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Nigel:

I went with compression blocks glued in place.

I don't know how you'd get the rear bolt in once the floor corner wraps are
in place. The nut goes in via the inspection cutout in the door sill.
Also, your fuel line is probably going to wind up coming out above the
forward bolt, so again you'd have a hard time getting the bolt in from
above.

Al

----- Original Message -----
From: "N.Smith" <admin@airnig.co.uk>
To: <rebel-builders@dcsol.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 5:11 PM
Subject: RE: Elite Spring Gear crush tubes & compression block question

Thanks Wayne

I'll go for a few blobs of Sikaflex

Nig

-----Original Message-----
From: mike.davis@dcsol.com [mailto:mike.davis@dcsol.com]On Behalf Of
Wayne G. O'Shea
Sent: 23 November 2004 18:18
To: Murphy Rebel Builders List
Subject: Fw: Elite Spring Gear crush tubes & compression block question


The word "crate" is of course supposed to be create!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wayne G. O'Shea" <oifa@irishfield.on.ca>
To: <rebel-builders@dcsol.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 1:12 PM
Subject: Re: Elite Spring Gear crush tubes & compression block question

Nig, one more before I get back in the shop! I Sikaflexed the blocks in
place. Any thing..proseal, RTV etc would do.

The single 3/8" leg retainer bolt I put the nut on the outsid.....

where

it's easy to properly torque. The saddle bolts probably have some merrit
going in from below as if you stripped a nut in a hard arrival the

bending

bolt might crate enough friction to hold you up somewhat to negate a

prop

strike.....although it definitely will add a bit of work to switching

over

to the float brackets like you have envisioned!

Cheers,
Wayne

----- Original Message -----
From: "N.Smith" <admin@airnig.co.uk>
To: <rebel-builders@dcsol.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 12:55 PM
Subject: Elite Spring Gear crush tubes & compression block question

Hi All

Just a quick question about the spring gear compression tubes SG-10

and

compression block SG-5 that surround the AN5 and AN6 bolts holding on

the

gear legs inside the FUS 5 carrythrough's.

The manual shows the bolts going in from underneath, with the nut on

the

top.

My question is has anyone had a problem when changing from spring gear

to

floats or the other way round and whilst the bolt is removed the

compression

tubes or block move and cannot be relocated around the bolt. If the

bolt

was

mounted from above the nut could be removed and the bolt left more or

less

in place lying through the fuselage so the tubes remain located

correctly.

The other option may be to "glue" the tubes in position before the

floor

is

riveted down ?

Ideas, or am I just worrying about a non event (hopefully starting to

rivet

the floor down later tomorrow so thought I'd check :-)

Nigel
745E




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