mfryer

Great Idea Rick;

Now eat your heart out I have a milling machine with a digital readout. Guess how I drilled my holes??? Steve build on

But I imagine his wood jig cost a little less.....

I've always held that the first sign of age is when you're not willing to try something new..

Couldn't agree with you more.

Recently I have worked a little more on the canopy frame and some work around the nose. I have also nearly finished the rudder pedals.

Not pretty, but I think they should work out ok. Im not super proud of them, but I think they are all right considering they are the first parts I have welded myself.

I still need to work out some sort of attachement for the master cylinders. Some recent posts by others have given me some good information, however if anyone has some additional ideas on front mounted master cylinders I would appreciate the input.

as usual, more and larger images at:

http://www.flyingbackward.blogspot.com/

oops duplicate post.

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1) www.smalparts.com has quite a selection of 'stuff', including various mesh screens for the strake -> sump.

 

Rick

Did you mean www.smallparts.com?

This is an idea for brakes that I stole (and modified a bit) from Steve Velovsek's beautiful EZ. A very simple and light idea. Thanks Steve.

 

Well since you all seem to be stealing. I may just steal that idea too...

Can you provide a few of the criticle measurements for the pedal to break hardware?

One additional observation: I cannot quite tell from your rudder pedal photos, but it appears that you have not reinforced the rudder cable attachement tab as called for in CP #30. Of course this is probably not as critical being that your master cylinders are mounted in front of the pedals.

I purchased CNC canard cores and was very happen with them. However afte helping Steve cut one of his wings, I now understand how EZ is was. I doubt I will purchase CNC wings for my project now.

Steve had the cores preped and the templates were ready. With those steps, completed I think we had a wing and winglet cut in under 2 hours.

you get the spendy rod to go with that 4130 ? like metals weld better and crack less.

Yes, I purchased some filler rod from ACS. I do want to do this right. I suppose hiring the job out would be the right way to go, but the whole idea of building the plane for me is to pick up a skill or two allong the way.

Coat hangers, maybie, for practice, but I have plenty of filler rod to last a while.

Cool - I'd grab some mild steel from Capitol Industrial (its pretty cheap right now) and some steel welding rod or even coat hanger and practice welding.

 

It won't be too long before you're good at it.

Will do, good idea to do more practice on cheap stuff first. I burned through my first order of 4130 tubing practicing on the bigger tip.

I have more 4130 now, and its tempting to start working with it.

#0 tip came arrived yesterday and I managed to make a couple good welds. Not pretty, but the weld penetrated withough burning through. Tried what I could to break the parts appart and the welds and they held pretty good..

More practice and I will try to make up a rudder pedal.

Haha, yes I am new. It's a nice looking design, is it no good?

What they are trying to tell you is that the plane does not exist and probably never will.

All to often we see great looking designs, drawing, renderings and but never an actual working prototype.

Hey Martin - if your mickey mouse torches don't work out I've got a real set you can use.

 

Marc

Well the mickey mouse setup seems to work ok, however even with the little practice I have done, I don't.

I have ordered a smaller size nozzle to see if that helps.

Do you have any experience with gass welding? If so and if you have some timer perhaps you can tell me what I am doing wrong.

From a couple years back, this is proof that my cone IS movable...

 

MY cone DOES look snarky in a Cozy.

You may need some more canopy mods to fit your cone.

Not only can it be stored but you can fill it enroute if you deplane a passenger.

 

(also may come in handy for CG shifting on long flights)[forward shift of liquid weight for those of you not awake yet]

And also what would happen if your system leaked?

You don't need to worry about the push-pull controls as you won't have a center section spar in this design (or so it appears.....to me!) No way to install it.

???

The Long-EZ plans call for the fire wall to be glassed to the fuselage way early in construction and the center section spar to be slid in from the side. However as many folks have ponted out the installation is much easier if the firewall installation is completed after the center spar is installed.

Picture was to big I'll try again

Perfect. Thanks!

The push pull cables where used on the ailerons. I tried the cables on the ailerons on mine but did not use them. to much slop . Mine does have the plans rudder cable but with a pulley replacing the bellcrank. the bell crank is only needed for the firewall mounted brakes. the pulleys used are metal to help prevent it from melting in case of a fire. the cable is one piece all the way to the connection of the wing cable. the wing cable is one piece as per the plans.

Lynn, do you have a photo of that pulley setup? Is it really just as simple as replaceing the bellcrank with a pully (and proper safeting)?

Over the last month, between Arlington, checking out Steve Parkins Cozy project and other things, I have have nearly completed construction of the canopy (not counting hinging and latch hardware, etc.)

Wow, so much more time consuming than I would have thought. I suppose I should be getting used to the fact that everything really takes two to three times as long as the plans say, or what I should expect, which ever is greater.

The nose is also nearly done, I have just completed cutting out the nose access hatch and finished the 4 ply canard attachment renenforcement layups.

I also have picked up a mickey mouse oxy/acetylene setup and practiced some welding in preparation for fabrication of the rudder pedals. All I will say is that much more practice is in order.

Of course more photos and discussion at:

http://www.flyingbackward.blogspot.com/

Marc Zeitlin has been kind enough to post them on his Cozy site:

http://www.cozybuilders.org/Canard_Pusher/

Whats up with that Vert stabilizer in the background? It looks mighty skinny. [?]

Steve, does it look skinny because you have removed the forward portion to lay up a shear web into the vertical stab?

Facilities planner (comercial property/construction management and interior design).

Arnold,

 

The TERF CD's are available on eBay with a reserve price of $150 (so I'm told). Hope this helps.

 

Tom.

Buy it now price is $220. Perhaps you can win the bid chearper though.

The CDs also contain all of the canard pusher newsletters (also available elsewhere).

All in all I think they would be a good investment.

All of the plans are available on the RAF encyclopedia (TERF-CD). The only problem is that they are not to scale. There are however ways to scale the drawings.

Also it appears that it may be very difficult to intall/remove the strut due to the tubing just under the strut.

i wish you could be here to see the fruits of your labor:D

the first wing i did spent a month in the jig with nothing but cursing and thumb nail biting.

your wing cuts are already coming out of the jig today.

Evey were i go on the wing in fine all 5 fit gr8.

I'll be starting the blended end i an hour or so.

once again, many thanks

 

PS. if you need a hot saw buddy,this guy can count to 15 with out missing any numbers

My thanks to you Steve for the hot wire training. I guess two years of thinking about it may have prepaired me for the task a little bit.

Anyhow the exersize has given me some confidence with cutting my own wing cores when the time comes.

I think we completed cutting all your left wing and (upper) winglet cores in under 3 hours, not counting your preperations. I never imagined it would be that EZ.