Original Posted By: "Jack"
If anyone's going to the Cactus fly-in at Casa Grande & would like to get a cokeand talk piets, give me a call at 512-422-6371 after 10 or so on Saturday morning.Kevin--------Kevin "Axel" PurteeNX899KPAustin/Georgetown, TXRead this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... __________
Pietenpol-List: Arizona Piet People - Cactus Fly-In
Pietenpol-List: Re: One of Those Days...
Original Posted By: "Jerry Dotson"
Frustrating day today on the Piet. Fabricated the tail fitting numeroustimes to make them fit. Drilled plugged and re-drilled a bunch. Just aheads-up, as you build make sure to calculate for the fabric everywhere.JackDSM________________________________________________________________________________Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: One of Those Days...
Frustrating day today on the Piet. Fabricated the tail fitting numeroustimes to make them fit. Drilled plugged and re-drilled a bunch. Just aheads-up, as you build make sure to calculate for the fabric everywhere.JackDSM________________________________________________________________________________Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: One of Those Days...
Re: Pietenpol-List: Arizona Piet People - Cactus Fly-In
Original Posted By: Andrew M Eldredge
Corky Corbett is a very clever and resourceful man, and he usedthe wheels, brakes, and axles from an older Cessna 172 on the main landing gearof NX41CC. The Skyhawk has been in production since 1955 and over 43,000of them have been built. There are many, many of them in pieces insalvage yards, and many more repair parts available for them. Theaxles are very "standard" (if there is such a thing), so are thewheels, brakes, tires, and other parts. As in "cheap and available".41CC rolls on McCreary Aero Trainer 6.00-6 tires which run about $60 a popbut I've only worn one out in five years of flying. Replacement brakepads are available from all of the aircraft parts houses and theRapco ones are about twenty bucks a pair. I have pressed out theold rivets, replaced the pads, and set new rivets on both mains forabout forty bucks and don't expect to have to do it again for anotherfive to seven years, or more (if I lay off the brakes!).The brakes on 41CC were designed to stop and hold an airplane with twicethe gross weight and horsepower as my Air Camper, so as you can imagineI don't have any problem stopping or holding the airplane but I've nevergotten the feeling that I was going to put it over on its nose by gettingon the brakes, either. Smooth, effective, and predictable.Folks, when you're selecting hardware think like Bernard Pietenpol did.You can either pick something that nobody else anywhere has on theirairplane and you will have to baby those parts for the rest of the airplane'slife, or else find something that everybody is familiar with and thatparts can be found for. There were almost 5 million Ford Model A carsproduced between 1927 and 1931, so Mr. Pietenpol was wise in selectingthe Ford engine for his early Air Campers. As to the Corvair that he usedon his later airplanes, there were several hundred thousand of those producedin the years that he was still building and flying Corvair-powered Piets(excluding the oddball and rare variant cars and vans), so again- he wentwith something available, affordable, convenient, and well known in the marketplace.Pick something you can find parts for and that you can afford. Oscar ZunigaAir Camper NX41CC "Scout"San Antonio, TXwebsite at http://www.flysquirrel.net ________________________________________________________________________________Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 20:48:09 -0700Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Arizona Piet People - Cactus Fly-In
Corky Corbett is a very clever and resourceful man, and he usedthe wheels, brakes, and axles from an older Cessna 172 on the main landing gearof NX41CC. The Skyhawk has been in production since 1955 and over 43,000of them have been built. There are many, many of them in pieces insalvage yards, and many more repair parts available for them. Theaxles are very "standard" (if there is such a thing), so are thewheels, brakes, tires, and other parts. As in "cheap and available".41CC rolls on McCreary Aero Trainer 6.00-6 tires which run about $60 a popbut I've only worn one out in five years of flying. Replacement brakepads are available from all of the aircraft parts houses and theRapco ones are about twenty bucks a pair. I have pressed out theold rivets, replaced the pads, and set new rivets on both mains forabout forty bucks and don't expect to have to do it again for anotherfive to seven years, or more (if I lay off the brakes!).The brakes on 41CC were designed to stop and hold an airplane with twicethe gross weight and horsepower as my Air Camper, so as you can imagineI don't have any problem stopping or holding the airplane but I've nevergotten the feeling that I was going to put it over on its nose by gettingon the brakes, either. Smooth, effective, and predictable.Folks, when you're selecting hardware think like Bernard Pietenpol did.You can either pick something that nobody else anywhere has on theirairplane and you will have to baby those parts for the rest of the airplane'slife, or else find something that everybody is familiar with and thatparts can be found for. There were almost 5 million Ford Model A carsproduced between 1927 and 1931, so Mr. Pietenpol was wise in selectingthe Ford engine for his early Air Campers. As to the Corvair that he usedon his later airplanes, there were several hundred thousand of those producedin the years that he was still building and flying Corvair-powered Piets(excluding the oddball and rare variant cars and vans), so again- he wentwith something available, affordable, convenient, and well known in the marketplace.Pick something you can find parts for and that you can afford. Oscar ZunigaAir Camper NX41CC "Scout"San Antonio, TXwebsite at http://www.flysquirrel.net ________________________________________________________________________________Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 20:48:09 -0700Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Arizona Piet People - Cactus Fly-In