Hanging wings from hangar wall

[alaskabearhawk]

No problem. The wings are very light at this point. Besides, if it can't take that small load, I don't want them on my airplane!

[Mark Moyle]

I hung my wings horizontal, one above the other using the fixtures from the wing crate. I then suspended the bottom of the wing crate frame and styrofoam under the wings. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

[M Jones]

http://www.tieboss.com/

Just another option... I picked up some of these (1/4 and 3/8") from a vendor at Airventure in the fly market last summer. I think they should work for suspending the wings, I'm using them for hanging a canoe and bikes from the garage ceiling right now. They have a block and tackle setup also that would probably be ideal for hoisting. See the "Products" tab on the home page . Amazon has them too by the way.

I just remembered that the rope supplied on these would probably be too short to loop around the wing. I replaced mine with 25" each to loop around the canoe and have plenty of extra length.

[Zzz]

Uncreated my wings today, got them onto a dolley. They're a little heavier than I expected. Tomorrow I hang them from the hangar truss (after plastic wrapping the openings), should be fun. Thanks for all the tips.

[Zzz]

Here's how it ended up:

[alaskabearhawk]

Looks good! How high are the leading edges off the floor? Mine are about 6ft. If they are 4ft or lower, you may want to consider putting something up front to keep things from accidentally denting your top skin if it's even a remote possibility.

[Zzz]

Paul, I'd say they're about 5 to 5 1/2 feet off the floor. I hear ya-- the whole reason for hanging them is to prevent dents from floor operations in the hangar. I'd like to get them higher but I like having a shallower conversion of the yellow straps above to as to not apply lateral pressure to the trailing edge sheet metal. Also my hoist system pulleys and stuff just couldn't get me much higher. I have to say, kinda scary hoisting your $19,000 wings above a concrete slab.

Thanks for the tip on the plastic wrap. We get those little bastard mud dauber wasps out here in Oregon too.

[alaskabearhawk]

That should be plenty. I can relate to the wings hanging scarily above a slab of concrete...that's why I put two safety straps on in addition to the cables holding the wing!

[nuggets]

so do we know how heavy they are yet ?? How much weight are them straps supporting ??

[Chris In Milwaukee]

Will the plastic wrap encourage condensation and subsequent corrosion for us in humid climates? For those of us who may or may not choose to prime internal surfaces?

[Zzz]

Will the plastic wrap encourage condensation and subsequent corrosion for us in humid climates? For those of us who may or may not choose to prime internal surfaces?

Good question, and I don't know the answer. I have yet to see any condensation on the plastic, but I have seen mud daubers and I know they'd love to make a condo out the wings.

[Chris In Milwaukee]

Yes indeed! Thankfully we don't have those up here, but we've got plenty of other things that would be happy to live in there. Plastic wrap like that is the first thing I thought of, but it just dawned on me about condensation. I guess the goal is to not leave them hanging around that long :-)

[Zzz]

so do we know how heavy they are yet ?? How much weight are them straps supporting ??

I think Mark said something to the effect of 125 lbs each IIRC, but I could not be remembering correctly. I positioned the straps at ribs, used stiff carpet to help spread some of the pressure on the leading edge, and I made sure my straps convergence angle was greater than the wing profile so that the weight couldn't curl over the loose trailing edge wing skins.

[James]

Hi Guys,

Just a quick one, I'm planning to build a bench for my workshop - and for storage place the wing crates under it. Then I can get out each wing, put it on the bench and work on it. Does anyone know the outside dimensions of the crates, stacked two high like in the photos above?

Thanks in advance,

James

[Mark Moyle]

I hung my wings from the ceiling....whilst I finish the Pacer rebuild.
I'm done with the Pacer fuselage less the sky light....waiting on another sheet of green tint.
To move the Pacer to the hanger...one wall, some windows and an arctic entry in the way.
How long does it take to remove part of a building? Bout a minute



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