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Hangar Flying / Task Strakes
« on: May 23, 2010, 01:44:21 PM »
I am working on my Long Ez project, currently working on the wings/winglet installation. Things are going well. In the near future I will be working on the strakes. When I bought the project from the previous builder, it came with a set of task strakes. I have heard of problems with these strakes. Some issues with them being laid up too dry and being prone to leaks. Has anyone heard of or had similar problems? My questions are two fold.

1) Being a new construction, should I go with these task strakes, or should I build my own?
2) Has anyone come up with a simple, light, and effective way of installing these strakes that eliminates this problem?

I have thought of many ideas including laying up new plies of bid on the interior surfaces fairly wet in order to seal them. Also applying a fuel tank sealer similar to what the lancair/glasair uses. Or just simply build the per plans strakes.

Im trying to decide how best/most efficiently to build the strakes, any ideas appreciated.

Joe

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Hangar Flying / Nose Gear Mounting
« on: April 14, 2010, 08:01:11 AM »
Hello Everyone - I am new to this forum and have building my Long Ez for about 2.5 years. I am in the St. Paul, MN area. I bought a partially completed project from a previous builder. I have been working on the fuselage and nose section lately. (Fuselage is mostly done, wings and roncz canard done, landing gear mounted. Soon to mount wings, cs spar, and canard to fuselage, then on to strakes and canopy) Anyways, I was working yesterday on preparing to bond the nose tire cover in the fuselage so I temporarily reinstalled the nose strut and tire to check fit, and noticed a couple of things. BTW I have the wilhelmson noselift installed.

1) when the nose gear retracts it very lightly touches the instrument panel. I may be able to slip a piece of paper in between the nose tire and instrument panel, but it would drag on the nose tire. Is this normal? It seems to me with this little clearance there is possibility of getting the tire jammed on the instrument panel. Anyone have any idea how much clearance they have between their tire and instrument panel?

2) The nose gear strut seems to be mounted vertically to the fuselage, but when the tire is down to approximately the down position, the tire seems to be out of vertical by a few degrees. It is noticeable visually, and I havn't measured it. For tire wear and ground steering this concerns me. Obviously I should be shooting for completely vertical on the nose tire, but what should be considered acceptable since the casting is currently already floxed to the end of the nose gear strut.

Any thoughts or suggestions are appreciated.

Joe

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