Installing new floor board stinks.

Alex Clark

Registered User

Life Long Alaskan

• May 26, 2005

• #1

I am just about finished with the new forward floor board for the PA-11.

Talk about a big pain in the butt!!!!. I can see why lots of PA-18 boot cowls are different than the old style. At least you can get to the bottom nuts that way. Mine was all riveted and seamed. Plus the PA-11 tubing is NOT the same as a PA-18. It does not have tubes were you would think they would be.... So now I have two new 3 inch inspection holes that need reenforcement rings and covers.
Will the madness never end???

 

Aviator

Registered User

Canada (Legally)

• May 26, 2005

• #2

Alex Clark said:

...Will the madness never end???

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Nay, it never ends. I had half the fun just changing the rudder pedal return springs.

Hang in there!

 

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Scruffdog

Registered User

WOODLAND, CA

• May 27, 2005

• #3

Another "I'm going to kill that ^&$^#$@@# engineer when I catch him",...job!

 

Torch

GONE WEST

Fairbanks, Alaska

• May 27, 2005

• #4

Alex,

Like I tell everyone and I don't know as this has anything to do with Alaska but nothing is every as easy as it should be up here. Things always seem to take more time and effort than one would plan for. Good luck.

 

jaypratt

FOUNDER

Fort Worth, TX

• May 27, 2005

• #5

Build Time

Alex,

Here at RV Central, we have a saying "RV Minutes" a twenty minute job takes 2.5 hours.
We have completed more than 20 + RVs and one North Star/ S Cub.
Boy, where does that time go??

 

PA-10

Registered User

Jacksonville, Fla.

• May 28, 2005

• #6

"I'm going to kill that ^&$^#$@@# engineer when I c

I've always suspected that the concepts of engineering and Cubs are mutually exclusive. Who in their right mind would have set out to design an airplane (J-3) where you have to sit in the back seat to fly it solo? I think it just sort of turned out that way, and the government in its infinite wisdom certificated it anyway.

 

Alex Clark

Registered User

Life Long Alaskan

• May 29, 2005

• #7

Getting the rudder pedal springs in there with only a 3 inch inspection port to work though really stinks. Especially since the inspection port is under the brake pedals and not the rudder pedal area....

Trying to hold the pedal in place, hold the U-clamp, and hold the washer and nut, while not pushing the bolt back upwards, ......in the rain, with bugs crawling all over.....made me say really bad words....

 

Steve Pierce

BENEFACTOR

Graham, TX

• May 30, 2005

• #8

Sounds like a job for a Snap On Mouse. That was the running joke at the shop I used to work in. When you couldn't get to some bolt or some impossible rivet to buck you would ask the other guys for the Snap On Mouse. :lol:

 

PA-10

Registered User

Jacksonville, Fla.

• May 30, 2005

• #9

Human beings don't have the proper number of elbows and our arms are not long enough to do aircraft maintenance.