X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 06:11:56 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from mail-gy0-f180.google.com ([209.85.160.180] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.4.1) with ESMTPS id 5133177 for lml@lancaironline.net; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:17:50 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=209.85.160.180; envelope-from=billhogarty@gmail.com Received: by gyd8 with SMTP id 8so4545307gyd.25 for ; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:17:15 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.68.8.195 with SMTP id t3mr5450430pba.107.1316711834754; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:17:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.63.129 with HTTP; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:17:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: X-Original-Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:17:14 -0700 X-Original-Message-ID: Subject: Re: [LML] Re: Gear Hand Pump LIV From: "William A. Hogarty" X-Original-To: Lancair Mailing List Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=bcaec5215a112e9efd04ad8add85 --bcaec5215a112e9efd04ad8add85 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 re: Hydraullic pump mod: Jeff: A picture of your mod would be appreciated. Also, what did the mod cost.? Thanks, Bill Hogarty On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 10:27 AM, wrote: > > > Brad Simmons (talented professional builder in Milan TN) > has shown me a modification to the > gear handle that solved this problem. The leaking hydralics at the > pump housing (which I had rebuilt three of four times to stop this) > must come from these little bumps and wiggles occurring against the > handle, permitting hydralic fluid to sneak past the seals. > > Using a machinist, the handle is cut short leaving ~40% (coming off > the pump), and a female fitting incorporated into the cut end. The > other 60% handle (with the bulb on end) gets a long male screw > mounted inside the hollow end. When screwed together, the handle is > solid. The 60% handle then sits elsewhere (side pouch or behind the > passenger front seat or cleated under the front spar lip). > > This opens up the entire leg area previously blocked by the handle > projecting out over the spar, and also significantly reduces the > presence of the handle/pump profile sitting between the seats. > Without the occasional bumps on the handle, small leakage from the > pump seals seems to have stopped. > > I sent my handle to Brad and he returned it > in two weeks machined and ready for reinstall. > > Jeff Liegner > LIVP in New Jersey > > > > > > >To: lml@lancaironline.net > >From: "Nicholas Paczkowski" > >Subject: Gear Hand Pump LIV > > > >Perhaps a dumb question (apologies in advance) but Is there a better > >alternative available to the manually operated hydraulic 'gear down' > >lever (such as a charged gas bottle) that would eliminate both the > >awkward lever and the seemingly inevitable leaking of hydraulic > >fluid? Thanks. > > > -- > For archives and unsub > http://mail.lancaironline.net:81/lists/lml/List.html > --bcaec5215a112e9efd04ad8add85 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable re:=A0 Hydraullic pump mod:

Jeff:=A0 A picture of your mod would be = appreciated.=A0 Also, what did the mod cost.?

Thanks, Bill Hogarty







On Thu, Sep 1,= 2011 at 10:27 AM, <liegner@earthlink.net> wrote:


Brad Simmons (talented professional builder in Milan TN)
has shown me a modification to the
gear handle that solved this problem. =A0The leaking hydralics at the
pump housing (which I had rebuilt three of four times to stop this)
must come from these little bumps and wiggles occurring against the
handle, permitting hydralic fluid to sneak past the seals.

Using a machinist, the handle is cut short leaving ~40% (coming off
the pump), and a female fitting incorporated into the cut end. =A0The
other 60% handle (with the bulb on end) gets a long male screw
mounted inside the hollow end. =A0When screwed together, the handle is
solid. =A0The 60% handle then sits elsewhere (side pouch or behind the
passenger front seat or cleated under the front spar lip).

This opens up the entire leg area previously blocked by the handle
projecting out over the spar, and also significantly reduces the
presence of the handle/pump profile sitting between the seats.
Without the occasional bumps on the handle, small leakage from the
pump seals seems to have stopped.

I sent my handle to Brad <dl602= 80@bellsouth.net> and he returned it
in two weeks machined and ready for reinstall.

Jeff Liegner
LIVP in New Jersey



>
>To: =A0lml@lancaironline.net
>From: "Nicholas Paczkowski" <npaczkowski@telus.net>
>Subject: Gear Hand Pump LIV
>
>Perhaps a dumb question (apologies in advance) but Is there a better >alternative available to the manually operated hydraulic 'gear down= '
>lever (such as a charged gas bottle) that would eliminate both the
>awkward lever and the seemingly inevitable leaking of hydraulic
>fluid? Thanks.


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