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Wow! Very impressive! Nice work!

Reminds me of a past professor that demonstrated the paperclip vs. tie-clip analogy.

I'll take one Sent you a PM

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Thanks!Much appreciated!

Awesome work!

Thanks Drew and Kent! It's gonna be hard to tell folks I used a precise, delicate tool, such as a sledgehammer on the plane. But it looks like it's the safe way to go. BTW kent, is there a CP reference for steel extrusions? Hey maybe the Cozy Girrrls might find these extrusions worthwhile to manufacture. Thanks so much for the advice.

I was afraid of this.

Fellow canardians, I am relocating my ship's brake master cylinders and installing them behind Dale Martin's rudder pedals. I am also upgrading the ship's engine to an IO-320. The Long EZ plans call for the original plans brake cylinders to be connected between the aluminum engine mounts on the firewall. The lower mount carried the end of the brake master cylinder through a bracket-CS73, while the top anchored a lever-bellcrank, which converted brake pedal motion into a "push" on the brake cylinder actuator. Doing this mod on my Long-EZ, leaves an unused 3/16" hole in the aluminum "L" angle extrusions at (as a bonafide COZY mk.4 builder flyer suggests) near their point of max bending - not a desirable trait in an engine mount. Has anyone ever heard of a fix to get rid of this hole without doing major surgery on the extrusions, essentially replacing them? Filling the hole with a weld will probably conduct heat to the nearby spar and anneal the aluminum mount. Reinforcing it with an attached piece of aluminum relies too heavily of the attachment method of the reinforcement piece - epoxy? rivets? (more holes). My instinct says reattach the "old plans" bracket, without its associated brake master cylinder with its "old" countersunk screw. Any ideas welcome.

Oh yeah, that's alot of work! Been there done that!

Clones! :) :)

Not so fast buying stuff outta wrecked planes. I got a deal out of a LE that wrecked a few years ago, seller was an honest fellow, and warned me upfront ( I thought I could fix it myself ). Sent it back to Jack, there wasn't a straight piece left on the assembly (that was before I tried to fix anything), I essentially got to use it as a rough core. Saved a couple hundred bucks after all was fixed and or replaced over a new one. Go new.

Those are fantastic. Nice work! Imagine wing jigs that would look like that!

Exactly, well said, that's what my wife and I plan on doing with our ship down here in Florida.

GOTSL Got slow UNOIT You know it Paraphrasing the NTSB, A jetstream crew stalled in IMC over the FAF and ended up just east of Runway. January of 1994 You gotta stay on top of your game if you're gonna fly in the goo. Single pilot IMC is tough, not being proficient is asking for trouble. The people I know, fly the LEZ because its relatively inexpensive, tack on the required practice to stay current in IMC, and you're looking at added expense.