---------------------------------------------------------- Pietenpol-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Wed 12/29/04: 9 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 10:48 AM - Rib Cap Strip Wood (Rcaprd@aol.com) 2. 11:08 AM - Re: Tailwheel (Rcaprd@aol.com) 3. 11:37 AM - Traveling West (Rcaprd@aol.com) 4. 01:17 PM - Re: Traveling West (Isablcorky@aol.com) 5. 01:44 PM - Address Change (wesley hartson) 6. 02:15 PM - Re: aircraft repairman - need info (Carl Vought) 7. 07:47 PM - Re: piet ribs - material specs (Clif Dawson) 8. 07:49 PM - Re: Traveling West (Rcaprd@aol.com) 9. 08:39 PM - Re: magneto plug wires (Wizzard187@aol.com) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 10:48:41 AM PST US From: Rcaprd@aol.com Subject: Pietenpol-List: Rib Cap Strip Wood In a message dated 12/26/04 6:36:37 PM Pacific Standard Time, tmbrant1@netzero.net writes: > Wondering what's the best place to purchase rib material. I used select Port Oxford Cedar, from the local lumber yard. Very nice wood to work with, and ideal for the job. If you're cutting your own cap strip on the table saw, be sure to cut the entire ship set of cap strip to the same setting on your rip fence, before removing your rip fence. In other words, cut ALL the 1/4" dimension, before moving your rip fence, and cut ALL the 1/2" dimension before moving your rip fence. This way, you won't need a planner. Cut a lot more than you need, then select from this batch, and remove any defects, and what's left is the entire ship set of cap strip. This way the entire ship set of cap strip will be the same dimensions, and it will not give you any problems in the jig. A few thousands difference in the 1/2" dimension of the cap strip, will show up in the rib jig, when you butt up the verticals to the cap strips, and the gussets don't lay perfectly flat. Chuck G. ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 11:08:10 AM PST US From: Rcaprd@aol.com Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Tailwheel In a message dated 12/26/04 1:46:44 PM Pacific Standard Time, TBYH@aol.com writes: > I want to build my own tailwheel -- don't want to use a tailskid. Would > like to avoid buying a commercial tailwheel assembly. What makes the best > tailwheel? Should I use Bernie's design for the strut and attachment but simply > attach a wheel at the end of the spring steel? What kind of wheel? I think I > read that one fellow used a hockey puck....Am open to suggestions... Fred, I used the plans tail skid for quite a while, even flew to Brodhead & Oshkosh '03 with the tail skid. Let me tell ya...the skid is a GRASS ONLY tail dragger. I almost lost it on hard surface, several times !! I'm sure there were several chuckles from the crowd watching me land at Oshkosh !! When I got back, I bought a heavy duty 3 1/2" caster wheel from Harbor Freight, and installed a bronze bushing in it, and installed it on the end of the tail skid, using the single arm method. The wheel didn't last long. The bronze bushing quickly wore out and the wheel wobbled a little, even though I kept it lubricated with grease. The tire came loose a little from the plastic wheel, also. I have since bought a 3 1/2" wheel from Wicks, with the ball bearings in it, for $16, and it works fairly well. My only squawk about that wheel is it should have been a 4" wheel, because in tall grass I have to use differential braking to make sharp turns. Since I built the axle to the 3 1/2" dimension wheel, I can't go to a 4" wheel, unless I cut off the wheel mount, and start over. Chuck G. ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 11:37:09 AM PST US From: Rcaprd@aol.com Subject: Pietenpol-List: Traveling West Dennis E. , Lynn K., or any one else in the Wichita area - I'm leaving tonight, to go back to Wichita from Wheeling. I am going to stop at Wicks, in St. Louis, on Thursday Afternoon, to haul another load of tubing for the Tailwind home, in my brand new '94 Toyota Celica. That should be a sight, with all the tubing sticking out the back from St. Louis to Wichita !! If anyone needs anything delivered from Wicks to Wichita, let me know what you need, and I'll pick it up for you. Let me know now, and I'll check my e-mail late this evening. Chuck G. ________________________________ Message 4 _____________________________________ Time: 01:17:58 PM PST US From: Isablcorky@aol.com Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Traveling West Are you planning to overnite at Sandy Point Beach? Do not archive ________________________________ Message 5 _____________________________________ Time: 01:44:03 PM PST US From: "wesley hartson" , , "JCPenney" , , "Grocery Newsletter" , "Famous Dave's" , , "daily-gibbleguts Confirmation \(from Lyris ListManager\)" , "Daily Joke" , , "Carol Wright Gifts" , "Amazin Humor" Subject: Pietenpol-List: Address Change Our e-mail address is changing. Replace the old (wes.shirl@webiowa.net) with our new address -- (wes.shirl@netzero.com). This is effective immediately. Thank You. S. Hartson ________________________________ Message 6 _____________________________________ Time: 02:15:46 PM PST US From: "Carl Vought" Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: aircraft repairman - need info --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: "Carl Vought" Talk to your Congressman...Isn't that part of what you're paying him for?..Carl ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bert Conoly" Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: aircraft repairman - need info > --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: "Bert Conoly" > > Merry Christmas (and I'm not afraid to say it that way) everybody. > > I need some information. As you all may have noticed, I've been concerned > that some Federal Aviation Regs regarding the application for Repairman > Certificate may be either fraudulently or at least inconsistently be being > applied. I have first-hand knowledge that > > > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ Message 7 _____________________________________ Time: 07:47:45 PM PST US From: Clif Dawson Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: piet ribs - material specs --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: Clif Dawson With this size material, and only 60" long you shouldn't have any trouble avoiding all knots and runout. Any size knot is going to affect the curve to some degree. The more grains the better, 12 to 16. 16 is only 4 in the 1/4" dimension and 8 if you orient them verticaly. Horizontal is better for bending. Clif > --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: "tmbrant1@netzero.net" > > > Thanks guys for your comments on the piet ribs... > > I can't find my guidelines on wood for the rib material - does it need to follow the same guidelines as the spar? IE: grains per inch, slope, knot size, etc... > > Tom B. > > ________________________________ Message 8 _____________________________________ Time: 07:49:23 PM PST US From: Rcaprd@aol.com Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Traveling West In a message dated 12/29/04 1:18:35 PM Pacific Standard Time, Isablcorky@aol.com writes: > Are you planning to overnite at Sandy Point Beach? > > Do not archive > Hummmm....never thought 'o that...might not get back to Wichita till monday... ________________________________ Message 9 _____________________________________ Time: 08:39:07 PM PST US From: Wizzard187@aol.com Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: magneto plug wires --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: Wizzard187@aol.com Pieters, I am having a hard time figuring out how to run the wires from my mags on a cont A65. The firing order is 1324 and looking from the pilots seat the rotation to the terminals should be clockwise as they drive off the crankshaft gear not the camshaft. I have about 4 cont engine overhaul manuals and when I look at the wiring diagrams and follow the wires to the cylinders it seems to be 1243. Anybody know what I am doing wrong? Ken Conrad in warm December ,no snow, Iowa