I meant to send this the last time this thread was up but didn't have
time. Us folks in the advertising world seem to be working twice as
hard for half the money these days.
Anyway, here is a shot of the front of Gold Rush. Just in case one of
you might want to take the simple way out of the landing light issue.
This is one of the new gas lights. At first I thought it interfered
with the cooling but after some testing with used oil runs the light
wasn't the cause. It ended up being some bad connectors for my
stratomaster engine monitor.
Regards,
Jeff R.
A258 - N128LJ / Gold Rush 170 hours but the runway is too soggy to fly
right now. I think the droughts over here in mid Tennessee!
On Jan 13, 2009, at 11:43 AM, rparigor@suffolk.lib.ny.us wrote:
>
> Has anyone tried a retractable Landing light or LED?
>
> Details please.
>
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>
> Thinking pretty hard about mounting our hockey puck sized Kunzleman
> LED on
> the forward portion of the outrigger OR1 (the recepticle for OR2
> outrigger
> rod).
>
> When LED is retracted, we will add to outrigger fairing an LED well
> (LED
> lead edge fairing) where it will be very similar to the outrigger wheel
> fairing, somewhat aerodynamic lead edge shape with aft section opened.
>
> Can think of it as an outrigger wheel positioned 90 degrees compared to
> the outrigger wheel at the tip of OR2 (outrigger rod).
>
> Install will be easy, turn around bolt that mounts OR2 to OR1 and
> screw it
> into a small piece of copper that will be mounted to the heat sink I
> will
> turn out of 6061 aluminium. The reason for the copper is it will be
> used
> for the aiming adjustment. Will first try a piece of the .500" wide,
> .125"
> thick copper alloy 110 I have laying around.
>
> Unlike old timer IBM typewriter repairmen (like my late Dad) who
> cringe at
> bending linkages to make a criticle adjustments, I am going the
> Olivetti
> or Royal typewriter route, where you make many adjustments by bending.
>
> LED should be in tomorrow, will see if it can be used for both Landing
> and
> Taxi with one adjustment. Beam spread is 24 degrees.
>
> Ron Parigoris
>
>
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