bill.hutchison
Well Known Member
My Dad has gotten into machining parts and stuff for his car projects. I'm in VA and he's down in FL, so when I bought an airplane he got kind of excited for me and has offered to make bits and pieces as I've needed them. I had shown him some of the wing-jack threads and designs and he decided to make me something nice for the shop.
The jack is the standard Harbor Freight flat-bottomed ram jack. The base is 3/4" plywood. He made the collar, mounts, legs and base brackets out of standard aluminum stock.
The sleeve on the top of the jack is a tapered piece of billet, and the wing jack "pad" is domed and fits nicely into the taper. It's a very solid structure.
He probably over-engineered the **** out of it, but he had fun making it for me and it's really, really cool, so I thought I'd share.
The jack is the standard Harbor Freight flat-bottomed ram jack. The base is 3/4" plywood. He made the collar, mounts, legs and base brackets out of standard aluminum stock.
The sleeve on the top of the jack is a tapered piece of billet, and the wing jack "pad" is domed and fits nicely into the taper. It's a very solid structure.
He probably over-engineered the **** out of it, but he had fun making it for me and it's really, really cool, so I thought I'd share.