Static line clips - ya gotta be KIDDING!

captain_john · Post by **captain_john** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 4:39 pm

OK, be honest...

Did anyone actually fab up a bunch of these things? I just made my first one and it just seems to me that they could have supplied some kind of standard part instead of bending 0.025" aluminum!

Am I alone in thinking these spec'ed clips are ghetto fabrication?

CJ

cjensen · Post by **cjensen** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 6:09 pm

Ghetto fab? Yep. I made three of them...made mine out of .016 though.

captain_john · Post by **captain_john** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 7:05 pm

Now, why didn't you utilize the keeper rivets instead of relying upon and hassling with the skin rivets?

I know it doesn't matter, but if you could put it to bed now with the keepers... why not?

CJ

smithhb · Post by **smithhb** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:18 pm

C'mon CJ, quit your *itching and get to building. If you wanted pre-fab you woulda bought a Cessna. How long does it take to bend some .016 strips around a Phillips screwdriver?

Oh, and Merry Christmas. I enjoyed the video.

cjensen · Post by **cjensen** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:28 pm

I think the keeper rivets would be ideal for the clips. I just didn't know I needed them until after I had the skins on.

captain_john · Post by **captain_john** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:38 pm

Bret, you should know me by now. I am not happy UNLESS I'm *itchin!

...and they are made out of 0.025'!!!

Chad, fair enough. I thought I was overlookin' sumpin!

BTW, I will be drilling out my keepers soon, as that is where I will put the clips.

CJ

smithhb · Post by **smithhb** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 10:31 pm

captain_john wrote: ...and they are made out of 0.025'!!!

O no! Chad, it looks like we will have to drill ours out and re-fab these "structural" clips out of .025. Das Fed has spoken!

cjensen · Post by **cjensen** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 11:10 pm

captain_john · Post by **captain_john** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 7:00 am

SLACKERS!

BTW, I recall an AN742 to be the "real" part, but it has a larger than #40 hole like we need.

CJ

smithhb · Post by **smithhb** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 10:49 pm

Hey CJ,

Look what Santa brought me...

Maybe if you had laid off the Captain Morgan a little this past year you might have gotten some too...

Hee hee, Merry Christmas!

captain_john · Post by **captain_john** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 8:42 am

Bret, I got mine done with a little complaining. They are fiddley little things.

What killed me is they are commercially sold, but what makes them unique is the #40 hole instead of the 0.19" mounting hole.

Yours aren't per plan, btw. Were you drinking when you read the diagram? I think you might fall out of the sky with those!

CJ

smithhb · Post by **smithhb** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 11:09 am

captain_john wrote:Yours aren't per plan, btw. Were you drinking when you read the diagram? I think you might fall out of the sky with those!
CJ

Per plans? You trying to tell me that Van supplies "plans" for making these clips? You gotta be kidding!

Don't need no stinkin' plans... Just build it!

captain_john · Post by **captain_john** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 11:33 am

I am guessing you didn't read the plans!

CJ