univair struts received?

[flyguy]

Did anyone say they have received the Univair struts. I've been watching, but may have missed it here.
Darryl

[Victor White]

Re: univair struts received?

Ordered my Univair struts 11/9/07 and picked them up at Tampa airport 11/17/07 The air freight only cost me $80.00, and there was no crating charge.

[Tom G]

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I ordered mine on November 19. At that time they told me the struts were there and they would ship right away. I needed mine sent by truck since my plane is at a friends rather remote airport about 100 miles from my house so they needed to be delivered to his door. They were supposed to arrive the latter part of this past week. However, when I called them early this week they had not shipped because they were out of the shipping tubes that they put the struts in. I called back this past Thursday and they had just shipped by ground FEDEX and they told me they would be delivered on Tuesday 12/4. I was a little disappointed that they didn't ship on time but its no big deal as the weather here hasn't been that great anyway. They've been very good to deal with though and I just noticed that my credit card was not charged until yesterday 12/1.

[flyguy]

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Vic, Tom, would either of you take time to measure the cross section dimensions of your Univair struts. Several people are asking, and it would be most appreciated.

NEVER MIND GOT THE INFO FROM UNIVAIR-- will post with other info.

Darryl

[flyguy]

Re: univair struts received?

Ok, will put it here.

Univair Struts

Front: 3.372 X 1.429, .049 mild steel

Rear: 2.360 X 1.00, .035 mild steel

Darryl

[Tom G]

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Mine arrived today. They came by FedEx Freight and I was able to set up an appointment so that my friend didn't have to hang around his house all day to wait for them. Actually the only way that FedEx Freight makes residential deliveries is by appointment. Anyway they are here and my friend is going to paint them tomorrow and hopefully we'll be able to install them and I'll be able to fly the plane home this weekend.

[Frank DeBartolo]

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My Univair struts did not come with the jury strut clamps and my IA made the front clamps. (I think he made them from 4130 steel). The rear clamps for the rear struts were similar in size and fit the rear struts, therefore we used the old ones.

Frank D

[flyguy]

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Tom, Frank, would you let us know what process your Inspectors go thru to sign off your aircraft on the strut change? For example, what takes place with the FSDO, if anything? I ask because of the general confusion on the AMOC, ect.
Darryl

[TimHicks]

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I ordered my Univair struts on Friday Nov 30. Univair called me 4 days later (including the weekend) on Tuesday Dec 4 to say that they were shipping. They arrived at the New Orleans international airport the next day, yesterday, Wednesday Dec 5, via Northwest Cargo. We picked them up there.
The 4 struts were packed very well in a single tube. Each strut was packaged so that it could not touch any other strut nor the wall of the shipping tube. The tube was a cardboard tube with about 3/8" wall. Sturdy.

Shipping was $102. It came "collect". Including the attach hardware that I also ordered, the bill from Univair was $1902.15.

Predictably, none of the sizes my old struts match the new struts. So I need new Jury Strut clamps. Univair said they didn't offer them. So I'll have to make new ones, I guess.

[whake]

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Mounted the new Univair struts today, I have a problem, ran out of ajustment on the rear strut cannot get the 1 and 5/16 wing position under the outer rib as specified on the rigging drawing...anyone have this problem???

[Guest]

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Mounted the new Univair struts today, I have a problem, ran out of ajustment on the rear strut cannot get the 1 and 5/16 wing position under the outer rib as specified on the rigging drawing...anyone have this problem???

Hi Walter,

No I didn't and I too got Univair struts.

Some thoughts,

1)I took one of those levels with a ruler stamped into the side and taped a 1-5/16" stand off at the 30" mark (I think 30" is right) before I did that I couldn't get a good "reading"

2) double check that you are at the correct rib location
3) I didn't use the bubble on the level but rather I held a protractor against the strait edge. I can read degrees on a protractor but I am not good at reading bubbles

Dave

[jstall]

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Before Installing The New Struts, Lay On Floor Or Other Appropiate Location, And Measure The Center Lengths And Data
And Set And Adjust The New Stuff To That Value As The Old Ones
Before Every Trying To Install. If They Are Not Right Call Manufacture. Otherwise They Should Adjust And Work Ok

Js

[crispy critter]

Re: univair struts received?

Mounted the new Univair struts today, I have a problem, ran out of ajustment on the rear strut cannot get the 1 and 5/16 wing position under the outer rib as specified on the rigging drawing...anyone have this problem???

If you can't make the new ones rig by the book then your old ones were not by the book either. The Univair strutd have about a half inch more adjustment then the originals(1/4" in each direction).

[Guest]

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Walter,

Are both sides the same? In other words can one side adjust ok but not the other?

I had a front one time that was on the short end of the tolerance so it made rigging difficult.

Its unlikely but possible that small differences in length are having an effect on you.

As a tool guy you know everything has a tolerance.

A possible remedy would be to swap sides with the rears only (or fronts only), it could also result in making things worse.

Dave

[Frank DeBartolo]

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Tribe,

This is not a very educated answer to this problem, but, I wonder if 1/2 inch off is significant and that the airplane will still fly just fine even tho it is a little off. The reason I say this is that most of these old birds have been groundlooped and pranged or even worse in the past and are currently flying with twisted fuselages--which could cause the problem 1/2 inch Walt encountered. Don't know....but I wonder if the airplane would probably fly just fine anyway. Again this is a very uneducated and intuitave guess with not a lot of merit, but maybe Forrest could add his two cents worth--his answer would carry a lot more weight than mine.

Frank D
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