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a58r(at)verizon.net
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Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 3:57 pm Post subject: skate boards

The hangar I share (or rather, the guy who rents the hangar allows me  

a small corner) now has a C170, a Piper Coupe, and my FireFly. It's a  

real job of heavy/hauling, back and forth  and lifting the tail, via  

boom-lift to either get it out or, worse, back in. Arprt won't allow  

painted stripes, and tape comes off too readily.



So, Cheap Bob, gets 6 2" bolt-on casters ($1 ea) and screws them, 3  

at a time in a triangle pattern to a couple pcs of 1/2" plywood  

scrap, abt 10"x15". A couple of 1x1 strips cross-wise keeps the  

wheels from moving off the skate boards. Now to raise the wheels abt  

6" to slide the boards underneath, I use a pc of 5-ply flooring scrap  

abt 3" wide by maybe 5' long. On one end I screwed a couple pcs of  

1x4x6" scrap at rt angles to the flat sides. Shove the Archimedes  

Tool under the stub axle, lift the long end, and up comes the wheel.  

I put a notch where the lever hits the axle stub, to keep vehicle  

from rolling back. Same fer other wheel. Since the tail wheel isn't  

full-swiveling, a used another scrap of 2x8x8,, drilled three holes  

for some furniture casters, the kind that go in drilled holes in  

tables, cabinets, etc. and drove in the castormounts...2" mts into 2"  

scrap. As an added aid, there are angular holes in a block on one end  

of each board to accept an old mop handle, for guiding the board  

under the wheel. The tail board has a deep slot to keep tail wheel  

straight and on the board.



Now I can move the FireFly with one hand, even a finger! Abt an  

hour's work...other guys have very spendy  wheel carts with hyd  

jacks, etc etc...maybe TSOd? Mine was MIL-TF-D41-C.

regards,

Bob N.    FireFly 070 Old Kolb

http://www.angelfire.com/rpg/ronoy/



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pj.ladd(at)btinternet.com
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Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 3:35 am Post subject: skate boards

Now I can move the FireFly with one hand, >.



Hi Bob,



visit any English gliding club and you will see thats how it is done. Try 

putting a dozen gliders into a Nissen hut which, in 1940 used to be the 

Sergeants mess and into which the glider will only fit sideways.  Add in the 

fact that it is Sunday night and most of the club have sloped off home 

leaving about 3 members to put the planes away. That is when you invent 

cunning devices like yours.

When you look at the finished stack with all the gliders wings overlapping 

you wonder how on earth you ever managed it.



The couple of times I have flown gliders in the States a glider would be 

waiting on the flight line for me and I just left it there after flying and 

someone else put it away. In the usual UK Club there is no paid help and you 

are expected to either arrive early enough to get the machines out of the 

hangar /shed or stay late enough to put them away.  As one of the 3 that 

were usually left at the end of the day I can tell you that there is enough 

ingenuity in the average gliding club to pay off the National Debt . I saw 

one gliding club which had designed and built the biggest `up and over` 

hangar door I have ever seen. High enough to push a Tiger Moth under and 

wide enough to accomodate most gliders wingspan the whole thing lifted in 

the air driven by a chain the motive power for which was a hand turned 

bicycle pedal sprocket. A child could do it.



Cheers



Pat



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Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 11:04 am Post subject: skate boards

Pat,

Hangar next to me has two Rv-?s with wings overlapped. One has a  

small ramp under one gear leg, which tilts the wing enough to clear  

the other guy's. Another has two V-Ezs stacked in a kinda  

"compromising" position.

regards,

Bob N.    FireFly 070 Old Kolb

http://www.angelfire.com/rpg/ronoy/



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