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demeo(at)sonic.net
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Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 11:13 pm Post subject: Landing Light Kit Assembly Grief

I experienced a lot of grief trying to hold together the %$(at)#*! landing 

light assembly while getting it fastened to the channel in the left 

wing.  Every time I tried to get the bolts through the face plate and 

the backing plate and get the bushings and springs on and then put the 

darn thing up to the channel the assembly would lean and mush and the 

springs would fall off the bolts and boing away and the face plate 

would loosen and fall off and my blood pressure would rise rapidly and 

family would look at me in shock after a few choice words...So...I have 

learned a trick that works well for mounting the lights onto the 

channel.  After drilling all holes and making the notch in the backing 

plates per the plans, proceed as follows:  First, stand all four bolts 

upside down on a work bench.  Second, feed the face plate over the 

bolts.  Third, slide the bushings (11 mm each) onto the bolts.  Fourth, 

place light in the circle of face plate with filament of bulb vertical 

(a hard landing will break the filament if horizontal). Fifth, place 

the backing plate over the bolts and over the back of the light.  Then, 

go to Ace Hardware and purchase 8 pin clips (Servalite PC9...4 per 

light assembly, one for each bolt).  Sixth, slide pin clips onto bolts 

at backing plate to hold the light assembly firm.  Seventh, place 

springs over bolts and carefully raise the light assembly to the 

channel inside the wing and tighten the screws as desired/needed to 

focus the lights.  The pin clips will save a lot of agony over trying 

to get the loose assembly up to the channel for final assembly.  The 

pin clips are metal and will handle the heat near the lamp.  After a 

dozen tries without pin clips, my first attempt with pin clips was 

successful and complete in less than 5 minutes!



Brad DeMeo

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dredmoody(at)cox.net
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Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 7:41 am Post subject: Landing Light Kit Assembly Grief

Alternative method:



Go to dental school then after graduation, do root canals on upper second molars routinely for let's say..... 30 years or so. Makes assembling the landing lights look like shooting fish in a barrel (Does anyone actually shoot fish inside barrels? Why?

What does PETA have to say about that practice? Does anyone care?)



Sorry...... I had the right to remain silent......... but sadly, I lacked the discretion,



Dred



Please Do Not Archive

Please take good care of those Second Molars



---- Brad DeMeo <demeo(at)sonic.net> wrote:

 

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		   I experienced a lot of grief trying to hold together the %$(at)#*! landing 

 light assembly while getting it fastened to the channel in the left 

 wing........

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pacificpainting(at)comcas
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Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 1:48 pm Post subject: Landing Light Kit Assembly Grief

I heard that PETA stands for People Eating Tasty Animals. Or something like 

that.

And with that I say, do not archive.



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