Terry; you'll never be able to completely remove your dogtags from that airplane. Mine is still sometimes referred to as "Corky Corbett's Piet", or even "Joe Czaplicki's Piet", since Joe started it, Corky finished it, and I now own it. Get used to it ;o)
-Oscar
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- Mon Apr 18, 2022 10:33 am
- Forum: Classified Ads
- Topic: Your help is needed
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1185
- Tue Apr 12, 2022 10:38 pm
- Forum: Pietenpol Builders Forum
- Topic: bench vise jaw protection
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1381
Re: bench vise jaw protection
Egg-zactly! I've been too lazy to do this right, and have marred a number of clean shiny pieces of metal due to my laziness. Let's do this right!
-OZ
-OZ
- Tue Apr 12, 2022 10:20 am
- Forum: Pietenpol Builders Forum
- Topic: bench vise jaw protection
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1381
Re: bench vise jaw protection
Clay; thanks. I had another Pietenpoler point me towards these magnetically-held vise jaw pads and it was a "why didn't I think of that" moment.
-Oscar
-Oscar
- Mon Apr 11, 2022 1:09 pm
- Forum: Pietenpol Builders Forum
- Topic: bench vise jaw protection
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1381
bench vise jaw protection
Hello, builders; after years of doing my bench tasks with a simple little Sears vise and beating the heck out of it, I finally stepped up a notch and got a heavier table and a larger vise that allows three degrees of freedom and also lets me handle larger items. The problem is that the faces of thes...
- Sun Apr 10, 2022 1:32 pm
- Forum: Pietenpol Builders Forum
- Topic: Center section tank straps
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1962
Re: Center section tank straps
Yes, I've pumped my share of avgas too. My plane's tank is in the nose but it's still a bit of a pain to get the ladder in close enough so I can see down into the filler neck, while not bumping the plane with the ladder. Wing centersection tank builders should go for that filler offset for sure. -Os...
- Thu Apr 07, 2022 10:46 am
- Forum: Pietenpol Builders Forum
- Topic: Center section tank straps
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1962
Re: Center section tank straps
Beautiful work!
-Oscar
-Oscar
- Thu Mar 24, 2022 12:14 am
- Forum: Pietenpol Builders Forum
- Topic: Shock spring contruction
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2673
Re: Shock spring contruction
Let's look at the side-force scenario, where there is a crosswind and the plane lands hard on the downwind side till we can get the upwind wing down and things under control. gear2.JPG As the plane is pushed to the downwind side and the tire contacts the runway, a force pushing the gear back the oth...
- Wed Mar 23, 2022 10:44 am
- Forum: Pietenpol Builders Forum
- Topic: Shock spring contruction
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2673
Re: Shock spring contruction
Also note that in the hard landing scenario, the wing struts are applying a down force into the same attach fitting as the landing gear legs are applying an up force into, which somewhat balances or offsets the forces there. The weight of the wings as the plane hits the runway pushes the wing struts...
- Wed Mar 23, 2022 12:12 am
- Forum: Pietenpol Builders Forum
- Topic: Shock spring contruction
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2673
Re: Shock spring contruction
Let's think about this. In the conventional J-3 gear, and the gear on my airplane, the two diagonal downtubes that form the vee are welded, not bolted, onto the tops of the rectangular plates that the spring struts attach to. That being the case, they form a rigid triangular assembly that might as w...
- Sun Mar 20, 2022 11:44 am
- Forum: Pietenpol Builders Forum
- Topic: Shock spring contruction
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2673
Re: Shock spring contruction
Ah, yes... back to the original question. I assume you're talking about the same setup and geometry as I have on 41CC, and if so, I can throw in my two cents' worth on what I think the forces might be in different loadings. Is this the setup?
-Oscar
-Oscar
- Thu Mar 17, 2022 3:50 pm
- Forum: Pietenpol Builders Forum
- Topic: Shock spring contruction
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2673
Re: Shock spring contruction
I'm not a welder, so I can't provide advice or opinion on that subject. I use a very skilled welder for all of that work. He is also a pilot and an experimental aircraft builder, so he's comfortable with doing aircraft welding.
