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Dave's RV-10 Build Log
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Date:  10-6-2017
Number of Hours:  5.50
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Brief Description:  Wheels & Brakes

Installed main gear wheels onto the gear legs and secured with cotter pins.
Installed brake cylinder assemblies (brake calipers) onto the wheels.

Fabricated brake lines from fitting on bottom of fuselage to the brake cylinder. The initial attempt at bending the lines starting from the top per the drawings failed (crimped the tubing).
Cut a shorter piece of the failed line and tried doing a 90 deg. bend with the tubing bender and then hand bending it around a cylinder (~4" diameter). With this as a start, I was able to get a proper fit at the bottom of the gear leg and now had a template to try again.

Starting over with new tubing, starting first by bending the bottom end to match the trial piece. Then worked it into place at the brake, and cut the length of the straight section about an inch longer than required. Bent a starting offset at the top end of the tubing, cut the top end to required length, flared the top with the fitting and installed to the top fitting finger tight while making a slight second bend by hand to run down the gear leg.
Taped the straight length of the tubing to the gear leg with masking tape in 2 places, and then determined the required length of the bottom end for proper fit to the brake cylinder. Cut the bottom end of the tubing to length, flared on the fitting, and adjusted the bend slightly to properly align with the fitting and made up the fitting. Tightened both brake fittings.

Repeated the above for the right brake line, making a mirror image of the lower bend, and secured the right brake line in place.

Secured brake line to the gear leg in 4 places with silicone tape (instead of friction tape).

Installed the nose gear link assembly withVA-143 bushing, torqued bolt and installed cotter pin.
Installed the WD-1015 Nose Gear Link Collar Assembly onto the shaft of the WD-1016 Nose Gear Link Assembly, but could not compress the Nose Gear Elastomers enough to align the bolt hole. (Used a scissor jack to raise the nose wheel to compress the elastomers but the fu
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