Brodhead Pietenpol Association

Original Posted By: "K5YAC"
Michael, Looking at the bottom of the 'Drawing No. 1' plans sheet, I see the rear seat supportshown as being 6" high. This piece of plywood goes on the front of theseat bottom (towards the middle of the sheet there is a 3D sketch of the rearseat that shows this), so that means the seat according to plans is 6" high inthe front. The seat back is shown at 21" tall, so from those two dimensions youcan figure the height and angle. HTH,RyanOn Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Michael Perez wrote:I can't seem to find dimensions on the prints for the pilot seat height. BeforeI lose my mind all together, could someone tell me where I may find them. Or,if anyone has a suggestion on seat height, seat angle, etc, I would appreciateit.________________________________________________________________________________Subject: Pietenpol-List: Jack's Wing Ribs

Original Posted By: owner-pietenpol-list-server(at)matronics.com
Yep - just nails. I nailed through the capstrips into the spar, then readTony Bingelis who said that was no longer the preferred method. Oh well -it worked.There is no reason to glue the ribs to the spars. The ribs aren't loaded insuch a way to make them move relative to the spar and once they arerib-laced, they can't go anywhere anyway. The nails are just to hold themin place during covering.Jack PhillipsNX899JPRaleigh, NC-----Original Message-----

Original Posted By: "dwilson"
Charlie Rubeck built and sold Western Red Cedar Ribs for many years. After talkingwith Charlie at Brodhead 11 years ago, I too built using WRC, 1/16 birch gussetsand T-88. I was able to get all rib stock from (2) 8-ft 4x4's. At the timethey were about $12ea. I recently bought some clear 8' WRC 4x4's for an arborproject and they were nearly $50ea. Be sure to follow aircraft grading standardswhen looking at the end-grain and slope.Being the engineer type, I built a test fixture and tested one of my finished ribs.I loaded the rib to 11G's before I heard a crack somewhere. Never did findit.--------PAPA MIKERead this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... ___Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: Jack's Wing Ribs