-Oscar
-Oscar
- Wed Mar 16, 2022 11:04 pm
- Forum: Pietenpol Builders Forum
- Topic: Shock spring contruction
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2673
Re: Shock spring contruction
Yeah, that was my article in the Newsletter and you raise an interesting point. Let me chew on that a little while ;o) Meanwhile, let me encourage builders not to skimp on the landing gear parts, pieces, or connections- and especially not on the welds. Ask me how I know. Rough off-field landing, gea...
- Wed Mar 16, 2022 10:35 am
- Forum: Pietenpol Builders Forum
- Topic: What size for steel sheet in landing gear?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1650
Re: What size for steel sheet in landing gear?
Kinda thought I recognized those turned wood 'streamline' blocks at the bungees ;o)
- Tue Feb 22, 2022 10:54 pm
- Forum: Classified Ads
- Topic: Pietenpol Project
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2230
Re: Pietenpol Project
Terry: wait. It's only February 22, not April 1. No foolin'-? This is a sad state of affairs, letting this excellent project go, and at such a low cost. Whoever gets this project will indeed have a solid start on a very well constructed Pietenvair.
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
- Mon Feb 21, 2022 10:37 pm
- Forum: Pietenpol Builders Forum
- Topic: Shock Struts
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1345
Re: Shock Struts
Spend a little time on Westcoastpiet. For starters, look at Jim Boyer's pictures, and Kurt Shipman's. I realize that those are pictures of complete, assembled spring struts, but you'll learn a lot about how they go together from those pictures.
-Oscar
-Oscar
- Tue Feb 08, 2022 11:50 pm
- Forum: Pietenpol Builders Forum
- Topic: question gear axle
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2383
Re: question gear axle
Jeffrey; As you'll see from these pix of the starboard and port side axles on my airplane, they are stock items, bolted to matching pads that are welded to stubs that form clusters where the gear leg downtubes and the spring struts all attach. You may not be planning to use bolt-on Cleveland-style a...
- Tue Feb 08, 2022 3:28 pm
- Forum: Pietenpol Builders Forum
- Topic: question gear axle
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2383
Re: question gear axle
I have 6.00x6 Cleveland wheels and brakes on my Piet and would be happy to send photos of how it all attaches. Probably be useful to you since I have the wheels and brakes off the axles right now for overhaul, so you can see the axles and how they attach to the gear legs without anything else in the...
- Tue Jan 25, 2022 10:43 pm
- Forum: Pietenpol Builders Forum
- Topic: Split gear fitting plans question
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1587
Re: Split gear fitting plans question
I think it's been shown both from the plans and from anecdotal comments received from people who knew and worked with Bernard Pietenpol that the strap between the gear/strut attach fittings running under the belly is not a critical structural element. Drawing No. 3 of the Hoopman plans notes that th...
- Wed Jan 12, 2022 10:40 am
- Forum: Pietenpol Builders Forum
- Topic: New Member in California
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3099
Re: New Member in California
If you had some time to spare, you could get up to Frazier Lake Airpark (near Hollister/Gilroy) the first weekend in June for the West Coast Piet Fly-In. Only about six hours' drive from Riverside ;o)
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
Air Camper NX41CC, A75 power
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
Air Camper NX41CC, A75 power
- Sat Dec 25, 2021 4:24 pm
- Forum: Pietenpol Builders Forum
- Topic: Wood prop for Corvair
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1262
Re: Wood prop for Corvair
The place to get your answer is on the CorvAircraft list or William Wynne's Flycorvair facebook page.
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
Air Camper NX41CC, A75 power
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
Air Camper NX41CC, A75 power
- Fri Nov 19, 2021 3:34 pm
- Forum: Pietenpol Builders Forum
- Topic: Instructions for final assembly.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1272
Re: Instructions for final assembly.
Sorry... I don't think it was me, but now you've got me curious.
