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Whats in YOUR toolbox?
Just got my first sailplane...what kind of tools do
you carry everytime you go to the airfield to fly? Whats in your toolbox? Beach |
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Whats in YOUR toolbox?
A small sledge hammer.
Useful to adjust the perfomance of your competitor's airfoil or help drive in tie-down stakes. You should have a tiedown kit with straps, ropes and a hammer etc. Even if you don't plan to tie it out, there is always a chance of a fast developing storm that approaches before you can find 2 other guys that aren't trying to disassmeble their gliders before the gusts hit. Also in the trailer be sure you have fuses lug wrench for the trailer not bad to have spare glider tubes Chris |
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Whats in your toolbox? Add an LED headlamp and flashlight. Mine came in very handy a few weeks ago out at the Wray, Colorado airport, as the light over the gas pump kept turning off and on. Gunnar |
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Whats in YOUR toolbox?
When I was campaigning the HP-11, I carried in the glider:
1/4" drive socket set, 1/4" through 9/16" Medium-sized flat-blade screwdriver Sharp #2 Phillips screwdriver (these get dull faster than you think) 2 feet of .041" safety wire Wrenches 3/8" and 1/4", box+open ended Two allen wrenches (for flap handle and instrument panel removal, don't remember the sizes) Tube of lithium grease In the car or trailer, I'd usually carry: Full 3/8" socket set 14-volt battery drill Honkin' huge Crescent wrench for O2 and such Fiber mallet Pop riveter with several sizes of Monel pop rivets Volt/Ohm meter Crimp terminal kit with lots of red-size terminals Lots of tie-wraps Lots of wire, 22awg through 18awg Various AN3 and AN4 bolts and AN395 nuts A pint or so of epoxy |
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Whats in YOUR toolbox?
Travis Beach wrote:
Just got my first sailplane...what kind of tools do you carry everytime you go to the airfield to fly? Whats in your toolbox? Only 2 items - a can of WD-40 and a roll of duct tape. If something moves and shouldn't, use the duct tape. If some thing doesn't move and should, use the WD-40. Tony V. :-) :-) |
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Whats in YOUR toolbox?
Tony Verhulst wrote:
Travis Beach wrote: Just got my first sailplane...what kind of tools do you carry everytime you go to the airfield to fly? Whats in your toolbox? Only 2 items - a can of WD-40 and a roll of duct tape. If something moves and shouldn't, use the duct tape. If some thing doesn't move and should, use the WD-40. WD-40 does dry out and get sticky as time passes. This can affect delicate mechanical bits. In the model plane game we've found that spraying a clockwork timer with WD-40 to wash out grit, e.g. after the model d/ts on a ploughed field, is fine for the rest of the day. However, the timer is likely to be unreliable after enough time has passed for the WD-40's solvent to evaporate. I'm not sure how relevant this is to general glider maintenance, but it would pay to be careful what you use WD-40 on and/or carefully clean it off once the part is unfrozen. Then lube carefully with the correct lubricant. Never let the stuff near your instrument panel. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org | |
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Whats in YOUR toolbox?
http://www.lpslabs.com/Products/Lubricants/LPS1.asp
This is what my mechanic uses and recomends...I see it in a lot of hangars. |
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The only use I have for WD-40 is as a solvent. It works well to clean
the belly of my towplane. For light lube I use LP products and "Aero Kroil". "Boeshield" spray for the long term lube. "Flamingo Grease" for the long term - it is a Florida distributed boat trailer wheel bearing grease that doesn't harden - and it is flamingo pink. I have a supply of large ZipLoc type bags for keeping pins and essential parts together. In my Blanik toolbox I carry a couple of wooden dowels - actually used drum sticks - size 5B with the tips cut off. Pro-Mark brand was my preference in my professional days for the dense white oak - perfect for encouraging stuck pins if you haven't been greasing them properly. I also carry the same plastic hammer Fritz Compton used in the 1950's on his Laister Kauffman LK-10A sailplane wing pins. A family heirloom - mostly for luck! A vintage tool in your toolbox is good. Burt Compton Marfa, west Texas USA Stewart Kissel wrote: http://www.lpslabs.com/Products/Lubricants/LPS1.asp This is what my mechanic uses and recomends...I see it in a lot of hangars. |
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Whats in YOUR toolbox?
For cleaning the belly of the tow plane, try the original Go-Jo hand cleaner
(not the version with pumice!!). It works amazingly well at removing grease and oil as well as the harder to remove 100LL exhaust stains. Wipe on my hand or rag, wipe off. (I have tested Go-Jo for compatibility with bare aluminum by immersing aluminum strips for several weeks - - no problems detected.) WD-40 does a good job removing road tar and works acceptably well as a coolant when drilling steel. I still buy and use it even thought there are more appropriate things for both tasks. WD-40 sure is not a good long-term corrosion preventative - - in fact, I suspect that if anything it does the opposite. It is also not a good lubricant, though it can help unstick things if you don't have a better penetrating lubricant handy. For a good spray-on lube, try Super Lube spray by Synco http://www.super-lube.com/. They also make an excellent synthetic grease with a broad temperature range that works great for wing pins etc. Super Lube Gel or Grease. all the best, bumper "Burt Compton - Marfa" wrote in message oups.com... The only use I have for WD-40 is as a solvent. It works well to clean the belly of my towplane. For light lube I use LP products and "Aero Kroil". "Boeshield" spray for the long term lube. "Flamingo Grease" for the long term - it is a Florida distributed boat trailer wheel bearing grease that doesn't harden - and it is flamingo pink. I have a supply of large ZipLoc type bags for keeping pins and essential parts together. In my Blanik toolbox I carry a couple of wooden dowels - actually used drum sticks - size 5B with the tips cut off. Pro-Mark brand was my preference in my professional days for the dense white oak - perfect for encouraging stuck pins if you haven't been greasing them properly. I also carry the same plastic hammer Fritz Compton used in the 1950's on his Laister Kauffman LK-10A sailplane wing pins. A family heirloom - mostly for luck! A vintage tool in your toolbox is good. Burt Compton Marfa, west Texas USA Stewart Kissel wrote: http://www.lpslabs.com/Products/Lubricants/LPS1.asp This is what my mechanic uses and recomends...I see it in a lot of hangars. |
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