Flyin Bullfrog Posted February 14, 2017 Report Posted February 14, 2017 (edited) Given the cost and time to accomplish to leather wrap yokes, I decided to give it a try with a Beech Baron customer. He shipped out the yoke, I adjusted some pre existing patterns for seam allowances and went to work-accomplished in about 5 hrs. Polished and repainted the Beech template, all screws and hardware. Steam stretched the leather with good results. With some difficulty, I did my K yokes while in the airplane, much better and easier with a removed yoke. Sharing the results. Rico Lenway Flying Bull Frog LLC N231C Baron yoke.pptx Edited February 14, 2017 by Flyin Bullfrog 2
carusoam Posted February 19, 2017 Report Posted February 19, 2017 (edited) The frog's power point page opens almost automatically in the IPad keynote program... iPresentation of sorts. Nice photos of how the work is done. Thanks for sharing, Rico! Best regards, -a- Edited February 19, 2017 by carusoam
M016576 Posted February 19, 2017 Report Posted February 19, 2017 On 2/14/2017 at 6:09 AM, Flyin Bullfrog said: Given the cost and time to accomplish to leather wrap yokes, I decided to give it a try with a Beech Baron customer. He shipped out the yoke, I adjusted some pre existing patterns for seam allowances and went to work-accomplished in about 5 hrs. Polished and repainted the Beech template, all screws and hardware. Steam stretched the leather with good results. With some difficulty, I did my K yokes while in the airplane, much better and easier with a removed yoke. Sharing the results. Rico Lenway Flying Bull Frog LLC N231C Baron yoke.pptx What leather did you use, and did you save the templates? I bet if you sold templates plus leather hide, along with instructions, for about $200 bucks, you'd have quite a few customers.... many would rather do that than send them out and pay $800.00
Flyin Bullfrog Posted February 21, 2017 Author Report Posted February 21, 2017 I used black leather fm a left over project. This particular hide was bought fm RELIATEX. You can use ANY aviation hide. I did not use a template for the Mooney job. I did, however, use a template for the Baron yoke. There is some technique and tips that I will write up later. more to follow.
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