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Alan Carter
Joined: 02 Jul 2012
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Location: Kent, England.
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 Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 1:32 pm Post subject: £5 and 50 minutes Control Lock |
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Hello All.
This may be of interest to you if your like me with only a fiver and 50 minutes to spare.
Its a control lock, effective and very simple to make in 50 minutes.
Ingredients.
Just a length of 5/8” Dowel , Two copper “T” pieces, the ones with the solder in are slightly longer, you could use one of each as i have.
Couple of pop rivets , bit of Velcro and Yellow tape, touch of Araldite, and a lick of paint,
( pop in the oven for 50 minutes)
I like mine to push against the seat absolutely no movement, for storage it is clipped up on the cockpit ceiling , but you could shorten it with a cap just beyond the Velcro straps,
I could not remember if the controls are locked in Neutral or Fully down, so i stuck two Velcro straps on, take you choice what's best to uses.
Weight 200 grams.
Alan
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goff
Joined: 18 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 6:06 am Post subject: Re: £5 and 50 minutes Control Lock |
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Alan,
Could you post a picture of it in use, please?
Goff
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Alan Carter
Joined: 02 Jul 2012
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Location: Kent, England.
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| Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 10:11 am Post subject: Re: £5 and 50 minutes Control Lock |
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Hi Goff.
It looks like a tow bar , if it was stronger it could do both but you would need
a new nose wheel axel.
However the yellow bars slide between and into each rudder pedal so locking them together.
The other end of the long bar pushes up against the seat,( it does not have butt against the seat , you could shorten it if you wanted) then the valkro strap is place around the stick so locking the stabalator either in neutral or fully down, and keeping the ailerons neutral.
Very useful, and very simple and cheap to make, so i posted it on the forum.
Will post a photo next time i get up the field.
Alan
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