Hi Dave,
We jack ours up with a hydralic floor jack under the main gear leg (using a
wedge shaped jacking block described recently) and place blocks under the wings,
centered on the spars, just a couple of inches out from the fuselage. We place
a
thin piece of blue foam on top of the wood + concrete blocks to prevent damage
to the wing paint. Before jacking we remove the tail planes and set the tail
plane torque tubes on saw horses to more or less level the plane in pitch, then
tie the tail wheel spring to a weight to keep the tail from coming up. This
allows retracting the gear, etc.
regards,
Terry Seaver
A135 / N135TD
DJA727@aol.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Now that I am done with the airplane -- just about - I have to figure a
> different way of jacking it to swing the gear. I have been bolting through
> the fuselage, but now that I have paint on it (a good way to describe the
> quality of my paint job!) I cannot jack it that way.
>
> What are most people doing to jack their airplanes? I have seen motorcycle
> jacks under the fuselage (can't figure the way to support that without
> damaging the structure) and maybe under the wing spars - inboard (that would
> need to be secure from slipping onto the skin.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave
> A227
> mini U2
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