{"id":1171,"date":"2013-02-21T13:10:02","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T19:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/?p=1171"},"modified":"2015-02-08T08:32:28","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T14:32:28","slug":"7-x-parking-brake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/21\/7-x-parking-brake\/","title":{"rendered":"7.7.2 Parking Brake"},"content":{"rendered":"
This entry is part 11 of 39 in the series 07 - Landing Gear<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

I’ve already installed the parking brake valve. Now I have to decide how to actuate it. I thought about using a simple push\/pull cable. But then I’ve got to allocate panel space to it (along with the knob protruding from the panel).<\/p>\n

So I decided on a different approach. I made an “L” shaped bracket from 1\/8″ aluminum stock and painted it bright red. This gets mounted to the lower edge of the instrument panel. Then I used some leftover 1\/4″ aluminum rod which I drilled and tapped. Finally, the rod ends that were leftover from the factory nose gear door mechanism.<\/p>\n

View from behind the panel. Parking brake valve is on the right, Actuator lever is on the left.<\/p>\n

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Looking the lever in the non-locked position from the pilot’s seat.<\/p>\n

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Looking the lever in the locked position from the pilot’s seat.<\/p>\n

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It will be pretty much impossible to not realize that the parking brake is set.<\/p>\n

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This entry is part 11 of 39 in the series 07 - Landing Gear<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

I’ve already installed the parking brake valve. Now I have to decide how to actuate it. I thought about using a simple push\/pull cable. But then I’ve got to allocate panel space to it (along with the knob protruding from … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"series":[31],"class_list":["post-1171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-45","series-07-landing-gear"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3106,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions\/3106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}