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 Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 2:47 pm Post subject: 801 big tires |
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Bill, how did you attach your front float struts to the fuselage? I have drawings from CAW showing basically a quarter-inch-thick tang sandwiched between the firewall and lower motor mount, sharing the motor mount bolt. This tang is bent and bolted to the strut. It seems "all wrong" to me--multiplying the shear stress on the motor mount bolt not to mention adding much to the tension stress. If you did it that way, how's it working out?
John
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Keystone Engineering LLC <keystone(at)gci.net (keystone(at)gci.net)> wrote:
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I have 8.50x6 on the mains. I looked into having an 8.50 nose fork bent but
it was a couple of grand more than I though I wanted to spend. If you
really go into places that need that big of tires I suspect you will tear up
the plane.
This spring I was in and out of a 350' strip where the plane was sinking in
about 1". I would not go in with two but with one it worked.
I too would like to see pics!
Bill Wilcox
Valdez, Alaska
N801BW
460 hrs
On floats!
Does anyone know what type of modifications need to be done to a CH-801 to
accomidate 26 - 30 inch Tundra tires and what tire size/mods need to be don
e to the front gear nose fork if a larger tire was placed there as well?-
I'm just curious to find out what-expenses might be incurred outsi=========
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