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Bob,

Thanks for the info....I'll check them out at the local Home Depot to see
what you are talking about.  I've got no fear that my jack points will be
sufficient.  The lay right under the close out rib and are bonded to the
load transfer pad...so I'm sure that there is plenty of beef there to hold
the plane.

Curtis Krouse
N753K

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Chesley <rchesley@soca.com>
To: Curtis Krouse <ckrouse@worldnet.att.net>; lancair.list@olsusa.com
<lancair.list@olsusa.com>
Date: Friday, June 25, 1999 9:37 AM
Subject: Re: aircraft jacks


>Curtis,
>    A welder angle iron stand for the bottle jacks has a weight advantage.
>However, I have my jacks strapped to the angled cement blocks the Home
Depot
>sells.  They are heavy, but make a very solid platform for the jacks, and
are
>very inexpensive.
>    Also... I found that the jack points, as described in the manual, were
not
>sufficiently reinforced.  I use a padded 2 x 4 between the two jacks.  The
2 x
>4 is just shorter than the distance between the inside gear doors and is
placed
>just aft of the nose gear door.
>
>Bob Chesley
>L-320 - N4YH
>Ojai, CA
>
>
>

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