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taildragon(at)msn.com
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Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 2:12 pm Post subject: Jacks (Was Serious Front Axle...)

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 Bob,

  

 At the hangar, I use a scissors jack. It compresses to less than 4 inches  and will slip under the nose gear. I made a couple split pipe "jack heads" with  a pin on the bottom for the main gear. Drilled a hole in the plate on top of the  scissors jack for the jack head pin. This is simple and works great when pants  and main fairings are removed. The scissors jack weights a lot so looking for a  lighter weight solution to carry in the plane. What have others done?

  

 Roger

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coop85(at)bellsouth.net
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Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 2:54 pm Post subject: Jacks (Was Serious Front Axle...)

Roger,  

   Sounds like a good idea, any chance of some pictures to solidify what’s in my mind’s eye?  

   

Thanks,

 Marcus  

Do not archive  

         

  

From: owner-rv10-list-server(at)matronics.com [mailto:owner-rv10-list-server(at)matronics.com] On Behalf Of Roger Standley

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Bob,  

    

   

    

At the hangar, I use a scissors jack. It compresses to less than 4 inches and will slip under the nose gear. I made a couple split pipe "jack heads" with a pin on the bottom for the main gear. Drilled a hole in the plate on top of the scissors jack for the jack head pin. This is simple and works great when pants and main fairings are removed. The scissors jack weights a lot so looking for a lighter weight solution to carry in the plane. What have others done?  

    

   

    

Roger  

    

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james.k.hovis(at)gmail.co
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Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 5:56 am Post subject: Jacks (Was Serious Front Axle...)

How we use to do it was with a 55 gal. drum that was cut about 2 ft from the bottom and filled with concrete. A square steel tube was embedded in the concrete with the top cut into a clevis and a 3/8" hole drilled through with a pin of the same size. Whole thing was on a wheeled dolly. The clevis was set about three feet or so off the floor. To jack the front of a plane, wheel the contraption under the tail, push the tail down so the tie-down ring would be in the in the clevis, insert the pin. As long as the contraption weighed enough, the nose wheel would be held off the floor and you could still move it around the shop... 

  

 JKH 



 

 On 8/23/06, Roger Standley <taildragon(at)msn.com (taildragon(at)msn.com)> wrote: [quote]      

 Bob,

  

 At the hangar, I use a scissors jack. It compresses to less than 4 inches and will slip under the nose gear. I made a couple split pipe "jack heads" with a pin on the bottom for the main gear. Drilled a hole in the plate on top of the scissors jack for the jack head pin. This is simple and works great when pants and main fairings are removed. The scissors jack weights a lot so looking for a lighter weight solution to carry in the plane. What have others done? 

  

 Roger

 40291

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