-Oscar
-Oscar
- Thu Oct 07, 2021 11:01 pm
- Forum: Pietenpol Builders Forum
- Topic: Split gear construction
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3694
Re: Split gear construction
How to build the spring struts is all right here: https://flycorvair.net/2012/10/27/new-d ... a-m-4-p-m/
-Oscar
-Oscar
- Wed Oct 06, 2021 10:37 pm
- Forum: Pietenpol Builders Forum
- Topic: Split gear construction
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3694
Re: Split gear construction
John; if you're thinking of the Cub-style gear, I can highly recommend the "canned spring" die spring gear setup as done by William Wynne. My spring struts are similar but are not enclosed as the WW style are. See photo below, side-by-side comparison of the traditional Bungee shock arrange...
- Thu Sep 30, 2021 11:18 pm
- Forum: Classified Ads
- Topic: Wanted Cont. 65 motor mount.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1607
Re: Wanted Cont. 65 motor mount.
Glasscamper, since you moved away from looking for an engine mount to purchase and are now building your own, you should post followups on the regular chat part of this site rather than here in the classifieds. I'm sure others will be interested in how your mount progresses. Oscar Zuniga Medford, OR...
- Thu Sep 30, 2021 11:12 pm
- Forum: Pietenpol Builders Forum
- Topic: Tail rigging wire locations
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1815
Re: Tail rigging wire locations
I just looked at my plans and I see what you mean. About the only reason I can think of is that the brace wire anchor points end up about as far out on the stabilizer spars as practical without getting into gussets and hinges, and if the wires are run clear out to the ends the angle of the brace wir...
- Thu Sep 30, 2021 10:40 pm
- Forum: Pietenpol Builders Forum
- Topic: bungee cord question for jenny style gear
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3794
Re: bungee cord question for jenny style gear
I am not using bungee cords but to me there's a question when people say they used safety wire to secure the ends. My question would be, 0.032" safety wire, or 0.041"?
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
Air Camper NX41CC, A75 power
die spring struts
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
Air Camper NX41CC, A75 power
die spring struts
- Tue Aug 10, 2021 11:19 pm
- Forum: Pietenpol Builders Forum
- Topic: Pietenpol Flight Characteristics
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2362
Re: Pietenpol Flight Characteristics
Oh, and I guess I should say my references were to J-3 Cubs, not the E-2.
-Oscar
-Oscar
- Tue Aug 10, 2021 11:12 pm
- Forum: Pietenpol Builders Forum
- Topic: Pietenpol Flight Characteristics
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2362
Re: Pietenpol Flight Characteristics
I have time in my Piet as well as time in J-3 Cubs and Super Cubs. You'll hear comments about the flight characteristic differences that are all over the place, so just take my comments as my own observations and not universal among other pilots with the same experience. I don't think that anyone wi...
- Fri Aug 06, 2021 10:39 am
- Forum: Classified Ads
- Topic: Wanted WW W&B
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1914
Re: Wanted WW W&B
The W&B manual is a very useful and important resource for any Piet builder or pilot. And 'hey' back to you, glasscamper.
-Oscar
-Oscar
- Sun Aug 01, 2021 11:08 pm
- Forum: Pietenpol Builders Forum
- Topic: Floats
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2256
Re: Floats
I have a set of plans for Muktuk wood floats that I lent to Dick Navratil (I think) and a set of floats were to be built from them at Brodhead or Oshkosh as a demonstration. I don't think that ever happened and I now have my plans back.
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
Air Camper NX41CC, A75 power
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
Air Camper NX41CC, A75 power
- Sat Jul 03, 2021 1:43 pm
- Forum: Pietenpol Builders Forum
- Topic: Houston TX area builder/pilots
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2561
Re: Houston TX area builder/pilots
Thank you, Doug. Now Gladewater is a fur piece away from Houston, but coincidentally is only about 82 miles from Shreveport, where my Air Camper was built and first flown.
-Oscar
-Oscar
- Thu Jul 01, 2021 1:58 pm
- Forum: Pietenpol Builders Forum
- Topic: Houston TX area builder/pilots
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2561
Re: Houston TX area builder/pilots
Nothing new to me, Richard, and it doesn't faze me.
