Original Posted By: Tim Willis
I am about ready to fabricate my Jury struts on my project. It has the extrudedaluminum struts.and I am not sure whether I will make steel wraps to go aroundthem with tabs to bolt them to or whether I'll make simple L type brackets andpop rivet them to the top surface and bolt to those like my Challenger andother light aircraft designs use. I don't think a couple of rivet holes in oneside for 5/32" rivets would weaken them much at all. if I use the wraps I'm thinkingI should use some type of tape to protect from corrosion between the aluminumand steel.probably some polyethylene tape like i have used on naturalgas pipe buried underground. any thoughts here as to what might work better? ifI did the tab I'd make it from 4130 strap with several coats of aircraft primeron the surface between the aluminum but it would still be steel against aluminum.RaymondRead this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... ______Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:21:45 -0500 (GMT-05:00)