WANTED - Pants Mounting Plates

[8102]

A previous post discussing the installation of wheel pants has some good photos of the mounting plate as installed. See attached link.

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Gregg

[juliogdiana]

I will take pictures from my flat plates, may be able to do something.

[6643]

This picture from the above mentioned thread shows the contour.



Further on in that thread is a picture of my beat up set...

[8233]

Hello guys,

I got my hands on a nice genuine aluminum set of 120/140 pants for my 1946 C120, however it didnt have the mounting plates.
I put a add on Facebook looking for a mounting plates and I bought two sets from a guys in States, however I dont think they are the right ones, they are flat and the holes doesnt match my pants, I tried to contact the member who does the carbon fiber mounting plates but his e-mail isnt working.
I can see that the carbon fiber ones are not flat and have a bit of shape on them, I think it is the one I need, could you guys could give any advice about if I can a buy a set of mounting plates or just change the holes on my existing flat plates.

Thanks in advance.

I’ll message you the email contact for the carbon fiber ones. He is still making them.

[4004]

Jody:
If your wheel pants haven't been off in "12 years", and if your aircraft is in annual, what kind of pen did your IA use - a Parker or a Sharpie?
The devil made me do it!

[a64pilot]

Pants have been off, but the plates haven’t. I bought the airplane and it had 8.00 x 6 on it, I didn’t know it until I bought it, but it came with original undamaged pants in a cardboard box, owner didn’t think much of them. I took off the extenders and put the pants on. I’m surprised extenders haven’t led to broken gear and gearbox cracks, moving that wheel out in front of the gear leg has to impart a twisting moment?

I had the pants off last month to reline the brakes, and the month before that to replace the slave cylinder O-ring. Are we allowed to call it that now?

I’m the IA, currently not, but as I believe I’m getting a complex aircraft soon, I’ll retest to renew the IA. I’m looking for a Meyers 200D, but they are sort of uncommon, may have to just get an old V tail. 140 is a good little airplane, just not as good a traveling airplane as I’d like. I’ll keep the 140 of course, it’s good for tooling around, 5 gph etc is hard to beat.

[6643]

I’ll retest to renew the IA.

Can't you just attend a couple of seminars?

may have to just get an old V tail.

Contact me if you want a project! Seriously!

[2356]

There is a Myers on Barnstormers.

[a64pilot]

I’ll retest to renew the IA.

Can't you just attend a couple of seminars?

may have to just get an old V tail.

Contact me if you want a project! Seriously!

I contacted the local FSDO expecting and hoping an answer similar to that, but was told that I would have to start over, with the interview to get an 8610-1, which is of course the form that gives you permission to test, and would have to re-test.
I doubt arguing would get me anywhere.

Oh, and on edit, last thing I want is a project. I want an airplane to fly, not work on, besides I’ve never seen a project come in less expensive than a flying airplane. It like building an airplane, I have no desire to do that either.
I looked for a while at RV’s, but a 200 HP RV goes for 100k,and with a field overhauled engine, which is nuts, for less than 100K you can get as fast or faster four place airplane that can carry four people and or luggage, and has some shoulder room.

[a64pilot]

There is a Myers on Barnstormers.

If it’s 97M that your talking about, I should be signing a purchase agreement soon, then flying up Commercially to conduct an Annual with a local IA that owns a Meyers in mid Feb.
Apparently the “owner” is flaky, story I got was Mom bought him and his brother the airplane, Mom is now mad at one brother and has the other selling the airplane, current owner isn’t rated to fly it.
If you look at the pictures you’ll see one of those skull decals on the tail. apparently that skull is some kind of video game something, making me think he is some spoiled Millenial or whatever they are called.

I say flaky because he won’t let the IA take the books to look at them for fear of them disappearing, and is sort of pissy about us doing an annual, stating he doesn’t understand why an annual is required, it just had one.

So, this may or may not happen, but I’m certainly not buying a high performance complex over 50 yr old airplane without me performing an Annual, only a fool would in my opinion.