-Oscar
-Oscar
- Wed Jun 30, 2021 10:47 pm
- Forum: Pietenpol Builders Forum
- Topic: Houston TX area builder/pilots
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2561
Houston TX area builder/pilots
Howdy, Pietenpeople in and around Houston (Hans van der Voort in Waller- you too!)- my wife and I are thinking ahead to when I retire, maybe heading back to TX and the Houston area, but not the busy metro area. I've never lived out that way; the nearest thing to it was the summer I spent in Nacogdoc...
- Wed Jun 23, 2021 10:46 pm
- Forum: Pietenpol Builders Forum
- Topic: About fuel tank design and CG.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3070
Re: About fuel tank design and CG.
Let's think about this. If you have 12.5 gallons of fuel up in the wing centersection (which puts it on the CG, for all practical purposes), then it will be feeding into your header tank for a couple of flight hours with relatively no noticeable effect on the CG. I can't sit for more than a couple o...
- Mon Jun 21, 2021 1:11 am
- Forum: Pietenpol Builders Forum
- Topic: Heel Brakes
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4879
Re: Heel Brakes
Dan; does the brake cable go around a pulley to change direction before entering the outer sheath? Looks that way but I can't be sure.
-Oscar Z.
-Oscar Z.
- Tue Jun 15, 2021 8:50 am
- Forum: Pietenpol Builders Forum
- Topic: Heel Brakes
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4879
Re: Heel Brakes
Terry; I have seen pix of some very elegantly executed heel brakes and if I were building a new Piet I would consider that setup. That may be partly due to the fact that my first training, and my first supervised solo, were done in a J-3 with expander-tube brakes with heel actuation. The expander tu...
- Thu Jun 03, 2021 10:29 pm
- Forum: Pietenpol Builders Forum
- Topic: Brake master cylinder mountings
- Replies: 58
- Views: 23801
Re: Brake master cylinder mountings
Richard; I take it from where the grass is way up on the tail brace wires that you're glad the airplane is painted a bright color? Otherwise, you'd be so deep in the grass when you stop that you might lose the airplane in that tall stuff ;o) Good heavens, man-! If you're landing in stuff that tall, ...
- Wed Jun 02, 2021 11:23 pm
- Forum: Pietenpol Builders Forum
- Topic: Brake master cylinder mountings
- Replies: 58
- Views: 23801
Re: Brake master cylinder mountings
Was there a break-in routine specified for the new brakes? When I replaced the pads on my brakes with new Rapco linings, there was a procedure that basically involved some fast taxi while dragging the brakes to heat them up. May be different for other brakes, other pads. Here's what Rapco says about...
- Sun May 30, 2021 10:21 pm
- Forum: Pietenpol Builders Forum
- Topic: Brake master cylinder mountings
- Replies: 58
- Views: 23801
Re: Brake master cylinder mountings
Looking good, and they will no doubt work just fine for you. Nice closeup of those fluid reservoirs on the brakes... from the plumbing section of the aero supply store ;o) It looks like your tires are McCreary Aero Trainers. Same as what I fly except mine are 6.00x6s right now; going to 8s one of th...
- Wed May 26, 2021 10:09 pm
- Forum: Pietenpol Builders Forum
- Topic: Thinking about landinding gear
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2798
Re: Thinking about landinding gear
I think it's nice to get the fuselage on the gear as soon as you can, for two reasons: (1) it's easier to roll around that way, and (2) it elevates your excitement and satisfaction to see something that looks like an airplane. Of course you don't have to bolt up the gear if you know you'll be flippi...
- Mon May 24, 2021 10:42 pm
- Forum: Pietenpol Builders Forum
- Topic: Brake master cylinder mountings
- Replies: 58
- Views: 23801
Re: Brake master cylinder mountings
Yes, I noticed those reservoirs. I like your brake pedals, too. What brake line tubing are you planning to use? I used Nylaflo on mine after reading up on the pros and cons. It's not recommended for brake lines where the wheels and brakes are inside of tight-fitting wheel pants or on planes that ope...
