Original Message -----
From: Andimaxd@aol.com
To: pietenpol-list@matronics.com
Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 9:24 PM
Subject: Pietenpol-List: Fuel Gauge, Houston... we have a problem
Group:
I hope you all are experiencing the same weather that Jim Markle and myself are
in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area of Texas, and are outside flying.
Rochester gauges of Dallas made a sample of the inverted center section fuel
gauge for me and it looks, and will work, great! That was the good news. The
bad news is that they said it would not pass tooling, and it would not pass quality...I've
said more than my share of curse words this week. At this point,
they will not make them for me, stating, that they cannot mass produce this
item and get the quality that they demand at the same time. I suggested that
maybe they could sell them to me as a novelty or paper weight, to no avail.
I showed it to Jim Markle and he also said it looks great. I have some pictures
and even a clip I could send you, if you want to be as disgusted as we are.
I truly think that in the event of an accident, this is an item that can keep
an airplane from burning up, a person from getting burned or in the extreme,
save someone's life.
I am now looking at the possibility of producing the gauge, as well as marketing
it, myself, to the homebuilding community.
I am sorry for getting everyone excited about this, I did not understand, when
the computer says it can't be done, the production engineers agree.
Sorry guys, I'll keep you posted.
Max Davis
Arlington, TX.
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