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Builder Name:Jeff Seaborn   -  
Project:   Dalotel DM165   -   VIEW REPORTS
Total Hours:653
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Start/Last Date:Nov 06, 2019 - Nov 06, 2019
Engine:Originally Continental IO-346 A what? Yep, an IO-346 as used in Muskateers of the same vintage
Propeller:A Regy Wooden Fixed Pitch What the heck is that? A French prop from that era
Panel:Steam gauges circa 1969. In French and in metric. Yikes!
 
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Dec 01, 2021     Retract Motor Assembly and Install - (3.5 hours)       Category: Landing Gear
Reassembled and installed retract motor. Took longer than it should have but isn't that the case with all projects? It was a challenge to reinstall due to the lack of clearances and such. This required the heavy motor, the manual retract crank assembly, the outboard bearing set, the supporting frame assembly, and all the associated bolts to come together all at the same time. The plane wasn't designed for serviceability.

There is a hand crank that engages to the motor to manually crank the gear up. This crank assembly slides on a rod that is mounted under the floorboards and engages and disengages from the output shaft of the retract motor. The cranks are mounted right in front of base of the rear control stick. It will be very awkward for the pilot if they need to use the manual crank.

It takes 10 full revolutions of the hand crank to get one full revolution of the retract motor output shafts. These shafts feed the torque tubes that are the input to the retract gearboxes in the wing. The input to the wing gearboxes require 37 revolutions for one full cycle of the landing gear. My math tells me that it will take 10 x 37 = 370 revolutions of the hand crank to cycle the gear one full cycle. Assuming extending the gear from retracted to full extension is exactly half that, it's a measly 185 revolutions of the hand cranks to lower the gear in the event of a failure of the retract motor. Let's hope that's never happens.


 


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