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1. 05:52 AM - Re: Grove Main Gear Support (Brady)
2. 08:48 AM - Re: Grove Main Gear Support (Gig Giacona)
3. 02:52 PM - Re: Re: Grove Main Gear Support (David Downey)
4. 04:49 PM - Re: Re: Grove Main Gear Support (LHusky@aol.com)
5. 07:03 PM - Rudder Light Custom Fairing (Dave VanLanen)
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| Subject: | Re: Grove Main Gear Support |
Has any body tried the Composite gear available from spruce?
I understand there is a 40 LBS savings to be had?
Brady
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Brady McCormick
Poulsbo, WA
www.magnificentmachine.com
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| Subject: | Re: Grove Main Gear Support |
While I'll admit the gun-drilled brake lines are nice. The lack of them is hardly
anything to be spooked about. Cessna has hung them out the back for years.
http://www.aircraftpartsandsalvage.com/popup_image.php?pID=12340&osCsid=eaccddfaa6563c93e7bceaa615fb3693
cndmovn(at)gmail.com wrote:
> The gun drilled brake lines is why I swapped my gear out for Grove. Having the
brake lines just "hang out back" spooked me. My Kitfox had gundrilled Grove
gear and it was fantastic. I hope my XL is the same.
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> Paul
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W.R. "Gig" Giacona
601XL Under Construction
See my progress at www.peoamerica.net/N601WR
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| Subject: | Re: Grove Main Gear Support |
discussed a while back. The gear that was available from them last year was
two piece - not sure how it could be used without a major re-engineering e
xercise.
David L. Downey Harleysville-(SE) PA, USA
--- On Mon, 7/7/08, Brady <brady@magnificentmachine.com> wrote:
From: Brady <brady@magnificentmachine.com>
Subject: Zenith601-List: Re: Grove Main Gear Support
<brady@magnificentmachine.com>
Has any body tried the Composite gear available from spruce?
I understand there is a 40 LBS savings to be had?
Brady
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Brady McCormick
Poulsbo, WA
www.magnificentmachine.com
Read this topic online here:
http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=191556#191556
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| Subject: | Re: Grove Main Gear Support |
I have it in my plane. You do want to make sure you get the gear before you
get to that stage. The gear attachment is different. I actually did not
get mine from ACS. It is from a CZAW plane that the owner wanted to tear apart
due to the accidents. It was almost a new plane and a very well built
plane. As far as the re-engineering goes, the gear channel was the exact same
as
mine with the gear attachments being different. There are 2 metal I beam
type fittings that go inside the gear channel from the bottom and 6 support
pieces inside the fuse. 4 of them go along the sides of the gear channel and
2
of them go on the inside of the center console and the seat belts attach to
them. Makes the seat belt attachment so much stronger. I feel better with
that. There is a huge weight savings with this gear. It was not hard at all
to
convert to use this gear. I got the gear, wheels, tires, brakes and wheel
pants for $150.00, so I could not pass it up. I am installing a Corvair on my
airframe and I just saved the extra weight from the Jabiru to the Corvair.
It is a 2 piece system, but it stands taller. The wheels and tires are much
lighter than the grove gear and I thought it might be hard to find parts, but
it is not. I have already ordered and received extra disk brakes rotors and
pads. I am excited about the gear and hope that it was worth the
conversion. I saw the gear on the original plane and it looked really good.
I don't
know what all comes with the ACS system, but I got everything I needed from
the donor plane. I was very impressed with the welded parts. They were top
notch parts.
Larry Husky
Madras, Oregon
In a message dated 7/7/2008 2:53:02 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
planecrazydld@yahoo.com writes:
discussed a while back. The gear that was available from them last year was
two piece - not sure how it could be used without a major re-engineering
exercise.
David L. Downey
Harleysville (SE) PA, USA
--- On Mon, 7/7/08, Brady <brady@magnificentmachine.com> wrote:
From: Brady <brady@magnificentmachine.com>
Subject: Zenith601-List: Re: Grove Main Gear Support
<brady@magnificentmachine.com>
Has any body tried the Composite gear available from spruce?
I understand there is a 40 LBS savings to be
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| Subject: | Rudder Light Custom Fairing |
Has anyone successfully fabricated a rudder light fairing for a 601XL? If
so, do you have any details that you could share? I think I may be going
with a tail light instead of the combo wing tip lights, and I would like to
use the new Kuntzleman round combo tail / strobe light, however the Zenith
fiberglass fairing appears to be a little too small for this light fixture.
Craig referred me to an example of a 701 with a nice aluminum fairing, but
it was quite large, and I would prefer to keep it as small as possible for
the faster 601XL.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Dave Van Lanen
601XL - finishing tail
From: "Craig Payne" <craig(at)craigandjean.com>
Subject: rudder light
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If you want to save power Kuntzleman has a new LED taillight:
http://www.kestrobes.com/heads.htm#NEW_ITEM!
<http://www.kestrobes.com/heads.htm>
Also the fiberglass taillight fairing from Zenith is not a great fit for
some taillights. Others have bent up their own from Al sheet.
-- Craig
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[mailto:owner-zenith-list-server(at)matronics.com] On Behalf Of Darrell Haas
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 1:07 PM
Subject: Zenith-List: rudder light
What are people using for the rear light on the rudder? I don't have
one yet and wonder if I should rivet the rudder before buying and
installing the light or go ahead and finish the rudder and add the
light later. What about the wires. Best bang for the buck? Zenith vs
??
Darrell
601 XL
reserved N723DD
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