Have you created anything "home-made" for your plane? (or a low cost alternative?)

("john smith" wrote)
Do you use grass airstrips? Are you going to AirVenture?
Cut three 1-foot x 1-foot squares of marine plywood (not particle board)
of one-inch thickness. Stop just short of where you park the airplane.
Climb out, pull out the boards, place them ahead of each wheel. With
help, pull the airplanes wheels onto the plywood. When you are ready to
leave, pull the airplane off the plywood and stow them away for the next
use. This prevents yours wheels form sinking into the ground and
requiring high engine power to pull the airplane free from the ruts.
Montblanc may be selling them at the R.A.P gathering this summer at
AirVenture.


1-ft x 1-ft square was found to be somewhat ...ungood. I would recommend at
least 1-ft x 18 inches.

I'll have to start saving scraps of plywood. For long term use, marine
plyw$$d is great! For one week at OSH ...we'll see what I find.

Cost? Free.


Montblack

I'll have to start saving scraps of plywood. For long term use, marine
plyw$$d is great! For one week at OSH ...we'll see what I find.

Cost? Free.


Montblack
Dibs on the first pair! Um...along with assorted camping gear. No
lumpy pillows please? Does the plywood come with N-numbers stenciled
on? In matching colors? Remember, no lumpy pillows. :-)


--
Jack Allison
PP-ASEL-Instrument Airplane
Arrow N2104T

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth
with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there
you will always long to return"
- Leonardo Da Vinci

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I'll have to start saving scraps of plywood. For long term use, marine
plyw$$d is great! For one week at OSH ...we'll see what I find.

Dibs on the first pair! Um...along with assorted camping gear. No
lumpy pillows please? Does the plywood come with N-numbers stenciled
on? In matching colors? Remember, no lumpy pillows. :-)

Us too, us too!

Well, skip the pillows -- those we've got. But plywood is something
you could sell in the North 40 for a tidy little profit... EVERYONE
forgets to bring it.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

("Jack Allison" wrote)
Dibs on the first pair! Um...along with assorted camping gear. No lumpy
pillows please? Does the plywood come with N-numbers stenciled on? In
matching colors? Remember, no lumpy pillows. :-)


First set (Beta!!) goes to Jack.

By 2.0 we'll have figured out it's a good thing to pound down the nails in
the old pallets. By 3.0 we'll have figured out not to use old pallets. :-)

I'm heading down to the theater shop on Monday. I've called dibbs on all of
the 18" stock. 2x4, 2x6, 2x8, plywood, etc. All the leftover pieces.


Montblack
Camping gear is a go.

Hey guys, take a piece of cardboard big enough to cover the bottom of your
baggage compartment and make a stencil of the floor. Then design your
plywood pieces to cover the floor of the baggage compartment completely and
snuggly. If you want to get fancy, rabbit joint the edges so they lay on
top of each other. It'll make a great support platform for the baggage and
spread the load out over the entire floor area.

When we pulled the floor out of the rear baggage compartment of our Aztec,
we found two support stringers that were broken at the ends (where they
rivet to the side stringers). That piece of plywood is now a permanent
member of our W&B, in fact, I even upholstered it and it blends right in.

Jim

"Montblack" wrote in message
...
("john smith" wrote)
Do you use grass airstrips? Are you going to AirVenture?
Cut three 1-foot x 1-foot squares of marine plywood (not particle board)
of one-inch thickness. Stop just short of where you park the airplane.
Climb out, pull out the boards, place them ahead of each wheel. With
help, pull the airplanes wheels onto the plywood. When you are ready to
leave, pull the airplane off the plywood and stow them away for the next
use. This prevents yours wheels form sinking into the ground and
requiring high engine power to pull the airplane free from the ruts.
Montblanc may be selling them at the R.A.P gathering this summer at
AirVenture.


1-ft x 1-ft square was found to be somewhat ...ungood. I would recommend
at
least 1-ft x 18 inches.

I'll have to start saving scraps of plywood. For long term use, marine
plyw$$d is great! For one week at OSH ...we'll see what I find.

Cost? Free.


Montblack

("Jim Burns" wrote)
[snip]
Hey guys, take a piece of cardboard big enough to cover the bottom of your
baggage compartment and make a stencil of the floor. Then design your
plywood pieces to cover the floor of the baggage compartment completely
and snuggly.


I've got a 4x8 sheet of 3/4 plywood back there now. :-)


Montblack
OMG ...at (1-ft x 1-ft) that's 32 squares. Hey guys, it's not funny anymore.
Put
down those saws and back away from the minivan before someone gets hurt.

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"Montblack" wrote:

OMG ...at (1-ft x 1-ft) that's 32 squares. Hey guys, it's not funny anymore.

And you need 33 pieces for 11 tricycle gear airplanes.
Now what are you going to do???