---------------------------------------------------------- Zenith640-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Tue 09/22/09: 11 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 04:21 AM - Re: Dimensioning Question (pilot4pay) 2. 05:12 AM - Re: Anyone considering a Franklin to power their 640? (steveadams) 3. 07:15 AM - Re: Anyone considering a Franklin to power their 640? (FlyGuyTililDie) 4. 08:01 AM - Re: Anyone considering a Franklin to power their 640? (pilot4pay) 5. 08:37 AM - Re: new member, new project? (pilot4pay) 6. 08:44 AM - Re: new member, new project? (FlyGuyTililDie) 7. 09:10 AM - Re: new member, new project? (pilot4pay) 8. 09:12 AM - Re: new member, new project? (FlyGuyTililDie) 9. 10:23 AM - Re: Dimensioning Question (Scott Stewart) 10. 10:39 AM - Re: Re: Dimensioning Question (Carlos Sa) 11. 12:03 PM - Re: Dimensioning Question (Scott Stewart) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 04:21:52 AM PST US Subject: Zenith640-List: Re: Dimensioning Question From: "pilot4pay" I'm glad to hear that Zenair has decided to start tending to the ch-640 again. For a while there it seemed the 640 had become the unwanted step child of the Zenith line. Did you notice if the wing spar error that Chris Tremblay had found is now updated in the drawings? I had tried in an earlier post to coax folks to help keep track of updates on this list so everyone all had the latest information, as Zenair does not care to inform the 640 crowd of any changes. The only thing that's changed on the website since 2005 is the price of the kit. Hopefully they include an updated set of drawings with my fuselage kit. -------- Craig Smith CH640 builder SN: 0078 "Just think how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half of them are even stupider!" --George Carlin Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=264282#264282 ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 05:12:11 AM PST US Subject: Zenith640-List: Re: Anyone considering a Franklin to power their 640? From: "steveadams" At least at the time I finished my plane, the FWF of the 640 was the same as the 801 except for the engine mount. So theoretically, FWF packages for the 801 could easily be adapted to the 601 as far as getting it to fit. W+B issues, thrust line issues, and engine mount attachment points would seem to me to be the main things to check out prior to going that route. Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=264286#264286 ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 07:15:02 AM PST US Subject: Zenith640-List: Re: Anyone considering a Franklin to power their 640? From: "FlyGuyTililDie" I actually wrote Tim Ward yesterday asking this question. This was the reply: "Tim is no longer with Zenair. I will be handling all technical questions and any sales support is handled by Anita Mitchell." Anybody know what happened to Tim? and they also said... "The firewall is the same on a CH801 & a CH640. I have spoken with Travis @ Kobush Welding and he has built engine mounts for the Franklin engine on the CH640 & would be glad to build one for you." So this verifies the fact that the 801 and the 640 have the same FWF. I suppose the thrust line (as mentioned) would also have to be considered. Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=264300#264300 ________________________________ Message 4 _____________________________________ Time: 08:01:48 AM PST US Subject: Zenith640-List: Re: Anyone considering a Franklin to power their 640? From: "pilot4pay" If you dig around on the Zenith 801 builder resources section I think you can actually find the thrust line drawing for the 801 still. I could be wrong. -------- Craig Smith CH640 builder SN: 0078 "Just think how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half of them are even stupider!" --George Carlin Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=264314#264314 ________________________________ Message 5 _____________________________________ Time: 08:37:46 AM PST US Subject: Zenith640-List: Re: new member, new project? From: "pilot4pay" FlyGuy, those are really nice images, what program are you using? -------- Craig Smith CH640 builder SN: 0078 "Just think how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half of them are even stupider!" --George Carlin Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=264318#264318 ________________________________ Message 6 _____________________________________ Time: 08:44:36 AM PST US Subject: Zenith640-List: Re: new member, new project? From: "FlyGuyTililDie" Craig, Those are all PowerPoint autoshapes. Would you like me to create something for you? James s/n 086 Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=264321#264321 ________________________________ Message 7 _____________________________________ Time: 09:10:31 AM PST US Subject: Zenith640-List: Re: new member, new project? From: "pilot4pay" Never knew power point had the capability, but I looked down at the bottom status bar and there it is. What did you use as a basic drawing, or did you make the whole thing from scratch? -------- Craig Smith CH640 builder SN: 0078 "Just think how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half of them are even stupider!" --George Carlin Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=264329#264329 ________________________________ Message 8 _____________________________________ Time: 09:12:52 AM PST US Subject: Zenith640-List: Re: new member, new project? From: "FlyGuyTililDie" The entire thing was made from scratch. It started off as just a multi-sided polygon. Then just keep adding points and curves until you get the outline of an airplane. James s/n 086 Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=264330#264330 ________________________________ Message 9 _____________________________________ Time: 10:23:12 AM PST US Subject: Zenith640-List: Re: Dimensioning Question From: "Scott Stewart" All they did was transfer the hand-drawn plans to computer-drawn. The wing spar error is still in the plans. They also added a few typographical errors in the transfer. Luckily in a couple of places, I could compare a picture of the hand-drawn plans (e.g. P1010080.65.jpg in the Stage 2 fuselage directory) with my computer-drawn version and resolve the differences. But most of the time I had to calculate the correct numbers. I still plan on posting the corrections I have found so far, but I wanted to collect them into one document first. I'll start a new thread when I get this together. I wish we had a centralized web site (something like http://www.ch601.org/builder%20resources.htm) where we could post our collective knowledge about the CH640. Searching through this email list is not optimal for future builders. -------- Scott Stewart s/n: 0092 Building from plans Rudder and Stabilator complete. Wings at 65%. Fuselage at 40%. Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=264342#264342 ________________________________ Message 10 ____________________________________ Time: 10:39:25 AM PST US Subject: Re: Zenith640-List: Re: Dimensioning Question From: Carlos Sa Matronics has a Wiki you could use for this purpose... http://wiki.matronics.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Carlos CH601-HD,plans Montreal, Canada 2009/9/22 Scott Stewart > scott_stewart@agilent.com> > > ... > > I wish we had a centralized web site (something like > http://www.ch601.org/builder%20resources.htm) where we could post our > collective knowledge about the CH640. Searching through this email list is > not optimal for future builders. > > -------- > Scott Stewart > s/n: 0092 > Building from plans > Rudder and Stabilator complete. Wings at 65%. Fuselage at 40%. > > ________________________________ Message 11 ____________________________________ Time: 12:03:49 PM PST US Subject: Zenith640-List: Re: Dimensioning Question From: "Scott Stewart" That's great ! I didn't know about the Wiki feature. I have started the CH640 wiki at http://www.matronics.com/wiki/index.php/CH_640. I will fill in the errata page with the items I have collected so far. -------- Scott Stewart s/n: 0092 Building from plans Rudder and Stabilator complete. Wings at 65%. Fuselage at 40%. 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