---------------------------------------------------------- Pietenpol-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Thu 05/12/16: 3 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 06:05 AM - West Coast Piet Gathering (AircamperN11MS) 2. 09:36 PM - Re: West Coast Piet Gathering (taildrags) 3. 09:53 PM - Re: rudder cables and tape and now trim (taildrags) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 06:05:52 AM PST US Subject: Pietenpol-List: West Coast Piet Gathering From: "AircamperN11MS" Hi All, Just 4 more weekends till the West Coast Piet Gathering. I sure hope that those who can come out for the event. I'm looking forward to seeing the Piets and Pietpeople again. Oscar, I sure hope that you can make it this year. Cheers, -------- Scott Liefeld Flying N11MS since March 1972 Steel Tube C-85-12 Wire Wheels Brodhead in 1996 Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=456148#456148 ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 09:36:53 PM PST US Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: West Coast Piet Gathering From: "taildrags" Scott, you know how much I would love to join up with Gary Boothe and Fritz Watson in the Sacramento area and fly down to Frazier Lake with them as a flight of three! We have talked about it. I will tell you right now that I put my wife on a plane to TX at 5 this morning. Her mother was assaulted yesterday in the Walmart parking lot down in our hometown of Laredo, TX by a purse-snatcher. When my 86-year-old mother in law wouldn't let go of the purse, she got pushed to the pavement and dragged by the assailant but by then several onlookers had headed over to assist and the assailant (a female, with a male accomplice in an idling vehicle) split the scene. My mother in law got a very nasty gash to the back of her head, hematoma on her head and hip where she hit the pavement, in and out of consciousness, all of that. Of course no open beds at the hospital so she spent the next 24+ hours in a cubicle in the ER where one cannot get any rest, her doctor was out of town on vacation so nobody wanted to order anything for her without knowing what meds she was on, etc. etc.... and to top it off she can't stand confined spaces so the most important test they wanted to run on her (MRI), she refused. We were concerned about a concussion and bleeding on the brain. All of which is to say that my wife is down in TX for the duration, caring for her mother, and we don't know what level of care she will require. She has no one besides my wife to care for her and she refuses to come up to Oregon because she has lived in her house for 60+ years and plans to die there. So I just don't know what, when, where, or how right now. She seems to be doing a little better today and is now in a private room with some pain meds for her hip, but who knows. My guess is that I'm not going to be able to leave the house, dogs, garden, and all this stuff if my wife is still away when the fly-in happens. -------- Oscar Zuniga Medford, OR Air Camper NX41CC "Scout" A75 power Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=456173#456173 ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 09:53:46 PM PST US Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: rudder cables and tape and now trim From: "taildrags" Steve; it is not immediately apparent from the photo, but imagine this. One common way of trimming the elevator is to apply 'bias' to one or both of the elevator walking beam arms by using springs. Apply more tension to the spring on the upper arm and the tail goes down. Apply more tension to the spring on the lower arm and the tail goes up. I decided to just apply variable tension to the upper arm because the time when I most notice having to hold pressure on the stick is when I fly the airplane solo right after filling the nose tank. That's the way I do most of my flying, so I have to apply gentle back-stick till the fuel burns off. If I just go out for a spin after topping the tank, I have to hold back-stick most or all of the flight so I decided to apply 'bias' to the upper arm of the walking beam to take care of that. Neither the pulley nor the doubled bungee were really necessary, but I needed more bias than just a single bungee could produce so I doubled it back and used a pulley in the middle to give me a point of connection by which to adjust the trim. You can see the rest of it here: http://www.flysquirrel.net/piets/trim.html I reach down and grab the ring, drop the knot on the string out of its notch, and either ease the string back to release tension on the bungee (lower the nose) or pull it out to the next notch to increase tension (raise the nose), and raise the knot into the notch to hold the setting. When I got the airplane, Corky had a bungee wrapped around the control stick and he would slide it up or down the stick to provide more or less aft pull on the stick. I didn't like that setup so I changed it. -------- Oscar Zuniga Medford, OR Air Camper NX41CC "Scout" A75 power Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=456174#456174 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other Matronics Email List Services ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post A New Message pietenpol-list@matronics.com UN/SUBSCRIBE http://www.matronics.com/subscription List FAQ http://www.matronics.com/FAQ/Pietenpol-List.htm Web Forum Interface To Lists http://forums.matronics.com Matronics List Wiki http://wiki.matronics.com Full Archive Search Engine http://www.matronics.com/search 7-Day List Browse http://www.matronics.com/browse/pietenpol-list Browse Digests http://www.matronics.com/digest/pietenpol-list Browse Other Lists http://www.matronics.com/browse Live Online Chat! http://www.matronics.com/chat Archive Downloading http://www.matronics.com/archives Photo Share http://www.matronics.com/photoshare Other Email Lists http://www.matronics.com/emaillists Contributions http://www.matronics.com/contribution ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These Email List Services are sponsored solely by Matronics and through the generous Contributions of its members.