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From: "A Yeoman" <yeom@xtra.co.nz>
Reply-To: <rebel-builders@dcsol.com>
To: <rebel-builders@dcsol.com>
Subject: [rebel-builders] Re:Rebel landing gear
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 20:27:26 +1200

Mike, I have attempted to put three photos in the archives under "rebel
landing gear". They are all I have at this stage, if there is any more
interest I can get more detailed ones.

You will notice the gear is not standard Murphy, I always reckoned a Rebel
should stand a bit taller so this gear is 6" longer with gun drilled brake
lines. I wouldn't have attempted this if I had not already beefed up the
gear attach area. I also extended the luggage area back to the next bay and
installed a side cargo door, it all works very well.

In regards to the gear beef up I should also 'own up' to all that I have
done ;-) as well as the carrythrough inserts, larger gear attach bolts,
stress beam I have also increased the thickness of the skin under the door
sill to 32thou along with the rolled corners in front of the door post, the
bottom skin under the cabin has been made heavier ( although I believe with
little effect as this was done before the stress beam went in) and the
right
angle material joining the bottom skin and door sill skin has been made
heavier and widened to make room for two rows of rivets.

Other things I have done would be running a top hat section from under the
top engine mount back to the witches hat just in front of the door post ( I
got cracking in the insrument panel area from movement there) and of course
all the float fix mods have been done including double pitching the rivets
on the door post. The tail section has had the two doublers added. It is
probably worth noting I also found smoking rivets on the forward end of the
tail wrap so have put a doubler there as well, although I advise any one
building over here just to extend the forward end of the tail wrap and put
in two rows of rivets, that seems to work.

Sounds an awfull lot doesn't it? But having said that I have not had a sign
of anything moving now for years, as I say it seems bullet proof, I would
take it anywhere you could land it safely and some of the strips are very
rough.

Some people say if you do hit any thing and rip the gear off the damage in
the area of the gear will be more severe because of the added strength, I
would be more concerned of the secondry damage and saftey issues of losing
your gear in the first place.

Hope this is of interest to some of you with concerns regards the Rebel
landing gear.

And Hi Curt...... calvings going like a rocket thanks .....;-)

Cheers

Alister

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Davis" <mike.davis@dcsol.com>
To: <rebel-builders@dcsol.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 4:50 AM
Subject: Re: [rebel-builders] Rambler Returns/Rebel landing gear

Hi Alister, I don't think we have a photo of your stress beam

installation

on the archive site anymore... that was posted before the server crash a
couple of years ago. Perhaps you could upload a couple again for those
who
are interested.

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "A Yeoman" <yeom@xtra.co.nz>
To: <rebel-builders@dcsol.com>
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 11:52 PM
Subject: Re: [rebel-builders] Rambler Returns/Rebel landing gear

Regards Rebel landing gear, I have been flying my Rebel ( #513) for

about

9
years now ( minus 3 years being rebuilt after a slight whoopsie) and

have

my
spring gear to a point where I would say it is bullet proof. The

aircraft

has been well tested in rough of field landings. A few things needed to
be
done, such as inserting solid aluminium blocks into the ends of the
carrythroughs, increasing the size of the attach bolts and building a
stress
carrying beam that bolts under the straddle brackets and back to a hard
point where the rear bungee gear attach point would normally be, I have
found this distributes the braking type loads and adds immense strength
to
the gear attach.

Cheers

Alister (New Zealand)


----- Original Message -----
From: <bransom@dcsol.com>
To: <rebel-builders@dcsol.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2007 6:04 PM
Subject: Re: [rebel-builders] Rambler Returns/Rebel landing gear

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