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Kupe's Zodiac 650B
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Date:  11-11-2015
Number of Hours:  1.00
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Brief Description:  Parking Brake Fiddling

I'm finally getting back into my early morning builder sessions. In the next few sessions I'm determined to finish the brake installation. I'm been putting this off due to my concern with parking brake placement so today I came to a decision.

First, after some conjoling by my Tech Counselor, I added a couple of nut plates to my home-brewed parking brake mount. I had originally planned to use normal locking nuts with the "hope" that I'd never really need to remove the brake for repairs at some future date. Well, that attitude didn't fool my TC or me, so today I installed the nut plates on the mounting bracket.

Next, I trimmed the verticle L-angle at the end of the mount to better accept the cable mount for the push-pull cable. Then I reinstalled the parking break back onto the mounting bracket and went hunting for a place to mount it.

While the whole parking brake assembly is smaller than my iPhone, it seems huge within the cramped quarters of the area just behind the firewall especially with the feed and return fuel hoses also there. So first, I tried some mounting positions on the firewall, but they either interfered with the rudder pedals, or they used the same territory as other assemblies on the engine side of the firewall. I finally ended up back in my original spot: On the floor, longitudinally centered, just behind the rudder pedal mount on the heel support. There was some interference between the feed fuel hose, which I solved by cutting a notch in the verticle support for the cable mount.
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Nut plates attached to the underside of the parking brake mounting bracket.

Nut plates attached to the underside of the parking brake mounting bracket.

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The two bolt holes to hold the parking brake to the mounting bracket.

The two bolt holes to hold the parking brake to the mounting bracket.

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The parking brake in position.

The parking brake in position.

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