danny_galaga

3 minutes ago, IBob said:

Yes, but now you're our resident Matco parking brake expert......)

Not really, it's been so long since I looked at them I can't remember anything about it 🤣

40 minutes ago, IBob said:

Yep, I for one misunderstood: my park brake is just a pair of ganged ball valves (one for each line): press on the brakes and turn off the valve.

I guess there must be some good reason for the arrangement of poppet valves and lift cams in the unit you have, presumably that you can apply the brakes regardless of the valve position...

All I know is it made me wish it still had the previous version of brakes with just cables, drums and a handbrake 🤣

Just updating my blog sites. I think most readers missed the point here that the park brake assembly itself was assembled incorrectly so that it couldn't work as a park brake. All it was doing was turning the brakes on and off- that is, in position 1 had working brakes, and in position 2 they didn't work, but no park brake in either case!

I tried to bleed them the 'airplane' way before I realised the park brake was faulty. Wasn't working of course So i ended up bleeding them the 'automotive' way. After all, if it's good enough for hundreds of millions of cars...

Yes, all I have is park brake off option as it stands. The other position essentially turns off the brakes !

1 minute ago, Downunder said:

You WILL want a park brake.

You underestimate how lazy I am!

Hehe. I think sometimes it would be easier to work from plans! But im way too lazy for that! Anyway, I’ve stopped pouting and working on it again. It is a lovely plane to fly so I must keep thinking of the end result

Thanks for your kind words, helps put it in context ?

Just now, 4Hummer said:

Looking Good.      What size tire's are those?  I'm planning on building my Bushcat in my 2 1/2 car garage as well,   Think I may need some small dummy tires to be able to roll it out of the garage.

They are 850 x 6 airtrac 

on the garage question. First thing we did was decant the largest crate with the large fibreglass parts. That crate ended up as my partners sons doghouse:)

we we really wanted to hang on to the other crates because they looked useful. Soon after we stacked up the three you can see behind the plane we hired a trailer and dumped them. Just took up too much room. You may have more room than us of course and it would have been better to kee everything in the big crate as it did get tiring shuffling the pieces around all the time!

Ha! I mentioned this to my partner who had done a lot of cabling etc in her time. She said she coulda told me that ?