AIRCRAFT HARDWARE, What You Need To Know (AN Nuts Bolts Info)

[barnstorm2]

http://gyrowiki.com/GyroWiki/Aircraft%20Hardware.aspx

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[scottessex]

Hey Tim, that is good info, It was written by The guy (Ron Alexander) that owns the Peachstate airport just down the road from me.
He owns the airport, former Delta airlines pilot, and does the EAA sport air workshops, He also owns a DC-3 and a Waco, and a Boeing air mail something or another, the one on the website. http://www.peachstateaero.com/dotnetnuke/Home/tabid/104/Default.aspx Very connected in aviation, Thanks for posting it.
I just went to the local EAA meeting there today, I am going to try to get more involved with the local aviation community.

[barnstorm2]

Excellent news Scott!

I also need to post a reference for safety wiring aircraft.

[Steve McGowan]

Hey Tim, that is good info, It was written by The guy (Ron Alexander) that owns the Peachstate airport just down the road from me.
He owns the airport, former Delta airlines pilot, and does the EAA sport air workshops, He also owns a DC-3 and a Waco, and a Boeing air mail something or another, the one on the website. http://www.peachstateaero.com/dotnetnuke/Home/tabid/104/Default.aspx Very connected in aviation, Thanks for posting it.
I just went to the local EAA meeting there today, I am going to try to get more involved with the local aviation community.

Is he the guy that came out and jumped on all of us the day we were there Scott??:boink:

[dimwit]

Thank you Tim that is very good info and answered alot of questions that I had.
I also would like to see what you can come with on safety wiring for aircraft.
Thank you.

[JEFF TIPTON]

AC 43.13 1B chapter seven page 19.

http://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgAdvisoryCircular.nsf/0/99c827db9baac81b86256b4500596c4e/$FILE/Chapter%2007.pdf

[barnstorm2]

Thank you Jeff, Dim and guys!

Razzum (Murray Smith) sent me a very good email about adding some information about bogus (faked) AN hardware that turns up from time to time.

If anyone has any info/storys please post or send them to me.

Thanks!

[dimwit]

Thank you Tim I went ahead and printed off the entire chapter. Very good info. Thanx.

[LuftCarl]

I have never been much of a mechanical guy so I have a steep learning curve to deal with while building my gyro. I have found just getting a copy of the Aircraft Spruce catalog and studying the hardware section to be very useful.

[Doug Riley]

Tim, a few tip-offs that a piece of "AN" hardware is fake include:

No initials or trademark on the head of a bolt. The AN specs requires a symbol or initials showing who made it.

Castle nuts whose "legs" (the dividing metal bits between cotter pin slots) don't taper in toward the end of the nut.

Bolt head markings that are stamped in, rather than "coined" (raised).

Failure to comply with other design details provided in the AN drawings (get a copy and check out things like the round "washer" surface under the head, the structure of the thread area, etc.).

[barnstorm2]

Thank you Doug!