- Sun May 23, 2021 10:33 pm
- Forum: Pietenpol Builders Forum
- Topic: Brake master cylinder mountings
- Replies: 58
- Views: 23801
Re: Brake master cylinder mountings
Don't stop now, Richard! (pardon the pun ;o)
-Oscar Z.
-Oscar Z.
- Wed May 05, 2021 10:38 pm
- Forum: Pietenpol Builders Forum
- Topic: Brake master cylinder mountings
- Replies: 58
- Views: 23801
Re: Brake master cylinder mountings
Richard; I'm right there with you. Pulling annual on my Piet and next on the list is to pull the wheels and brakes for cleaning, servicing the bearings, and swapping my 6.00 tires and tubes for 8s. I just think the plane will look better and will give me just a bit more deck angle in the 3-point lan...
- Tue Apr 27, 2021 4:30 pm
- Forum: Pietenpol Builders Forum
- Topic: N34KP's spark plug bushings
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2975
Re: N34KP's spark plug bushings
Clever piece of work. They say that necessity is the mother of invention, and you sure have the earmarks of one of her children!
-Oscar
-Oscar
- Sat Apr 24, 2021 12:23 pm
- Forum: Pietenpol Builders Forum
- Topic: Vertical Stab attachment bolt holes
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4614
Re: Vertical Stab attachment bolt holes
The only experience I have is with my airplane, A75, wood fuselage. The first couple of years I owned the plane I flew it with one foot always holding a little pressure on one side of the rudder bar but I thought that's just the way it was with this Air Camper and most others flying in this configur...
- Thu Apr 22, 2021 11:21 am
- Forum: Pietenpol Builders Forum
- Topic: Vertical Stab attachment bolt holes
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4614
Re: Vertical Stab attachment bolt holes
John; either way works. I was trying to keep you from making a hole in the longeron, you're trying to get the hole to land there. It's your airplane, you pick ;o)
-Oscar
-Oscar
- Wed Apr 21, 2021 10:41 pm
- Forum: Pietenpol Builders Forum
- Topic: Vertical Stab attachment bolt holes
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4614
Re: Vertical Stab attachment bolt holes
My suggestion? It's easy to measure, cut, and glue in a cross-block between the longerons so you can bolt through that. The epoxy will be dry in the morning and you can carry on ;o)
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
Air Camper NX41CC, A75 power
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
Air Camper NX41CC, A75 power
- Mon Apr 12, 2021 11:16 pm
- Forum: Pietenpol Builders Forum
- Topic: N34KP
- Replies: 27
- Views: 14819
Re: N34KP
Wait... I just remembered that Ken is an academic and he followed the logic in my narrative perfectly. So for him and the other grammarians out there, I was talking about having to make a third tail tiedown release lever, NOT get a third COVID jab. And my excuse is that the after-effects of the shot...
- Mon Apr 12, 2021 11:05 pm
- Forum: Pietenpol Builders Forum
- Topic: N34KP
- Replies: 27
- Views: 14819
Re: N34KP
Ken Bickers! I just fell out of my chair! Third jab, indeed ;o)
Richard: It takes all day to make a nice part so I can tell a nice story, but dagnabbit- it only took one or two seconds to ruin a perfectly good part. And so it goes ;o)
-Oscar
Richard: It takes all day to make a nice part so I can tell a nice story, but dagnabbit- it only took one or two seconds to ruin a perfectly good part. And so it goes ;o)
-Oscar
- Mon Apr 12, 2021 11:00 pm
- Forum: Pietenpol Builders Forum
- Topic: Pietenpol Aerial
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2594
Re: Pietenpol Aerial
Having owned a St. Croix Aerial project for a short time (just long enough to separate the beautiful set of landing gear from it), I can speak to this subject just a bit but not very much. To me, the Aerial (which is not a Pietenpol Air Camper) will appeal to builders who like the Air Camper but als...