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Revision as of 17:38, 3 February 2015

This page will contain your Builder Tips and Tricks. Please share your thoughts on how best to organize this information. I think by aircraft system is probably best, rather than by submitting user, but I'm flexible. Here are some beginning categories.


CLICK THE TEXT, not the picture, to get to the article!!!'

Specific Tips

NACA or Nose Cooler or Heat Mods



Keelseal.jpg

Keel Seal

Cooler blower 001 a.jpg

Nose Heat Control

1naca.jpg

NACA Inlets


Velocity Building 020 143.jpeg

Nose_Oil_Cooling

Rene Heatshield.jpg

Gear Leg Heatshield

NACA-LR.jpg

Updraft to Downdraft Conversion

Cowling Mods



Cowl inlet thumb.jpg

Cowl Inlet Door

Screwless cowl.jpg

Screwless Cowl

Cowling5.jpg

Custom Cowling


Jp plenum 6.jpg

Air Filter Installation

Vent1.jpg

Ground Hot Air Vent



Door Mods



Splitdoor1.jpg

Air Stair/Split Door

N173EX 017.jpg

Really Big Hatch

IMG 8975.JPG

Hendricks door latch


N87br brim.jpg

Forward Hinged Doors

Door latch.jpg

Door Latch Safety

Door pins smooth.jpg

Smoother Door Latch


225px

Door Gas Springs



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Strake or Fuel Mods



VP03EPq.jpg

Fuel Sump Sensor

XLRG strake.jpg

Fuel Strakes

Image003.jpg

Extended_Strake_Elbow






Misc Mods



Draggage.jpg

Draggage Pod

Free track.jpg

Aircraft Tracking

225px

Fixed Gear Fairing Modification


MTprop.jpg

MT Prop Rebuild

Condition inspection.jpg

Condition Inspection

FLIR.jpg

FLIR Forward Looking Infrared










Trim or Control Modifications



MS20271-BS.jpg

Aileron Improvements

Elevator bearing upgrade.jpg

Elevator Bearing

TEFence2.jpg

Trailing Edge Fences


N77ly sidestick.jpg

Side Sticks

Vg.jpg

VG Installation

N2059u3.jpg

Yokes


N2059u3.jpg

Throttle Quadrants

Strong sm 2.jpg

Strong Pitch Trim

Trimbraking.jpg

Elevator Trim Braking Circuit


Tfxtreme4.jpg

Aileron Cable Replacement

Aft aileron.jpg

Preventing Roll Trim Cord Slippage


Aileron balance2.jpg

Aileron Balancing


Trim spring1.jpg

Improved Pitch Trim

Elevator1.jpg

Elevator Balancing

Strainer1.jpg

Adjustable Sparrow Strainer

Shimmy Damping Mods



Nylon nut.jpg

Nylon Belleville Anti-Shimmy

Noselock3.jpg

Mishler Nose Lock

Rene Shimmy Small.JPG

Millin Factory Shimmy Damper


Shimmy1.jpg

Nose Wheel Shimmy Damper



Brake Mods



823414.jpg

SE "Old Style" Brake Parts

Various pad states.jpg

Brake Relining/Pads


Landing Gear Mods



Lg SLM8IY76615BBVZ CoP.jpg

Landing Gear Cylinder Rebuild

Bumper.jpg

Fixed Gear Replacement Bumper

Misler mech doors.jpg

Mishler nose gear


113-1309 IMG.JPG

Main Gear Booties

Wilhelmson 006.jpg

Retractable Nosewheel


Seals.jpg

Retract Pump and Cylinder Rebuild



Franklin Tips



Franklin oil system.jpg

Franklin Oil Bypass

Franklin Split Plenum.jpg

Other Franklin Information







Building Space or Shop or Moving Tips



Wing Supports 3.JPG

1 Man Wing Support

Strakeout.jpg

Move fuselage with Spar installed

Wing-Rack.jpg

Wing & Canard Rack

HT52008-2.jpg

Wing Jacks





General Tips

General Controls Paint Fuselage NACA Ducts Emergency Procedures
Wings Engine Avionics Interiors Test Flying Tow/Tug
Prop Spinner Finishing Landing Gear Electrical Power Nose_Wheel_Shimmy_Dampener

Engine Installations

V8 Engine V6 Engine Subaru Engine Mazda Engine TIO-540 Franklin Engine

Oil Cooler Turning Vanes

Not great pictures but I managed to stick my phone into the nose of the airplane to get pic of each side of the oil duct.

What I did was remove the duct, do a micro fill & sand job on the inside to smooth it up. Mine was really rough and had numerous bumps and edges inside..

Then carve curved matching slots in the two sides of the oil duct. Just thick enough to slide thin aluminum through.

Then cut out aluminum vanes. Each aluminum piece slides through both sides of the duct slots creating turning vanes. Slots are about 1 inch apart. I left tabs on the ends of the vanes that were then folded against the sides of the oil duct. Then a few layers of bid over the tabs and sides of the duct to seal the slots to the vanes and restore the oil ducts strength.

The shiny squares you see in the pic are the aluminum tabs

Scott

Toe Brakes

We've retrofitted our XL to use the toe-brake option from the factory. We will eventually add the cast aluminum pedals, but currently have the two separate pedals on both sides. The pilot side master cylinders go to the brakes on the lower end, and the tops go to teh copilot lower master cylinder connections, and the copilot upper connections run to the new resevoir. Note also that the new system requires Mil-Spec 5606 fluid (like the retracts use in the hydraulics).
Installation Instructions


Construction