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jury struts
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2021 4:16 pm
by blinding speed
Getting started on the jury struts, was planning to use 3/4" .049 tubing on hand, but it seems a bit heavy. Considering 1/2" or 5/8" .035 tubing instead. Would appreciate any advice you might have. Buddy Linder
Re: jury struts
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2021 10:31 pm
by taildrags
Buddy; here you have one of the flagship Air Campers in the fleet... Mike Cuy's beautiful airplane. See if you can tell what size tubing his jury struts are, but they sure don't look anything like 3/4"!
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
Air Camper NX41CC, A75 power
Re: jury struts
Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2021 10:25 am
by taildrags
I'll be at the hangar sometime today and will put the calipers on the jury struts on 41CC to at least get you the OD of mine.
-Oscar
Re: jury struts
Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2021 11:18 am
by blinding speed
Thank you. Buddy
Re: jury struts
Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2021 2:27 pm
by taildrags
Just checked the jury struts on my airplane (which I didn't build). The verticals are 1/2" OD steel tubing, while the horizontal connector between the verticals is 3/8" OD.
-Oscar
Re: jury struts
Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2021 11:19 am
by Richard Roller
N34KP's jury struts are 3/8" x 9/16" steel streamlined tubes. I don't know where Ken found them. He told me once he'd bought them 20 years, or so, ago when he was buying stuff for his Great Lakes project.
A.E.D. metal products have odd size and small streamlined tubes in different materials.
https://www.aedmotorsport.com/store/mat ... streamline
Re: jury struts
Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2021 1:18 pm
by KenBickers
I'm using streamlined aluminum for my jury struts. The aluminum was purchased, along with larger streamlined aluminum for the diagonal struts, from Carlson's. The jury struts are approx. 1 1/8" by 3/8". The horizontal spreader strut is round aluminum 0.5" dia x 0.060 wall thickness. Cheers, Ken