Suggestions for supporting wing with struts removed for repainting
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Cub Builder
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North Central AR
Simple wooden wing jacks.
Also pretty awesome for removing and hanging wings so you don't have people squirming around holding them wanting you to hurry. Just get a couple of geezers to help set the wings on the jacks, then run them up into place, position and bolt them up easily by yourself at your own pace.
They have 3' threaded rods, double nutted on the top so I can run them up and down with my drill or air ratchet. Some 2x4s, a little plywood or waferboard, and a couple of threaded rods held together with drywall screws. Simple and inexpensive.
-Cub Builder
Also pretty awesome for removing and hanging wings so you don't have people squirming around holding them wanting you to hurry. Just get a couple of geezers to help set the wings on the jacks, then run them up into place, position and bolt them up easily by yourself at your own pace.
They have 3' threaded rods, double nutted on the top so I can run them up and down with my drill or air ratchet. Some 2x4s, a little plywood or waferboard, and a couple of threaded rods held together with drywall screws. Simple and inexpensive.
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bob turner
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Hot setup!
I use an engine hoist with a padded board. If I am doing landing gear work I have a crotch support, but that is useless without struts. And I agree - keep a set of unsealed struts around if you do much strut painting.
I use an engine hoist with a padded board. If I am doing landing gear work I have a crotch support, but that is useless without struts. And I agree - keep a set of unsealed struts around if you do much strut painting.
hotrod180
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Port Townsend, WA
I helped a friend remove the struts on his C182 for painting.
He built quite a lash-up to hold the wings up--
a couple 2x4's on the floor across the front of the wheels,
spliced together to span from strut attach to strut attach.
Then 2x4 chocks behind the wheels, with 2x4's on each side of each wheel fastened fore and aft.
Then vertical 2x4's cut to length to support the wings, wired to the wing at the top,
and fastened to the long 2x4s on the floor.
Plus some 2x4 sway bracing fore-and-aft as well as side-to-side.
It seemed like overkill at first,
until he explained that it was to prevent hangar visitors from stumbling over something
and accidently causing a catastrophic failure of something less elaborate.
It made a whole lotta sense then.
He built quite a lash-up to hold the wings up--
a couple 2x4's on the floor across the front of the wheels,
spliced together to span from strut attach to strut attach.
Then 2x4 chocks behind the wheels, with 2x4's on each side of each wheel fastened fore and aft.
Then vertical 2x4's cut to length to support the wings, wired to the wing at the top,
and fastened to the long 2x4s on the floor.
Plus some 2x4 sway bracing fore-and-aft as well as side-to-side.
It seemed like overkill at first,
until he explained that it was to prevent hangar visitors from stumbling over something
and accidently causing a catastrophic failure of something less elaborate.
It made a whole lotta sense then.
