Tire 600x6 6ply

[cvavon]

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it sure is nice being from Il in stead of liveing there as i did

[swoeric]

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Well i have loved this thread...I too will one day work on making my paper work match my plane...i keep putting it off...what i have learned though 8 inch tires up front shorten take off roll and help climbing back onto asphalt...install of scott 3200 removed and gain of take of roll...install of 8.50s help to shorten take off roll a bit more and makes pasture taxing ok...when water skiing it doesnt matter if the brakes are locked or not just stay above 57MPH when you land after water skiing with shinn brakes you still dont have them....if you do have shiin brakes and dont like fiddling learn to do a run up while taxing....and the plane flys much better in the summer with both doors removed......Look for a new thread in up coming days about wiring and same documentation (Christmas is coming )

[astjp2]

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Well the bigger tires increased the angle of attack. Then you put on the 3200, it decreaed it and the 8.50's increased it again. I try to lift the tail and keep it up from a dead stop. That will give great practice on working with the hydraulic brakes. Tim

[Mark Julicher]

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The Illinois bureaucrats are fun to mess with. I had my T-craft based on a private airstrip while I was stationed at Scott AFB. IL. One day I got a letter telling me I had to register my "Pilot's License." Cool. I called the Chicago muckey-muck's office and spoke with the idiot in charge. I told him I did not have a pilots license, only an airman's certificate. THAT really confused them. Then I was told I had to register my plane in Illinois because that paid for the state maintenance on the airports. (All I ever saw them do was paint some center lines one time and provide me with a stupid State chart that clearly stated it could not be used for aerial navigation) Anyway, I told them my plane was not on a state airport and I did not use their services. So then I got a threatening letter that told me what might happen if I was ever caught on a state operated airport. Woah - scary! If those fellows could license AIR they would do it.

[Larry Lyons]

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Woah - scary! If those fellows could license AIR they would do it.

So your the one who gave them the idea!

[M Towsley]

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I'm surprised they don't have tollbooths at the end of runways. Of course they would be run by friends of the governor who would get the contract after siphoning money off to donate to the campaign fund.

Probably one of the best things you could have done was call Chicago. Not a lot of motivated folks working up there, just a bunch of paycheck collectors.

A couple of our reps just proposed to split Chicago from the rest of downstate. I think most of the downstaters would agree.

Illinois used to provide a small binder with all the airports, had pictures of the airports and all the pertinent info about the airport in the binder. They stopped producing it years ago. I wrote a letter to the woman who was in-charge regarding reprinting them. I never got a response back.

[cvavon]

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Marty will send you a new 2011 airport guide and if i can fined a wac chart also from Tn our Poor state still prints them and there FREE!

[M Towsley]

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The money for our airport charts is going with another one of our governors going to prison, (or more likely his defense attorneys). He gets sentenced next week.

[Larry Lyons]

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Illinois used to provide a small binder with all the airports, had pictures of the airports and all the pertinent info about the airport in the binder. They stopped producing it years ago. I wrote a letter to the woman who was in-charge regarding reprinting them. I never got a response back.

I still have a couple of those little books, loved to just daydream about flying in to them whan I was a kid. L

[M Towsley]

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I know exactly what you are saying, Larry. Unfortunately, I gave mine away when I got out of flying a couple of years ago. Still kicking myself over it. I know I will find another around here, somewhere.

[M Jones]

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I have one somewhere that I started checking off the page of all of the airports where I had landed. Wow, time does go by. First one checked was over 30 years ago...

[fearofpavement]

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So this talk about ply ratings on tires aroused my curiosity and I looked at a T-craft tire a few days ago to see what it was wearing and it was an 8 ply tire! Oh my... And the plane had been flying that way too. I wasn't sure whether to call the "people that are there to help you" or just stab it so the plane wouldn't leave the ground again. I didn't do anything, just carried on with what I was doing before that distraction.

[astjp2]

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A prudent individual would have used the N-number, paid the $10.00 for the historical CD from the FAA, waited the 8 weeks to receive it, and seen if they had an approved 337 for the major alteration, with that information, then a proper red tag can be placed on said aircraft's propeller giving YOUR name and number for where you can be contacted. This would allow said owner to contact YOU so YOU could assist said owner on filling out the proper field approval. With said field approval, you will have assisted a fellow owner in obtaining proper documentation to ensure no violation would ensue from bad, misinformed, people that assume common sense is used in aircraft maintenance documentation. Oh an by the way, you are now responsible for that aircraft for the rest of your legally liable life!



Where the hell is Forrest? Normally he comments about meeting type design, but not a peep on this?

So this talk about ply ratings on tires aroused my curiosity and I looked at a T-craft tire a few days ago to see what it was wearing and it was an 8 ply tire! Oh my... And the plane had been flying that way too. I wasn't sure whether to call the "people that are there to help you" or just stab it so the plane wouldn't leave the ground again. I didn't do anything, just carried on with what I was doing before that distraction.

[Forrest Barber]

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Can I use my "Scooter" 6:00 x 6 tires on my Model A TAylorcraft. They were built for Cushman . By the way that is where you can get brake linings too. Cushman used them too!

I have let this thread alone too long. I have research to do and may put it into the long over due newsletter. Flew the F-19 a lot today ; no overheat problems ; below freezing at all altitudes.

[prospector]

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If the ply raring is so serious, what are the ramifications of changing to 8" tires and a Maule tail wheel on a BL-65 ?