Pushing Monday a little early. Gave my cold to the wifey - making amends in nurse mode.
Hope you had a nice RV weekend!
v/r,dr
PS: Forum software upgrade over the weekend. Might notice diffs and some changes while things get dialed in over the next few days. Patience appreciated.
dr
Lipper03
I'm looking at section 36, 56, and 58 to do the servo bracket installs while I have the tailcone free before the big join. When I rivet the yaw servo mount (F-14189A/B) to each other and F-01407-L/R, will I be able to remove the bellcrank plate (F-14139)? I'm wondering if others can let me know if that's true, because I'd like to just do the servo bracket installs, but not all the hardware and the actual bellcrank at this point. From what I can tell with the nut plates, F-14139 is removable otherwise. It looks like the F-14139 could slide forward from under F-1489A and come out to work on later, but I don't want to get myself into a bind and not be able to do that.
If anyone has done this, or has removed the bellcrank mount at a later point, or has any suggestions, please let me know.
Transport Success! …jeffreyuh60
We were successful in transporting the RV-14 kit over 300 miles this week! Our success was largely due to a great loading team, wheel dollies, lots of bubble wrap, numerous cargo straps, and 60 moving blankets. We wrapped the loose parts with bubble wrap, then layered the flat parts with moving blankets, then bagged and boxed the little items. The two long crates fit forward in the truck on each side. We bolted the QB wings into the rack, and secured it between the two boxes (nice fit, btw). The partially constructed horizontal stabilizer was strapped to one of the wall rails for safe transport. The QB fuselage fit very well between the two wheel well humps on an engine shipping crate. We added the rest of the items, strapped everything down and drove carefully. I-94 in southern Wisconsin is pretty rough for about two hours. There was no speed I could find that relived the fore-aft resonance which may be attributed to the 26' truck wheelbase. A great success and big thanks to Chris and Morgan!
Texasav8r
mulde35d
The instructions call for a 1-1/4” spacer on top of the wheels to be adjusted based upon wheel diameter and type. My question is how little clearance is acceptable?
I am using Wilkerson retreads and the 1-1/4” is way too much. 3/4” is better, but I would like to go down to 1/2”. Thoughts?
1st photo is 1-1/4” spacer
2nd photo is 3/4” spacer
Lots of trimming left to do I know, but want to make sure I don’t take it too low.
kookaburra
Johntwilcox
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v/r,dr
PS: Forum software upgrade over the weekend. Might notice diffs and some changes while things get dialed in over the next few days. Patience appreciated.
dr
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Lipper03
I'm looking at section 36, 56, and 58 to do the servo bracket installs while I have the tailcone free before the big join. When I rivet the yaw servo mount (F-14189A/B) to each other and F-01407-L/R, will I be able to remove the bellcrank plate (F-14139)? I'm wondering if others can let me know if that's true, because I'd like to just do the servo bracket installs, but not all the hardware and the actual bellcrank at this point. From what I can tell with the nut plates, F-14139 is removable otherwise. It looks like the F-14139 could slide forward from under F-1489A and come out to work on later, but I don't want to get myself into a bind and not be able to do that.
If anyone has done this, or has removed the bellcrank mount at a later point, or has any suggestions, please let me know.
section 58-02 yaw servo install question, before big join
I'm looking at section 36, 56, and 58 to do the servo bracket installs while I have the tailcone free before the big join. When I rivet the yaw servo mount (F-14189A/B) to each other and F-01407-L/R, will I be able to remove the bellcrank plate (F-14139)? I'm wondering if others can let me...
www.vansairforce.net
Transport Success! …jeffreyuh60
We were successful in transporting the RV-14 kit over 300 miles this week! Our success was largely due to a great loading team, wheel dollies, lots of bubble wrap, numerous cargo straps, and 60 moving blankets. We wrapped the loose parts with bubble wrap, then layered the flat parts with moving blankets, then bagged and boxed the little items. The two long crates fit forward in the truck on each side. We bolted the QB wings into the rack, and secured it between the two boxes (nice fit, btw). The partially constructed horizontal stabilizer was strapped to one of the wall rails for safe transport. The QB fuselage fit very well between the two wheel well humps on an engine shipping crate. We added the rest of the items, strapped everything down and drove carefully. I-94 in southern Wisconsin is pretty rough for about two hours. There was no speed I could find that relived the fore-aft resonance which may be attributed to the 26' truck wheelbase. A great success and big thanks to Chris and Morgan!
Texasav8r
mulde35d
The instructions call for a 1-1/4” spacer on top of the wheels to be adjusted based upon wheel diameter and type. My question is how little clearance is acceptable?
I am using Wilkerson retreads and the 1-1/4” is way too much. 3/4” is better, but I would like to go down to 1/2”. Thoughts?
1st photo is 1-1/4” spacer
2nd photo is 3/4” spacer
Lots of trimming left to do I know, but want to make sure I don’t take it too low.
Wheel pants clearance question
The instructions call for a 1-1/4” spacer on top of the wheels to be adjusted based upon wheel diameter and type. My question is how little clearance is acceptable? I am using Wilkerson retreads and the 1-1/4” is way too much. 3/4” is better, but I would like to go down to 1/2”. Thoughts? 1st...
www.vansairforce.net
kookaburra
Johntwilcox
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