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  1. Luked added a post in a topic Classic IV Restoration   

    Looks good Larry. The fun part will be putting it back together for the last time. I'm looking forward to seeing that happen.
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  2. C5Engineer added a post in a topic Saved Avid #392 from a barn today   

    Spent the afternoon cleaning the barn dust and mouse shit off everything today. Did a quick inventory and I am pretty pleased with what I ended up with. More corrosion on stuff that I'd like to see and I'm worried one wing may be junk due mice living the spar but won't know anything for sure until it's all opened up. Here are some pics of today's progress.
     
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    These Flaperons look a lot closer to the wing than mine
     

     
    Has anyone ever seen an Avid Digital Tach??
     

     

     
    Nice rats nest of wiring I pulled out
     

     
    The good stuff
     

     

     

     

     

     

     
    Walk thru video
     

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  3. Bandit added a post in a topic Saved Avid #392 from a barn today   

    Nice, Great find!
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  4. C5Engineer added a post in a topic Saved Avid #392 from a barn today   

    Doug the yearbook is all the builders tips from the newsletters and all the flying stories from them wrapped into one 100 page document. I will upload it.
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  5. Dusty added a post in a topic Bush gear springs   

    The effects of cold is something I missed, we do get frost here though!
    Would rubber give a measure of damping due to internal friction?
    Rubber may eliminate metal to metal contact as the spring rate should theoretically
    Increase as the load is applied.
    The gyro guys here used to use this systym?
    Maybe in search of a better mousetrap!
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  6. Guest added a post in a topic Saved Avid #392 from a barn today   

    SCORE!
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  7. dholly added a post in a topic Saved Avid #392 from a barn today   

    I think I have a copy of all the Avid-Comm newsletters but I've never seen the Yearbook.. What's that all about?
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  8. thebriman added a post in a topic Saved Avid #392 from a barn today   

    Awesome find Joey! 
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  9. 1avidflyer added a post in a topic Saved Avid #392 from a barn today   

    Good for you Joey. That is the mark IV gear. I've found deals on barnstormers as well.. You have to see the add early and act fast or it's gone. I got my Jabiru engine kind of like you. I was second in line and after a month and a half the seller gave up on the first would be buyer. I did call every week just to remind the seller I was waiting if things fell through. Jim Chuk
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  10. akflyer added a post in a topic Classic IV Restoration   

    It's hard to pull it apart, but it's the first step in final assembly to get this lady in the air! Keep at it mr!


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  11. Av8r3400 added a post in a topic Classic IV Restoration   

    Finished with the disassembly.  Kinda sad it only took a couple of hours to completely undo all of that building...
     

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  12. EDMO added a post in a topic Saved Avid #392 from a barn today   

    Awesome Joey - Everyone's dream - Finding a barn treasure, and dirt cheap!
    EDMO
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  13. Av8r3400 added a post in a topic Saved Avid #392 from a barn today   

      Great Steal!  
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  14. High Country added a post in a topic Saved Avid #392 from a barn today   

    Nice Joey, Is that the WIB gear i wonder? If you decide not to keep the cowl shoot me a PM. Any chance we could get you to scan in that year book for us? When I got our bird it had sat from 1987 til 2011 and never been worked on it was still a raw kit just moved a couple times. I got with it some pictures of Deans factory including pictures of the Avid explorer. makes you wonder what other goodies are just sitting under dust somewhere waiting for someone to find them that could actually appreciate it. 
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  15. marshawk added a post in a topic Saved Avid #392 from a barn today   

    Nice score,that looks like the gear that came on my avid plus project, I also got a Avid C project but needs a whole lot more work than yours
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  16. C5Engineer added a post in a topic Saved Avid #392 from a barn today   

    Forgot to mention I picked this up for half the price I just spent to extend the elevator on my plane.
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  17. Luked added a post in a topic Saved Avid #392 from a barn today   

    Awesome find! The paint scheme is pretty cool. That gear looks exactly like the gear legs that came with my MK-IV. The way the  step is welded is just like mine.
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  18. TJay added a post in a topic Saved Avid #392 from a barn today   

    sweet
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  19. C5Engineer added a topic in Avidfoxflyers General Hangar   

