From: tbyrnes54@att.net
To: lancair.list@olsusa.com
Subject: Re: hand hydraulic pump for IV-P
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:55:47 +0000
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I built my gear door sliders and stuff with the fuselage 
right side up, without the top on and before the main 
gear cover was installed.  I put a piece of pipe across 
the fuselage with wood blocks as pivots.  The pipe was 
just galvanized pipe with the threaded ends.  On one end 
I made a crank handle with pieces of threaded pipe and 
elbows.  I used rope from the wheel to the pipe and 
wrapped the rope around the pipe several turns.  I made 
two stops for the crank handle so that I could hold the 
pipe in half turn increments.  With this mechanism, I 
was able to raise and lower the main gear 1 half of a 
turn at a time and hold it in any position that I 
wanted.  I was working alone and it worked very well for 
me.

Tom Byrnes (6 months to go)
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