Ron Kakeldey and I told MAM the v brace was too light-they sent us beefed up
ones but looks about the same to me. Welded tabs on Ron's and still hangin
on to that M14 with 50 hours on floats but have not been in any real big
water yet. We have a 4130 angle bracket with gussets between the v brace and
top mount. I think I will sleeve my upper tube and then gusset the tabs. Say
hi to Shivers if you see him.
Steve Rhodes
Moose 173
rhodes5@gci.net
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From: "Al & Deb Paxhia" <paxhia2@comcast.net>
To: <murphy-rebel@dcsol.com>
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 06:31
Subject: SR V-brace
brokeA couple of weeks ago in heavy water up near Echo Bay, BC the v-brace
nownear the bolt tab where it attaches to the wing carry through. Yesterday I
learned a second lesson, don't play in choppy water with a broken v-brace.
This time some of the rivets that hold the instrument panel to the side
posts sheared. Luckily no damage only needed to replace the rivets. For
endstaying I'm out of the water until the v-brace is fixed.
This is what I found out today.
1. MAM has a new motor mount for the Lycoming engine with a 5th firewall
mount that attaches to the v-brace.
2. Other builders have expressed concern regarding the welded tab on the
glareshieldof the v-brace tube.
3.The geometry of the v-brace needs to be in line from the wing carry
through to the 5 th engine mount, not to a angle bracket at the
morelevel.
4. One builder has welded gussets on the side of the tabs to give them
thatstrength.
Has anyone had a problem in this area and are there any other solutions
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Al
Moose on 3500 Montana's
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