evmeg(at)snowcrest.net
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 Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 5:55 pm Post subject: How NOT to turn a fuselage over |
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Just a quick warning for you guys. My neighbors at the airport have been
building a T-18 and the other day they came in the morning to do some
riveting to find that the sawhorses had collapsed under the fuselage. It
caused substantial damage and will set the project back many hours. Scary
thing for me is that I have a much heavier/larger RV-10 fuselage on the same
crappy Home Depot plastic sawhorses......I have even been getting in it to
do hours of work! They think that the heat in our area for the last few
weeks made them fail. It has been over 100F consistently, even up to 117 F.
My focus now is to get the landing gear trunions in so I can mount my
temporary landing gear (more on those in a sec.) I just got the sound
proofing in under the forward floors, sealed the firewall with proseal and
popped down the floors. Now all that is left is to bolt in those trunions.
The temporary landing gear is some pipe I had cut with a couple of bolts
welded on to act as axels...throw in a couple of wheelbarrow tires and you
got the idea. It will set the fuselage about 2 feet off the floor and I will
be able to set the whole works down on the wheels and the side steps. Also
by simply lifting up the tailcone I will be able to move it about the
hanger, wheel barrow style. These guys cost about $100 dollars and when I am
done I will send them on to some other deserving RV 10 builder for their
use. Now I need to get over to the hanger and stick my small refrigerator
under the fuse to act as a back-up to those saw horses.
Cheers..
Evan Johnson
www.evansaviationproducts.com
(530)247-0375
(530)351-1776 cell
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