Just a short suggestion yoiu may want to try. I added a cover to the top
rail over which the bungees loop. It is a styrene (I think) plastic shower
curtain rail cover sold by a large (SEARS) department store locally. It is
split lengthwise and 'curls' on nicely and so prevents future rubbing or
chafing of the paint surface. I have also covered the mod52 AUW increase mod
rod and several others which might suffer similarly. The cover also serves
to reduce any local friction in the bungee procedure.
Cheers, Ferg A064
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Burton" <markb@ordern.com>
Subject: Re: Europa-List: Alternative Trigear Bungee Fitment
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| Hi Jerry,
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| > Can someone steer me towards the details of the single loops of Bungee
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| > replace the continuous Bungee system for Europa Nose Gear.
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| > My Nose gear is yet again gone 'soft' and would like to try this new
| > approach.
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| The following probably only makes sense for converted monos that still
| have a hole in the bottom!
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| I have used single loops of bungee that stretch around the T-bar to
| the centre tube (as G-NEAT is a converted mono, this is where the
| over-centre supports pivoted from).
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| The bungee is threaded over the centre tube and the ends clamped
| together with little clamps (kindly supplied to me by Kevin
| Pilcher). The loop of bungee can then be stretched down and over the
| end of the T-bar. If the tension isn't quite right you can move the
| clamp and try again. The stripes on the bungee should be something
| like 1" apart at the right tension. Keep adding loops of bungee until
| you have enough and the result is "hard".
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| The great advantage of this method is that you can re-tension
| individual loops without doing yourself an injury and even take more
| than half off without the thing collapsing.
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| Kevin uses a variation of this method where he makes up larger loops
| that stretch from the T-bar, over the centre tube and back down to the
| T-bar. I tried that, but being weak, I found I just wasn't capable of
| pulling the bungee down to the T-bar. However, single loops between
| the centre tube and the T-bar are not too difficult to tension
| adequately. The disadvantages of my method (compared to Kevin's) are
| that you need twice as many clamps and the bungee has to be formed
| into a loop in place over the centre tube (actually, no big deal).
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| The end result is "well hard" and much easier to maintain than the
| factory method.
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| I hope this makes sense and is helpful.
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| Regards,
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| mark
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