PVC cylinder shaft spacer for amphibs- and other off topic s

[Wayne G. O'Shea]

You have to figure that the price is mostly labour for lathe and mill time
to make all the parts. I can see it as an honest manufacturing cost
considering the low volume and material costs. Off the shelf from someone
that specializes in air/hydraulics makes more sense to me, but probably
wasn't anything that worked out for Darryl's gear movement strokes.

As for Hydraulic skis, no not Clair's...here in town on something I missed
out on with one guy making the skis with no mounting parts (to avoid
liability for end usage) and another in Orillia making the mount yoke
assemblies. Then John Donaldson (ATC) will be selling finished units and has
a set on his Champ..... and is currently working on getting a TSO for them
so they will be out of just about everyones price range by the time that
happens.

Base skis have been offered to me at $6500 Cdn cash (there's about 150 hrs
labour in each set). Then you have to make (or have made) the attachment
yoke, axle adapters, hydraulic cylinders/hoses etc on top for a current
total of about $8000cdn.

We had 11 airplanes in for our flyin and went through about 38 meals. Was a
nice day (although it started out at -27*C) with no wind and quickly warmed
up until a little breeze came around at about 12:30 and removed the gloves
off picture taking pretty quickly. We still have one dead airplane on the
lake that wouldn't go. A Challenger with 583 engine. Checked it out tonight
and the airplane is still there and the engine is gone, but done neatly so I
suspect it was the owner and not a local criminal!!

Cheers,
Wayne

----- Original Message -----
From: "Drew Dalgleish" <drewjan@cabletv.on.ca>
To: <murphy-rebel@dcsol.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 11:13 PM
Subject: Re: PVC cylinder shaft spacer for amphibs

At 10:42 PM 2/17/2004 -0500, you wrote:

Real pisser (no pun intended) though when the floats are brand new and

you

paid good money for them isn't it? Pull it off and send it back to Murphy
for a replacement. Why should you have to live/play with it. Call Stephan
and make sure they have one on the shelf first though! The cylinders are
apparently in the $300+ each area, as a local guy here priced them to see

if

they would be economical for moving a plate on hydraulic skis. Went with

an

off the shelf high quality name brand cylinder for 1/2 the money!

Wayne

$300 for that homebrew clag? That's getting pretty greedy if you ask me.
Wayne Are those the skis clare's working on? How was the fly-in sunday? I
got up for an hour in the morning and it was so clear I think I saw the
smoke from your BBQ ;)
Drew

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