It also may have come from Ken Knowles or Phil Tucker ?
RB
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| Author: | hurant [ Wed Nov 23, 2011 4:43 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Heat Treating |
I used Hinderliter Heat Treating, 2005 Montgomery Street, Fort Worth, Texas 76107-4012. Phone: 817-737-6651. This was back in 1996 for three individual gear legs, heat treated and stress relieved for $333.53. I made them in two parts with a plate slightly larger diameter in the center of the "A" to be welded together later without affecting the heat treating. I didn't have a hydraulic press so I used a hydraulic jack and heavy chain to straighten out the heat treatment distortion, bow and arrow style. |
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| Author: | SHIPCHIEF [ Sat Jan 28, 2012 7:23 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Heat Treating |
Is there any way to tell if the gear has or has not been heat treated on a completed aircraft? I have just had my second "initial interview" this time an S-18. While going thru the accumulated paperwork, and looking over the aircraft for the first time, it would be nice to check the gear. Should a file just slide along the material, if heat treated? Whereas non heat treated the file would start to bite? Or is that too general? Not all builders kept a construction journal, so it can be hard to tell some details. |
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| Author: | dan [ Sat Jan 28, 2012 10:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Heat Treating |
Is there a receipt for the gear for Classic sport or Brock? Or did the builder build the gear? The better part of the time the Gear is purchased or bartered. Just curious....Dan |
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| Author: | Rich Brazell [ Sat Jan 28, 2012 11:33 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Heat Treating |
It also may have come from Ken Knowles or Phil Tucker ? RB |
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| Author: | SHIPCHIEF [ Sun Jan 29, 2012 10:40 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Heat Treating |
Actually, when my wife and I flew into the local airport to meet the sellers and get a ride out to the house where the S-18 is kept, there was a miscommunication, so we had some time on our hands. A nice 'Quiet Birdman' was sitting there in the club house, so I asked him if he knew the builder, which he knew. Then he offered that he had done all the welding. A ride then appeared, in the form of another friend of the deceased builder and his family. A good summary of the builder, the aircraft and history accompanied the ride. |
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