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  1. EDMO added a post in a topic Overhaul time!   

    I'm getting old - Should have remembered the spray brake cleaner !
    Maybe I breathed too much MEK, acetone, carb cleaner, and epoxy while I was working?
    Tried for 2 hours yesterday to think of the title of the book written in the 1500's which talks about my family Castle and lands in England - finally remembered - "Ivanhoe" !  And, I have read it several times...
    Got to finish "Foxy" before I forget how I planned to do it !
    EDMO
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  2. wypaul added a post in a topic Overhaul time!   

    You can use spray brake cleaner to clean the brake fluid off the pad. Works great.
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  3. EDMO added a post in a topic Overhaul time!   

    When I put new Wheels and brakes on, I had to taxi with power against dragging the brakes until they glazed and started to hold.
    Before that, they wouldn't hold for runnup -
    Don't see why you couldn't abrade them with a file, but wonder about using sandpaper as any remaining grit could score disks - probably wont help a deep saturation of fluid tho - try some kind of thinner or whatever to get rid of the fluid.
    EDMO
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  4. C5Engineer added a post in a topic Overhaul time!   

    I was able to get my gear all mocked up and the backing plates, cotter pins, and axle retainer bolt holes drilled. Tedious work mocking everything up but it's ready for paint now finally.

    Has anyone ever hit their brake pads with 220 grit paper? The glazing on this set of pads is really uneven and while putting everything together today one caliper puked a bunch of fluid from moving and some got on the pads.
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  5. dholly added a post in a topic 2nd Annual RedHills Memorial Day Fly-In pics   

    That was a well done video. I have so many pics and vids, someday Im going to figure out how to put them together. Looks like nice wholesome family fun Joey, betcha missed having your Avid there though...
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  6. dholly added a post in a topic Overhaul time!   

    LMAO!
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  7. dholly added a post in a topic Classic IV Restoration   

    Mangy no more, looking good!
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  8. dholly added a post in a topic Lost a Good Friend Today   

    Oh, so sorry Randy, what an awful accident. I trust your friend Jay is eternally giddy now, called to an unlimited number of exciting new sand bars with all his long lost buddies and the good Lord riding shotgun. Peace be with you brother.
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  9. marshawk added a post in a topic Lost a Good Friend Today   

    Sorry to hear .that really sucks
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  10. akflyer added a post in a topic Lost a Good Friend Today   

    Sorry for the loss Randy. Condolences to Jay's family.  Things like this just don't make sense other than he was called home....
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  11. Av8r3400 added a post in a topic Classic IV Restoration   

    With a little luck it will be flying yet this year and out west next fall...
     
    Hoping to put together an Idaho trip next September with the usual suspects from my neighborhood.
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  12. Dusty added a post in a topic 582 charging   

    ChrisB
    I will go the original rotax way ( message sent, thanks c5)
    I will install a breaker between the regulater and battery as my original cook up was with an original reg
    My battery is a ytx.14-bs.
    When I start everything except the facet pump is off, would this low load possibly be some of my problem?
    My engine guy reckons the only way to damage the charge coils is a back feed from the battery,
    Even shorting them wouldn't harm them. Does this sound correct
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  13. C5Engineer added a post in a topic Classic IV Restoration   

    Looking great Larry! Can't wait to see the finished bird.
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  14. C5Engineer added a post in a topic Lost a Good Friend Today   

    Sorry to hear that Randy. I just read the news article. Was wondering(hoping not) any of you guys up North had ties. Prayers for the friends and family members.
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  15. EDMO added a post in a topic Classic IV Restoration   

    Here is my "Foxy", smiling to fly!  She actually got into my shoe and went to sleep when we first got her!
    Now, she's a spoiled, fat-ass, little barker, who is as long as both of my shoes, toe to heel....and still sleeps on my shoes!
    EDMO

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  16. Av8r3400 added a post in a topic Lost a Good Friend Today   

    My condolences to you and Jay's family for the loss.
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  17. EDMO added a post in a topic Lost a Good Friend Today   

    All of us should hope that we have a good friend who can say some kind words about us after we've gone West, or maybe even before we go.
    You did well Randy.   Sorry for your loss of a Good Friend.
    EDMO
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  18. Bandit added a post in a topic Lost a Good Friend Today   

    Sorry to hear that Randy.
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  19. jackak added a post in a topic Lost a Good Friend Today   

    Randy,
    So sorry to hear about Jay. He was a great guy and a good friend.
     
    Jack
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  20. SuberAvid added a topic in Avidfoxflyers General Hangar   

    Lost a Good Friend Today
    A sad day for me today; a good friend and pilot who has been a great teacher and mentor for me here was killed yesterday from a prop hitting him.  A retired AF fighter pilot, commercial airline pilot and owner and operator of Alaska Cub Training Specialists here on Wolf Lake; also one of my closest flying safety nets. He brought my spare prop to me just last summer after I took it out and stranded myself in the middle of the Matanuska River.  I always knew if anyone could get to me he could, and he would be ready to help any time; just as he did for many others.  Jay Baldwin; a great pilot, instructor, family man, poet and friend; he will be missed by many.
     
    Fly safe friends, and especially fly saved.
     
    Randy
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  21. EDMO added a topic in Hangar Talk   

    AMPHIB FLOATS FOR CHRIS !
    KOOL IDEA Chris,
          Put floats on your Kayak Hauler, so you can load your boat on land, unload at the boat dock, and go down the rapids - load it up and fly off of water and home to the hanger ! KOOL
          You don't even have to remove your nosewheel !
    EDMO
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  22. EDMO added a post in a topic 582 charging   

    The larger alternator pulley should slow down the rpms of the alternator, so it gets less wear, less chance of overrev - Right?
    EDMO
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  23. Guest added a post in a topic 582 charging   

    The oversize pully makes a lot of sense. You can easily figure out the RPM the Alt will be turning by doing a pully ratio calc to make sure the alt won't be over reved with the large pully. I'm sure specs are available for the alternator design RPM.
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  24. Av8r3400 added a post in a topic Classic IV Restoration   

    Panels behind the seat carpeted and installed.

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  25. EDMO added a post in a topic 582 charging   

    Chris,
         I have 2 Subaru engines - one has a heavy-looking Nippon standard-looking alternator, (I think), and the one for the plane has a light weight Nippon alternator with a factory skeletonized body - haven't bothered to weigh each of them - just planning on using the light-looking one that came with the engine that looks like the one I have a bid on.  Hope this makes sense - confused me to read it again!  Ha!
    EDMO
    Still wondering about the oversize pulley - read about doing that somewhere before because of high 4000+ cruise rpms, compared to average 2000 rpms for car travel at 55 mph.
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