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Rob's REBVAIR Project
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Date:  8-26-2012
Number of Hours:  50.00
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Brief Description:  Engine mount reinforcements

Wayne O'Shea (Ontario) is a master Rebel builder and repairer who has long since advocated more robust firewall reinforcements than those Murphy Aircraft suggests. I decided to copy his design but as always, one has to remember the fact that in a hard landing, "something's gotta give". So if you reinforce somewhere, the forces are going to move to the next weakest point. I'll be honest, I'm not sure what those next weakest points are, but presumably it would be the corner wraps/ skins (which are easier to repair than a crinkled firewall?). Anyway, the actual pieces are 0.060" aluminum...two triangles up top, and a long-ish flat piece on the bottom. The triangles have a half-inch angle in them horizontally, for stiffness, and my trusty home-made bending brake was at its limits when folding this 0.060" stock.
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