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Gang,
If anyone's interested, I came up with a different way to avoid accidental braking on my pedals. It's all-to-easy to hit those brakes, especially in taildraggers during the rudder dance on landing.
I wanted something "cheap, quick, strong, easy". No mods to the pedals or weldments. Pull the existing bolts. Drill the smaller ones (outboard) out to 1/4". Install the new bolt/pin/tubes and you're done.
Others have added a heel extension to the bottom of the pedal. Works ok .... but I didn't like the angle or the amount of upward pressure this can put on the master cylinder seals.
My "brainstorm" was to fabricate a free-rotating bar across the pedal in place of the two clevis bolts. Piece of cake, right? What started a simple exercise turned into a global hunt for exotic bolts.
Skip to end of long "bolt hunting" story: I should be able to get the whole thing made up for around $20/pair in quantity. The bolt/pin is a semi-custom item....none of the big hardware suppliers had what I needed but they can be made to order. But the minimum quantities are pretty large.
This ain't a profit-maker. I have my 2 prototype bolts already. Normally I'd just point you to where to get the hardware but these bolts are way too expensive to be ordered in singles.
If you're vaguely interested, let me know so I can get an approximate head-count. Figure on $20-25/aircraft (bolts, tubes, etc) incl. shipping....if I get enough interest to place an order for the bolt/pins.
Ship
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If anyone's interested, I came up with a different way to avoid accidental braking on my pedals. It's all-to-easy to hit those brakes, especially in taildraggers during the rudder dance on landing.
I wanted something "cheap, quick, strong, easy". No mods to the pedals or weldments. Pull the existing bolts. Drill the smaller ones (outboard) out to 1/4". Install the new bolt/pin/tubes and you're done.
Others have added a heel extension to the bottom of the pedal. Works ok .... but I didn't like the angle or the amount of upward pressure this can put on the master cylinder seals.
My "brainstorm" was to fabricate a free-rotating bar across the pedal in place of the two clevis bolts. Piece of cake, right? What started a simple exercise turned into a global hunt for exotic bolts.
Skip to end of long "bolt hunting" story: I should be able to get the whole thing made up for around $20/pair in quantity. The bolt/pin is a semi-custom item....none of the big hardware suppliers had what I needed but they can be made to order. But the minimum quantities are pretty large.
This ain't a profit-maker. I have my 2 prototype bolts already. Normally I'd just point you to where to get the hardware but these bolts are way too expensive to be ordered in singles.
If you're vaguely interested, let me know so I can get an approximate head-count. Figure on $20-25/aircraft (bolts, tubes, etc) incl. shipping....if I get enough interest to place an order for the bolt/pins.
Ship
[email protected]