Original Posted By: shad bell
Pietenpol-List: Brodhead oil change?
Re: Pietenpol-List: Brodhead oil change?
Original Posted By: Ryan Mueller
------Original Message------Subject: Not Piet but Piet builder relatedSent: Jul 18, 2009 1:05 PMI started building the brakes for my Affordaplane and sent pics to my dad and hedecided that I needed to build a set for him as well. His Rans came with gocart drum brakes, very similar to what I've seen on many Piets. On the Rans,they sucked at best. Even after replacing the shoes and drums they would lockup or squeal wickedly. I replaced them last night with Avid BB7 disk brakesfrom a mountain bike. They are cable activated. I had to machine some ratherlarge brake hubs to space the rotor out far enough to let the caliper clearthe tires. I replaced the old backing plate with an .090 4130 caliper bracket.We flew them last night and they were great. They held good during normalpreflight run up. They were nice and smooth and progressive while turning andtaxiing. We could lock the tires up in the grass. I did a couple of my besttouch and goes at Ennis. While on the hard runway I clamped them down prettyhard at 30mph and they had lots of stopping power. The whole system with hubs, rotors, calipers, and cables weighed less than 4lbs.I already have motorcycle disk brakes for the Piet, but wonder if I shouldn'tget another set of Avid brakes to reduce weight.Anyways, just an option for those that haven't bought brakes yet.Jeremy in DallasSent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile________________________________________________________________________________Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 13:37:55 -0500Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Brodhead oil change?
------Original Message------Subject: Not Piet but Piet builder relatedSent: Jul 18, 2009 1:05 PMI started building the brakes for my Affordaplane and sent pics to my dad and hedecided that I needed to build a set for him as well. His Rans came with gocart drum brakes, very similar to what I've seen on many Piets. On the Rans,they sucked at best. Even after replacing the shoes and drums they would lockup or squeal wickedly. I replaced them last night with Avid BB7 disk brakesfrom a mountain bike. They are cable activated. I had to machine some ratherlarge brake hubs to space the rotor out far enough to let the caliper clearthe tires. I replaced the old backing plate with an .090 4130 caliper bracket.We flew them last night and they were great. They held good during normalpreflight run up. They were nice and smooth and progressive while turning andtaxiing. We could lock the tires up in the grass. I did a couple of my besttouch and goes at Ennis. While on the hard runway I clamped them down prettyhard at 30mph and they had lots of stopping power. The whole system with hubs, rotors, calipers, and cables weighed less than 4lbs.I already have motorcycle disk brakes for the Piet, but wonder if I shouldn'tget another set of Avid brakes to reduce weight.Anyways, just an option for those that haven't bought brakes yet.Jeremy in DallasSent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile________________________________________________________________________________Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 13:37:55 -0500Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Brodhead oil change?
RE: Pietenpol-List: NX92GB, no longer AOG
Original Posted By: owner-pietenpol-list-server(at)matronics.com
Good going, Shad.You've earned a good trip to Brodhead this year. I'll see you there.Jack-----Original Message-----
Good going, Shad.You've earned a good trip to Brodhead this year. I'll see you there.Jack-----Original Message-----
RE: Pietenpol-List: Fw: Not Piet but Piet builder related
Original Posted By: "Bill Church"
Re: Pietenpol-List: Fw: Not Piet but Piet builder related
Original Posted By: Bill Church
Dad's Rans that we tried the brakes on last night is 1200lbs gross. We were probably100lbs under that with 1/3 tanks of fuel and had more than enough stoppingpower. I tried them on a mountain bike and they could easily throw me overthe bars at 180lbs. On a bike mostly the front brake does most of the work.On a plane they share duty. I have to admit, I was shaking in my boots whenwe taxied out last night and felt a sigh of relief when the actually worked.Jeremy------Original Message------
Dad's Rans that we tried the brakes on last night is 1200lbs gross. We were probably100lbs under that with 1/3 tanks of fuel and had more than enough stoppingpower. I tried them on a mountain bike and they could easily throw me overthe bars at 180lbs. On a bike mostly the front brake does most of the work.On a plane they share duty. I have to admit, I was shaking in my boots whenwe taxied out last night and felt a sigh of relief when the actually worked.Jeremy------Original Message------
RE: Pietenpol-List: Fw: Not Piet but Piet builder related
Original Posted By: Lawrence Williams
Re: Pietenpol-List: Hie away to Brodhead
Original Posted By: Andrew M Eldredge
Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Hie away to Brodhead
Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Hie away to Brodhead
RE: Pietenpol-List: Fw: Not Piet but Piet builder related
Original Posted By: "Bill Church"