Travel boards

[AKEllsworth]

Hi everyone.  I am looking to rent or borrow travel boards to rig the elevator trim on my mooney M20C.  If anyone has a set they would be willing and able to loan or rent Please let me know 

Bryan Ellsworth

1969 Mooney M20C  SN690079

cell 8505019093

 

[Danb]

Give Allen a call.  @Alan Fox

[Alan Fox]

4 hours ago, Danb said:

Give Allen a call.  @Alan Fox

I dont lend them out 

[Kelpro999]

 If you’re in the San Diego area WE could do it but these are much too delicate to loan out.

[AKEllsworth]

Thanks for checking in on this request guys. 
 

[Pasturepilot]

6 hours ago, AKEllsworth said:

Thanks for checking in on this request guys. 
 

Where are you located? 

[Brian2034]

I rigged my C with a digital level, it takes more calculations / work to get the numbers right but everything looked good when we were finished. Have not flown since so I can’t report on the out come.

Travel boards are rare and don’t like to be shipped.

[Alan Fox]

3 minutes ago, Brian2034 said:

I rigged my C with a digital level, it takes more calculations / work to get the numbers right but everything looked good when we were finished. Have not flown since so I can’t report on the out come.

Travel boards are rare and don’t like to be shipped.

For the level , Do you set the upper surface of the wing at zero , and work from there ?

[redbaron1982]

Are the drawings available to fabricate them? It doesn't look too hard to make with laser cutting.

[Brian2034]

8 hours ago, Alan Fox said:

For the level , Do you set the upper surface of the wing at zero , and work from there ?

Yes, the top of the wing and we choose a point along a rib line so we could place the level in the exact location each time. Zero the level or take the degree reading from the level and call it the starting  point or zero. 
We also for reference called the ailerons zero when the aileron tip or horn was inline with the wingtip. 

[M20F-1968]

I have travel boards and was planning on making some for owners needing them, but life gets in the way.  I do not lend them or ship them as they are too big, too easily damaged, and too difficult to reproduce to lend or ship out.  I do not see being available to make these in the near future (perhaps later in the year when it is warmer and I can get my shop cleaned out and workable) but I may be able to scribe (precisely mark with a sharp scriber) the outline of the travel boards onto marine plywood and make 1:1 cop[ies of the scales and which can be printed onto a suitable material to be mounted onto the boards.  You could use that to make a set.  I would give you the best location information for mounting the scales based on what I have.  Cost would be for the marine plywood (which is what was used by the factory before aluminum), cost of reproducing the scales, my time and shipping.  It is not feasible to make a paper template since it will not be sufficiently accurate.  It will need to be a direct copy of an original board scribed onto new plywood and cut extremely carefully to the very edge of the scribe mark.  It can be cut carefully with a variable-speed jig saw with an appropriate blade or a band saw with a large table.