Original Posted By: "K5YAC"
"Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing." ~ Harriet Braiker Clif > My opinion is: Good is what I shoot for and excellent is what I get when everything is going right. For me reaching for perfection only add to my frustration and sometimes results in excellent being downgraded to good.coxwelljon ________________________________________________________________________________Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: Great trip to Oklahoma
Original Posted By: "K5YAC"
Doug mine is the same except it has steel insert bars. no doubt some machine shopmade them up but the are very strong and very heavy.the only place I thoughtthere might be a weak point is that there are only 2 1/4" through bolts in thealuminum strut. for my peace of mind I did what was done on the same setupon a Rans S-12 I used to have. added a 4130 strap about 5/8" wide and I think.065 thick on top and bottom- picked up the 2 bolts and far enough along the struttube to install 3 3/16" stainless steel pop rivets. no doubt I'll be toldand was that this is over kill and not needed. but it gave me a warm fuzzy feelingsince the aluminum is probably a fair amount weaker than steel strut tubeand the plane is definitely quite a bit heavier than the Rans and I am prettysure as many as they sold they did some kind of analysis.if I hadn't gottenthe plane with the struts included I would have done some searching for someonethat had changed out their Piper struts for new sealed struts to eliminatethe repetitive inspections required. and cut the ends off them and fabricate onceI determined they were sound. there are hundreds of Shortwing Pipers out therewith new struts. I had contacted a friend that was in the Shortwing Pipergroup and there were several guys willing to sell their old struts but that wasa couple years ago and I have lost the names. RaymondRead this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... ___Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: Great trip to Oklahoma
Original Posted By: Mark Chunard
MarkNext time we'll markle us a prop and tail wheel assembly Jim will never noticethey're missing. He'll think the concrete block tied to th tail got caught onsomething and kept it from moving. It could be a good raid on his stuff------Original Message------
> My opinion is: Good is what I shoot for and excellent is what I get when everything is going right. For me reaching for perfection only add to my frustration and sometimes results in excellent being downgraded to good.coxwelljon ________________________________________________________________________________Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: Great trip to Oklahoma