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Are the bolt on float fittings for a supercub the same as a J-3?
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Will look around Tom. Did have a while back, but they might be gone. They look very much like the weld on ones we have today except maybe a little thinner. Built from flat steel with a tab welded on for the strut. The originals that I had for the 1320's and 1400 had the EDO numbers stamped on them. Built some 40 yrs ago; easy to build, if you have a pair to copy. Assume you need EDO ones?
J-3 bolt on
The supercub weld on has a block that goes in, I’m assuming so one fitting can be used on older edo and newer floats where as the super cub bolt on only works with the newer struts"
Probably not so much old floats versus new floats, but rather what the struts are made of; extruded strut material or bolted/riveted strut (as shown in the photo with weld-on fitting). I've not seen that round attachment in the riveted strut. I have one set of struts with flat stock riveted in that fit onto the bolt-on fitting or the weld-on fitting using a small "block" that comes with the weld-on fitting. I suspect there's a lot of variation. The J-3 fittings shown in the photos look very different from what I've seen used on Super Cubs. But I really haven't seen that many of the smaller EDO floats or the rigging used on them.
Note that around 2000 when I was putting my Super Cub on floats and looking for the bolt-on fittings, the fittings themselves were each about $800 new, the "angle bolts" used in the outer holes shown were $147 each, with each fitting requiring 2. The smaller "U" bolts were only about $120 (2 per fitting). Fortunately I was able to find a used set of fittings complete with bolts at Stoddards for $400 total. Since then I've had weld-on fitting installed
Jim