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Re: Scott's Sonex #1629 - Progress

Postby Bryan Cotton » Sat Dec 19, 2015 1:04 pm

Hey Scott, you made my day!
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Re: Scott's Sonex #1629 - Progress

Postby SonexN76ET » Sat Dec 19, 2015 3:02 pm

Scott,

Fabulous news! You made my day too! Welcome back!

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Re: Scott's Sonex #1629 - Progress

Postby Rynoth » Sat Dec 19, 2015 3:06 pm

Awesome Scott! You gave me time to catch back up, we may yet finish at similar times.
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Re: Scott's Sonex #1629 - Progress

Postby DCASonex » Sun Dec 20, 2015 11:15 am

Sounds like a plan. If that close to completion it would have forever bugged you to not have finished it.

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Re: Scott's Sonex #1629 - Progress

Postby Gripdana » Thu Dec 24, 2015 2:51 pm

The plane looks great. I missed your post about taking a hiatus. I am glad to hear you are going to complete the project. I hope to make it to Airventure 2016. It would be cool to see you and your plane there! I can't wait to hear about the first flight.
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Re: Scott's Sonex #1629 - Progress

Postby ScottM-Sonex1629 » Mon Feb 01, 2016 11:07 pm

Anybody else that has a tri-gear have issues with the nose wheel pant? The mains were a tight (stretched) fit, but the nose pant would not fit over the attachment brackets at all. After my break on the project, I decided to just cut the whole thing in half, expand it to fit, lock this in with metal plates, then re-glass it back together. Got this accomplished last weekend.

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Also getting closer to moving the plane back out to the airport. Have a hangar now ready to move in!

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Re: Scott's Sonex #1629 - Progress

Postby Bryan Cotton » Tue Feb 02, 2016 8:48 am

Boy that is one empty looking hangar. You seem to have more affinity to fiberglass than I do. I would have taken the easy path and converted it to tailwheel.
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Re: Scott's Sonex #1629 - Progress

Postby Concorde » Tue Feb 02, 2016 11:49 am

ScottM-Sonex1629 wrote:Anybody else that has a tri-gear have issues with the nose wheel pant? The mains were a tight (stretched) fit, but the nose pant would not fit over the attachment brackets at all. After my break on the project, I decided to just cut the whole thing in half, expand it to fit, lock this in with metal plates, then re-glass it back together. Got this accomplished last weekend.

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Also getting closer to moving the plane back out to the airport. Have a hangar now ready to move in!

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Hi Scott,
You have the flat sided nose wheel pant , with this you don't need brackets and it's suppose to be screwed directly to the struts,but so far I'm not sure exactly how to do it .
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Re: Scott's Sonex #1629 - Progress

Postby ScottM-Sonex1629 » Tue Feb 02, 2016 12:18 pm

Ben:

How did you figure that out? I followed my plans and they still show making the wheel pant attachment bracket, which stick out past the nose gear axle bolt. Too late now to try and attach directly to the nose gear strut...LOL. Still don't see how that would work, as the bolt which forms the nose wheel axle has a head and nut/cotter pin the the wheel pant would have to cover.
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Re: Scott's Sonex #1629 - Progress

Postby Concorde » Tue Feb 02, 2016 10:01 pm

Scott,
My plan doesn't show anything about brackets,I asked Sonex and that's what Kerry said.
Plan refers to ONX-..... But I haven't figure that out yet.
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