Inspection holes/covers/amphib gear position

[Wayne G. O'Shea]

Also works really good here...
http://www.irishfield.on.ca/gallery/gearcover.jpg
After all the ideas for viewing gear position this has got to be the
simplest. You can only see the fluorescent orange when the gear is fully up
and you are sitting in the cabin. As soon as it moves down it disappears
from view from the cabin. Looking up front for nose wheels present or vacant
is a no brainer....along with counting the pumps strokes. Based on pump
stroke and pressure gauge I'm not even concerned that I don't have the
mirrors I had on FOKM. I had one situation while pumping gear up that I got
the usual pressure and about a minute later my brain clicked and reminded me
I had only counted to 11 and not 15. One nose wheel needed a little more
pressure to start the retract and 4 more pumps and all was ready for water.

Wayne

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Patterson" <beep@sympatico.ca>
To: <rebel-builders@dcsol.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2005 10:06 PM
Subject: Re: Inspection holes

Hi Bob !

One thought that has been done before - bend up an inverted
U channel or a witches hat out of clear Lexan to run the cables &
hoses through on the inside corner wraps. That way you can see
inside, instead of having to remove for inspection. The Lexan
is plenty strong to protect the tubing & wires ...

Similarly, several have made inspection covers out of Lexan -
saves having to remove them for a look ! :-)

......bobp

-------------------------------orig.-------------------------
On Sunday 11 September 2005 10:41 am, Bob Andrews wrote:

Mike,

When I bought 612e, the flap handle was a rooftop installation ... and

there

was some electrical wiring routed under the floor. During the tear

down,

I

removed all the rooftop flap handle stuff. In the rebuild, the flap

handle

is going on the floor with the hyd hand pump (and handle) for the floats
right next to it. The ONLY thing planned to go under the floor is the

flap

control cable run from the flap handle aft to a pulley, then up behind

the

aft cabin area bulkhead, and then forward to a steel tube that connects

both

flaps. Plan to route all wiring and float related hyd and elect lines

on

the floor surface or sides. Currently thinking about running them along
(and on top of) the floor side wraps on the passenger side with a 0.020

sqr

tunnel cover screwed to the floor to cover them. Although I haven't

given

it much thought (currently finishing up the bottom side wraps at the
firewall), think inspection holes (and covers) will need to go in the

floor

for inspecting both the flap cable and for corrosion. Was thinking the

same

size holes as the ones on the bottoms of the control surfaces for

inspecting

the flap control cable areas. Your little holes sound like a good

idea ...

a simple snap-in hole cap might answer the mail.

Bob 612e

-----Original Message-----
From: mike.davis@dcsol.com [mailto:mike.davis@dcsol.com]On Behalf Of
Mike Betti
Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2005 3:04 PM
To: rebel-builders@dcsol.com
Subject: Inspection holes


Hi builders,
I plan on not hidding anything under the floor of my Elite. All
plumbing, wiring done on the surface. I need some way of inspecting the
floor area between the outer skin and inner floor. I was thinking of
drilling a say .5" hole in the outer floor skin between every bulkhead.
Then I can use my borescope for inspections as needed. I would need to
come up with some sort of way to plug the holes which I haven't come up
with yet. Any discusion on this idea is welcome?

I haven't seen any feed back on the flap handle mounting in the rooftop
I inquired on last week. Anyway, Nigel, it looks like the handle
assembly isn't going to come out too easily for service and drilling out
of a couple rivets is going to be the least of it. So I am opting for
only boring the round holes and not notching out as instructed.

Mike Betti
771E



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