    Saved Avid #392 from a barn today
    I run thru the Avid and Kitfox section of Barnstormers once a week or so just to see what's there and what the market is doing. A few days ago an Avid popped up for parts that was just under 2 hrs from me. I called the guy on a whim and found it was a C model STOL with tanks in both wings and that it had been in a barn for over 20 years. Got some pics and it looked okay but I was number 3 in line. Got a call on Sunday saying the other guys had fell out and it was mine if I wanted it. I left at O dark thirty this morning and ran down to Turlock and picked it up. Was on a dairy farm with cows everywhere. It's dirty and stinky...Has some surface corrosion on a lot of stuff but I brought her home anyways. Had an engine out with a 532 and wrecked the gear, truss, and a few other things. Repairs to the fuse were made but they never put it back together. She had less than 100 hrs on her when she was sentenced to the barn in the early 90's.
     
    Avid #392. Has Hydraulic brakes but it had a side radiator so not sure if it's a B or C. Has the straight rudder and smaller elevator. Came with brand new gear, Rosenhan Brakes, a plastic leading edge cuff, 3 boxes of parts, a raw MK4 cowl along with the original cowl, a raw oil tank and spinner, 2-stroke motor mount, and some really awesome original documents that I didn't even know existed.
     

     

     
    Her new temp home
     

     
    Which gear is this? The original didn't have the step and was shorter I believe.
     

     
    Lots of good stuff
     

     
    Came with a manual, tons of newsletters, the original color brochures, a sweet poster that I've never seen, and so far the coolest thing in the paperwork is the "Avid Year book" It has the history, all the AD's and 45 pages of all the tips from the Avid-COMM newsletters in one place.
     

     
    This has been on the wall of the barn since 1988
     

     

     

     
    I have a few things that I really want from this pile as well as my Dad. Once I get it all cleaned up and inventoried I will post a list of items that I will be trying to pass along.
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  20. EDMO added a post in a topic Looking for a good place to buy Aluminum   

    John scrounged around his old parts last year and found one piece of a Kitfox 5 Grove gear mount that I needed.
    EdmO
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  21. TJay added a post in a topic Looking for a good place to buy Aluminum   

    Oh yeah Ed, John said they do not really produce many parts for the early kitfoxes anymore. I asked him about the side mount brackets for the 582 to bolt up to a side rail mount, he said they stopped making that stuff. I think they really like the 912 these days.
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  22. TJay added a post in a topic Looking for a good place to buy Aluminum   

    ya know this is amazing I did look at those two webpages and found just what I needed for 42 bucks, but didn't buy it yet because I saw they had an eBay page so I followed the link.  Of course what I needed they didn't have listed but that got me to thinking, I have never looked at metals on eBay, So I typed in 6061-t6 .375 and 100s showed up all over just what I need.  Found a plate just my size under 5 bucks, now the trick here is,  I wonder if it really is 6061 t-6 because the cheap ones don't have a stamp on them but say there 6061 t6. the ones with a stamp are around 40 bucks. Makes a guy wonder doesn't it.
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  23. High Country added a post in a topic plastic leading edge   

    Ron, very nice work thanks for sharing. I like how you faired them back in at the tips. I was planning to use filler but your way seems much nicer.
     
    From what I've read from multiple sources the leading edge cuff's don't do much performance wise for the early under cambered airfoils but is supposed to be a little gain for the flat bottom airfoil. Regardless of the performance gains or lack there of I think it makes the wing look nicer and is protection for the spar should you bump it into a hanger door frame or something. just my .02 I'm planning to glue them on to my already finished wings this summer and just wrap a piece of tape over them and paint. 
     
    -Robert-
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  24. EDMO added a post in a topic Looking for a good place to buy Aluminum   

    Tjay,
    What about calling Kitfox and see if they will sell you that aluminum plate - might be cheaper than buying the material and getting it machined? But then again, its Kitfox!
    EDMO
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  25. C5Engineer added a post in a topic Bush gear springs   

    Ron did the rubber donuts on his Magnum
     
    http://www.avidfoxflyers.com/index.php?/topic/1515-magnums-with-airdale-bush-gear/?hl=magnum#entry10586
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