[rebel-builders] Rebel Parking Brake-Ooops

[Richard Wampach]

It is like your car. You don't need it at all till you get out of your
big 63 Buick Electra on a hill and It's not in gear or park and the
wheels are not against the curb and you lock the door and you walk back
to open the trunk and start to put on your tennis as it rolls away from
you down the hill as you run bare foot after it to try to unlock the
door with the key and it breaks off in the lock and the car drifts
across the street and smashes into 2 other parked cars that belong to
the friends you were going to meet up with & the second one bangs into a
cop car with two officers in it as they were making out their
reports...after that things get embarrassing and you get a ticket for
"reckless parking" and your friends don't want to play sports with you
again and won't help you at work with some of your hard tasks. Then
after 40 years you get an E mail question to remind your self of the
event again! Well I am certainly glad that never happened to me!!!


Please put in the valve!

Dick

-----Original Message-----
From: mike.davis@dcsol.com [mailto:mike.davis@dcsol.com] On Behalf Of
Ken
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 4:30 PM
To: rebel-builders@dcsol.com
Subject: Re: [rebel-builders] Rebel Parking Brake

Fairly easy to install a holding valve but make sure it has a positive
off position and can't inadvertantly be activated in flight. (Landing
with it on is not recommended...) I paid about $20. for a used valve.

I use it all the time during warmup when I'm heads down playing with
gps, seat belts, maps etc. and consider it a worthwhile safety feature.
It is also occasionaly handy to hold the plane until I get the chocks in

but I've found that to be very rare. Don't think I've ever noticed one
in any other Rebel though.

Ken

Terry Dazey wrote:

Group:

The archive comments are a bit sparse on this question of three years

ago.

What is the opinion of installing a parking brake system on the

Rebel/Elite, specifically on amphibs? How many out there have installed
the valve (tail dragger or amphib)? Necessary?

Thanks in advance for any comments.

Terry Dazey
R662

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[NormIsler]

Do I hear a guilty conscience?

Na. Couldn't be.....
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[Richard Wampach]

-----Original Message-----
From: mike.davis@dcsol.com [mailto:mike.davis@dcsol.com] On Behalf Of
NormIsler@aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 8:32 PM
To: rebel-builders@dcsol.com
Subject: Re: [rebel-builders] Rebel Parking Brake-Ooops

Do I hear a guilty conscience?

Na. Couldn't be.....

Certainly not! I no longer have a conscience over things like that...

BUT I do hope it brings out a good point. Install the parking brake
system

Dick





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[Keith Leitch]

Yeah, or you might be volunteering with the

[Mike Davis]

Gee, I can't believe how dumb some people can be! I had to drop the rear
drive shaft out of my '78 Bronco to replace a bad U joint once, and since my
driveway was on a hill, I put it into 4 wheel drive... so the front wheels
would hold it in park. Even so, when I got the bolts and clamps off it
didn't want to break loose... so, I got a hammer and knocked it good. In
1978 the front hubs were completely manual, and putting the transfer case in
4H doesn't do any good if the hubs aren't locked. So here I am laying on a
creeper under the truck, with the spinning rear drive shaft on my chest,
holding on to the frame of the truck for dear life as I roll backwards down
the driveway, out into and across the street, and into the driveway across
the street. Thank God there was another driveway across the street and not
just a curb!

In addition to using the parking brake, I keep a set of chalks in the same
spot I store my creeper. ;-)

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Leitch" <im_planecrazy@yahoo.com>
To: <rebel-builders@dcsol.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 3:16 AM
Subject: RE: [rebel-builders] Rebel Parking Brake-Ooops

Yeah, or you might be volunteering with the AZ Game And Fish Department
helping them stock fish ponds. You park your car at the top of the hill.
Put the car in gear (manual transmission) thinking it is enough to hold
the car on the hill. You proceed out into the lake chest deep wearing
cumbersome waders.....You hear a big splash....thinking it is just the
fingerlings you just threw in....the head biologist yells, "Oh shit!!!"
....you turn around to see your car floating like a boober on the pond.
You try to run over hoping you can just jump in and back it out. Well you
finally wobble yourself over to the car and realize the shoreline is like
a cliff and nearly straight up and down.....the car is actually
floating...for a little while anyways. Granted, the windows are open since
this is the middle of the summer and you are in AZ. The car slowly sinks
up to the windows when the water starts going in much faster. All of a
sudden it sinks like it was just
hit by a torpedo. Totally submerged and full of water it takes two
firetrucks and a wrecker to lift it out.
After getting to fish and water out you dry everything out, drain
everything and continue to drive the car for several months when you
happen to turn on the defroster and LOW AND BEHOLD a dead minnow flys out
of the defroster. Ahhh, the memories.ROTFLMAO!!

True Story....USE THE PARKING BRAKE!!!

PS. I drove this car another 80,000 miles after this. It was a Subaru and
guess what kind of new car I bought last? :)

Keith

--- On Wed, 1/14/09, Richard Wampach <rwampach@comcast.net> wrote:

From: Richard Wampach <rwampach@comcast.net>
Subject: RE: [rebel-builders] Rebel Parking Brake-Ooops
To: rebel-builders@dcsol.com
Date: Wednesday, January 14, 2009, 8:24 PM

It is like your car. You don't need it at all till you get out of your
big 63 Buick Electra on a hill and It's not in gear or park and the
wheels are not against the curb and you lock the door and you walk back
to open the trunk and start to put on your tennis as it rolls away from
you down the hill as you run bare foot after it to try to unlock the
door with the key and it breaks off in the lock and the car drifts
across the street and smashes into 2 other parked cars that belong to
the friends you were going to meet up with & the second one bangs into a
cop car with two officers in it as they were making out their
reports...after that things get embarrassing and you get a ticket for
"reckless parking" and your friends don't want to play sports
with you
again and won't help you at work with some of your hard tasks. Then
after 40 years you get an E mail question to remind your self of the
event again! Well I am certainly glad that never happened to me!!!


Please put in the valve!

Dick

-----Original Message-----
From: mike.davis@dcsol.com [mailto:mike.davis@dcsol.com] On Behalf Of
Ken
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 4:30 PM
To: rebel-builders@dcsol.com
Subject: Re: [rebel-builders] Rebel Parking Brake

Fairly easy to install a holding valve but make sure it has a positive
off position and can't inadvertantly be activated in flight. (Landing
with it on is not recommended...) I paid about $20. for a used valve.

I use it all the time during warmup when I'm heads down playing with
gps, seat belts, maps etc. and consider it a worthwhile safety feature.
It is also occasionaly handy to hold the plane until I get the chocks in

but I've found that to be very rare. Don't think I've ever noticed
one
in any other Rebel though.

Ken

Terry Dazey wrote:

Group:

The archive comments are a bit sparse on this question of three years

ago.

What is the opinion of installing a parking brake system on the

Rebel/Elite, specifically on amphibs? How many out there have installed
the valve (tail dragger or amphib)? Necessary?

Thanks in advance for any comments.

Terry Dazey
R662

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