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Repairing a flat on a Monowheel

 
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rparigoris



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PostPosted: Fri May 24, 2019 5:17 pm    Post subject: Repairing a flat on a Monowheel Reply with quote

Hi Group How do those of you flying handle flat repair on a mono when away from home base? Thx. Ron P.

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JonathanMilbank



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PostPosted: Sat May 25, 2019 4:15 am    Post subject: Re: Repairing a flat on a Monowheel Reply with quote

Hi Ron,

For the many years while my aircraft was a mono, I always carried a "jacking piece" which I'd had welded up from plate. It had 4 holes in the face which was secured to the lower face of the swinging arm; 2 holes were just the right size for the 2 lower bolts (having first been removed from the arm) to be bolted back through the arm and retraction mechanism, while the other 2 holes were large enough to allow the upper 2 bolt heads to be accommodated without being removed.

The design of mine was done before I became aware of other mono owners who'd done similar but even better designs, including one made from plywood. It should be possible to find reference to those designs somewhere in this forum, oh here's one I just found:

http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?t=92035&highlight=jacking+block

Also a very good idea is to arrange your brake caliper assembly not to hang straight down towards the ground, in case of a flat tyre whose sidewall would get pinched between the bottom of the caliper and the runway, thereby making it more likely that the aircraft might nose over.


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