Mooney gear up at my home field today

[DaV8or]

instead of using lock wire use shear wire, does the same thing but allows you to easily break it in an emergency instead of trying to divide your attention and remove the lock wire.

Brian

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What is shear wire? Where does one use that?

[N201MKTurbo]

What does the wire connect to?

 

The center of the crank (shaft) and the engagement knob.

[N201MKTurbo]

What is shear wire? Where does one use that?

 

It is brass lock wire that you can break with your bare hands if you are mad enough.

[MB65E]

Haha! Just bought a can! Sounds like a good idea! Also, I put a key chain ring and lock wire extension around the CB that's down by the handle. That CB is tricky to grab parked on the ground, let alone flying around trying to dump the gear.

Citations even have shear wire on the EMR gear extensions on the N2 bottles.. and their operated by a lawn mower cable!

Still beats having the Gear welded down!

-Matt

[orionflt]

I thought of that, but I didn't have any. Besides, I didn't want it to break. My Ex-partner would have found a way to break it with his knee.

 

Either way removing the lock wire isn't hard. Much easier then turning the crank the 1000 turns or so that it takes to lower the gear!

that is one reason i like my johnson bar

[N201MKTurbo]

that is one reason i like my johnson bar

 

I flew an F for 19 years before I bought my J. I would trade the delicate electric actuator for the Johnson bar any day. It was a superior set up!

[bonal]

Believe it or not the johnson bar was the main reason I bought a mooney. only retractable I could trust. I know it can fail but has exceptional reliablity. All those motors and hydrolics and switches YIKES!

[Ned Gravel]

Believe it or not the johnson bar was the main reason I bought a mooney. only retractable I could trust. I know it can fail but has exceptional reliablity. All those motors and hydrolics and switches YIKES!

 

 

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