REFLECTOR:Incident/crash

[Alexander Balic]

Jack,
well. no picture at the moment, but basically I have (3) 4x4 posts with a
bottle jack affixed to the top of each - 2 tall ones for under the wings,
and a short one for under the canard bulkhead.  on top of each jack, I have
a 8" long piece of 2x4 carpet covered, with a small depression on the
opposite center to take the tip of the jack, I affixed the jacks to the tops
of the 4x4 with micro glass, and the same with the pads to the tops of the
jacks.  to stabilize each one, cut 4 large right triangles (18" x 18" x
whatever the diagonal is for that size triangle) and then just screw and
glue the triangles to the sides of the 4x4 end opposite the jack- so it
looks like a little missile- they are then adjusted with the acme screw on
each bottle jack, so all you have to do is drive the aircraft over then with
about 1" clearance, push the nose jack under from the side, and lift the
plane up- takes about 3 minutes to get all 3 jacks up, and about 45 seconds
to get them down, and you never have to move the 2 wing jacks..... if my
description is confusing, I will take a picture of them in a few days, just
let me know. I bought the jacks at Wal-Mart for 9.98 each, and I had the
wood laying around, so I have 3 jacks for about $30 -

Alex

-----Original Message-----
From: reflector-admin@tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-admin@tvbf.org]On
Behalf Of Jack Sheehan
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 9:57 AM
To: reflector@tvbf.org
Subject: RE: REFLECTOR:Incident/crash


Alex,
You mentioned that you copied his aircraft jacks??? Do you have an
explanation or drawing for the jacks
Thanks
Jack N55XL
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