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kf30hm(at)yahoo.com
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Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 5:19 am Post subject: Wing stands?

Can anyone out there in Kitfox world give me some information on building wing stands to support the wings while covering and painting the wings on a Kitfox.  My wings have permanently attached droop tips so that needs to be taken into account.  What have you used, what worked well, simple to build...  I am re-covering the wings on my model 3 and was hoping for a better way to handle the wings during this process.  Help!

Harold - N830HM - Kitfox 3 with 582 and tube gear - 760 hours.

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Tom Jones

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Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 6:07 am Post subject: Re: Wing stands?

 	  kf30hm(at)yahoo.com wrote: 	
		  Can anyone out there in Kitfox world give me some information on building wing stands to support the wings while covering and painting the wings on a Kitfox.ï¿½ My wings have permanently attached droop tips so that needs to be taken into account.ï¿½ What have you used, what worked well, simple to build...ï¿½ I am re-covering the wings on my model 3 and was hoping for a better way to handle the wings during this process.ï¿½ Help!

Harold - N830HM - Kitfox 3 with 582 and tube gear - 760 hours.

	




Harold, here's a link to an easy to build wing painting rotisserie.

http://www.sportflight.com/cgi-bin/uploader.pl?action=view&epoch=1009991609

For covering you can't find an easier or more useful support than the modified saw horses shown in the Polly Fiber manual.

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l.morris(at)tx.rr.com
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Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 8:35 am Post subject: Wing stands?

I have some plans out in my shop where someone use PCV pipe that slipped into the ends of the spars and the wing could be rotated around as use work on it. Let me know if you are interested and I'll dig then up.   Leon Morris/Classic 4/65%/Flower Mound,TX

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 Can anyone out there in Kitfox world give me some information on building wing stands to support the wings while covering and painting the wings on a Kitfox.Â  My wings have permanently attached droop tips so that needs to be taken into account.Â  What have you used, what worked well, simple to build...Â  I am re-covering the wings on my model 3 and was hoping for a better way to handle the wings during this process.Â  Help!

 Harold - N830HM - Kitfox 3 with 582 and tube gear - 760 hours.

 

 

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andynfultz(at)bellsouth.n
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Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 9:35 am Post subject: Wing stands?

Harold,



  I made a spreader bar that I could bolt onto a rotating engine stand and

the spars.  On the wingtip end I made a stand from  conduit that I could

stick in the wingtip light mounting hole.  Then I could ratate as necessary

and stop at nearly any angle.



Andy F.



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Lynn Matteson

Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 2778
Location: Grass Lake, Michigan

Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 11:36 am Post subject: Wing stands?

Same here...PVC pipe and fittings, allowing the wing to rotate. I  

went a step further and made a brake of sorts that will keep the wing  

at any position in the rotation.

Your situation, Harold, is one that made me fasten my tips on with  

machine screws and anchor nuts...removable.



Lynn

On May 13, 2008, at 12:33 PM, <l.morris(at)tx.rr.com> wrote:



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    I have some plans out in my shop where someone use PCV pipe that  

 slipped into the ends of the spars and the wing could be rotated  

 around as use work on it. Let me know if you are interested and  

 I'll dig then up.   Leon Morris/Classic 4/65%/Flower Mound,TX

 ---- Harold McConnell <kf30hm(at)yahoo.com> wrote:

> 

> <kf30hm(at)yahoo.com>

>

> Can anyone out there in Kitfox world give me some information on  

> building wing stands to support the wings while covering and  

> painting the wings on a Kitfox.  My wings have permanently  

> attached droop tips so that needs to be taken into account.  What  

> have you used, what worked well, simple to build...  I am re- 

> covering the wings on my model 3 and was hoping for a better way  

> to handle the wings during this process.  Help!

> Harold - N830HM - Kitfox 3 with 582 and tube gear - 760 hours.

> Be a better friend, newshound, and

> know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile.  Try it now.  http:// 

> mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ

>

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jlfernan

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Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 12:04 pm Post subject: Re: Wing stands?

Pictures please, if possible.

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