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"Grumman-581" wrote in message ... : "Orval Fairbairn" wrote in message : news : You do, however, have to inspect the cables regularly to make sure that : they are not fraying. Racing driver Mark Martin almost lost his Citation : when the cables broke just after he had wheeled the jet into his hangar. : : In a previous hangar, one of the cables came loose and the door dropped... : Jumped the track and swung inwards... I had my boat parked in from of my : wing and I was crossing behind the boat... It pushed the boat backwards and : the swim platform pinned me against the wall... When they fall, they make a : pretty damn loud sound though... I've decided that if I ever build my own : hangar, I'm going to go with the sliding multi-fold fiberglass panel doors : instead... They are light enough that you don't need a motorized opener, so : they're perfect if you ever lose power and still want to go flying... : They're translucent, so they let a lot of light in also... I watch the cables and they look fine. The latest doors are using nylon straps which looks pretty good... Good point about the power issue. I have wondered what I would do to open the door if the power was out... |
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My hanger has sliding doors. When I arrive at the airport, if one of
my next door hanger neighbors has his doors open I have to wait until he closes one of them to get my plane in / out. On 6 Nov 2006 11:02:08 -0800, "Tater" wrote: just from a non-pilots angle, whats the reason for the hangar doors to be the way they are? I mean the 2 part folding types. Is there some advantage to them? why dont we make car garages the same way? |
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"T o d d P a t t i s t" wrote in message
... My hanger has sliding doors. When I arrive at the airport, if one of my next door hanger neighbors has his doors open I have to wait until he closes one of them to get my plane in / out. I've been in those hangars, but I've also been in the hangars that have vertically folding panels that allow the door to turn a corner and move in along the side of the aircraft on overhead curved tracks. There's not as much free space, but no problem with the neighbors. And of course, some hangars (such as the one my airplane is in) have half-width sliding doors. It's a T-hangar, and the back of the hangar is exactly half the width of the front. When you open the doors, the two halves of the sliding doors come to rest over each other at the back of the opposing T-hangar, avoiding blocking anyone *and* avoiding consuming any space within the hangar. |
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".Blueskies." wrote in message
. .. I watch the cables and they look fine. The latest doors are using nylon straps which looks pretty good... Yeah, the nylon strap systems seem a lot more sturdy than the ones on the hangar I'm renting... My hangar has the electric motor and winch mounted inside the hangar back towards the 'T' and quite a few pullies and cables to make everything hopefully line up right... It creaks and groans during the opening and closing process... The systems with the motor driving a common shaft that runs the width of the door near the bottom of the door seem considerably simplier and less prone to problems... Good point about the power issue. I have wondered what I would do to open the door if the power was out... Well, I have refrigerator in my hangar and it is stocked with beer and Cokes... I think it would be time to switch from drinking Cokes to drinking beer and just wait for the power to come back on... If I was really desperate, I guess I could go get a generator and power the motor and winch... Kind of depends upon whether I was going flying or coming back, I guess... |
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A lot of cable driven systems have limited life because the pulleys and
drums are too small. There should be cable thimbles etc wherever the cable attaches to something to prevent the local forces or motions from crushing or abrading the cable. I have heard of a person being killed by a falling hangar door. |
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Peter Duniho wrote: "Morgans" wrote in message ... Caution, boys and girls. It has been a few months since the last Tater sighting, but if you remember, this one has the characteristic makings of trolldom [...] No, I don't remember. Perhaps you could refresh our collective memory? yep, thats me Checking Google, I found only 19 posts *total* from that individual in this newsgroup. I admit, I did not read every single one, but I skimmed the excerpts in Google, and read about a half-dozen of the ones that seemed most promisingly troll-like, and found nothing that I could classify as trollish behavior. and a few posts on some of the other aviation groups. yes, I admit that my post at times do look trollish, but I suppose that could come from the frustrations of trying to find infor with google (and gettting 1,000,000 results to wade through) Are you sure you've got the right guy? He hasn't started many threads, he doesn't appear to post all that many articles, and what he does post seems just about as relevant as anything the rest of us posts (maybe even more so in some cases ). Just how much of a troll could he possibly be? heh, thanks. My intent is not to troll, but sometimes I get fed up with pilots complaining about the loss of airfields and the dwindling numbers of GA then mention that they spent a kilobuck on upgrading to glass cockpit. I believe Morgan was one of the people who think that only people with lots of money to throw away should be pilots, then gripes that yet another GA airport gets closed down. |
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"Tater" wrote I believe Morgan was one of the people who think that only people with lots of money to throw away should be pilots, then gripes that yet another GA airport gets closed down. Talk about remembering the wrong guy!!! Not me. Not even close. I remembers saying tader shouldn't to one of your posts. Something about wanting to fly in an airplane with a windup rubber-band, or something cheeeeep like that. You whimper about wanting to fly without any money at alllll. -- Jim in NC |
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