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MAKE YOUR RV SLIDER ------->
also TIP UP
The original
Tip-Up-Slider was introduced at Oshkosh 2000 by me. Five years later, I
found another interesting Tip-Up/Slider version created by John Ward. They
both have their advantages. We thought we'd offer this one for sale as
well.
Here's what John has to
say:
When we visited Oshkosh this summer (2005), many of you
saw our airplane with its sliding canopy and tip up system. After so many
expressed an interest in it, we decided to build a few kits and offer them for
sale. We’ve actually made many improvements since you last saw it.
Here’s a little
history about how this design came about. My wife loves to fly cross country
with me, and, of course we need to carry some luggage for that. RV6’s and 7’s
have plenty of capacity (volume and weight), but it can be difficult to get all
that stuff into the baggage compartment of the sliders. We had seen another
fine example of a slider with a tip up feature out there, but we wanted to do
our own unique version just for the challenge of it. We built our canopy with
our own aluminum canopy roller brackets, replacing the perfectly good welded
steel versions as supplied by Van’s. These brackets allow the canopy to tip
forward, but we still only had a broomstick to hold it up! It took about a year
of mostly standing there looking at the problem of how to hold the canopy up,
that it finally came to us. As engineers, we like the system now. It looks
good, is elegantly simple, and is as easy to install as possible. An added bonus
is that it is now easier to access the baggage area for maintenance and
cleaning. My wife likes how easy it is to put all of our bags in. Now she wants
headrests for when she takes a nap! I guess that the RV Tipper means that we can
have headrests and still have access to the baggage area!
Here is how it
should work when you get done. Stand on the left side behind the wing.
Lift the canopy slide stop to let the canopy slide all the
way back so that the UHMW guide will lift off of the T-rail
Lift the back of the canopy up 8—12 inches
Slide the canopy forward to the stop and tip it up
Extend the strut straight up all the way and then tilt it
forward
Engage the strut into the UNHW canopy slide and twist ¼ turn
to lock
Since the strut supports the canopy in the center, no side loads are
imposed. It is locked in place so that the wind won’t pull it off of the strut.
The
intermediate stop can be used to limit how far open the canopy slides when we
are in taxi or run-up mode. It keeps the charts in the plane!
For more info, see:
www.jrwengineering.com
John's
Tip-Up-Slider JTS-1 Instructions
John's Tip-Up-Slider
JTS-1 Slide Stop Parts
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