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panamared5(at)brier.net
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 Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 5:04 am Post subject: Installing Gear Legs |
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Anyway, I’m finishing up the cockpit wiring and
trying to figure out a good way to raise the
fuselage (-8A) to put her on the gear. Anyone
have words about what worked – and what didn’t?
I’m contemplating the use of the engine hoist
with a cable wrapped around the roll bar, but
that seems too rough and perhaps unstable.
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I not sure what your situation is and I built an
RV6 so my comments may not work.
The fuselage is very easy for one person to lift
the front or back end. I assume you do not have
the wings on. If not, build two sawhorses taller
than the gear leg and put the fuselage on the
sawhorses. Make sure you pad the saw horses and place them under a bulkheads.
I have a different aircraft fuselage in my hanger
right now in that very same condition.
Bob
RV6 "Wicked Witch of the West"
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johnciolino(at)comcast.ne
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| Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 11:43 am Post subject: Installing Gear Legs |
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I didn't have the engine mounted so I bolted angle iron to the upper and
lower engine mounts using 2x4 wood stand-offs to clear the firewall flange.
I then bolted a piece of angle across the two verticals (forming an H) and
mounted an eye bolt in the center. Hooked up an engine hoist and was not
only able to lift the fuselage but rotate it. The tail was not mounted and
I let the aft end of the fuselage it rotate on a padded sawhouse. I then
lowered it onto sawhorses to mount the gear.
John Ciolino
RV-8
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