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  1. C5Engineer added a post in a topic Floor board   

    Mine is thin wood. Not sure what type it is it was in it when I got the plane. It's in 3 different pieces with the seams running nose to tail. I varnishe it to make it purty.
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  2. rlmankins added a topic in Avid Flyer General Hangar   

    Floor board
    What is the best material for floorboard for cabin. Only need 34x15 (oversize). Aluminum or wood.

    Thanks
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  3. Av8r3400 added a post in a topic Bush Gear guys I need a favor!   

    Looks like somebody over on the antique Yahoo Avid list is going to start copying the Airdale gear...
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  4. Av8r3400 added a post in a topic Airventure 2013   

    Sorry guys!
     
    I spoke to Brett over the weekend.  He is going to do a lunch on Thursday.  I kinda talked him into it...
     
    Also, the McBeans are having a dinner on Thursday at their booth on the north end with the Rans guys.
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  5. Bandit added a post in a topic Airventure 2013   

    I guess no picnic this year?
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  6. Av8r3400 added a post in a topic Help, I need a coolant tank <2" deep!   

    I'll show you my setup at OSH if you can wait that long. It's one of the previously linked to us plastics tank.
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  7. Av8r3400 added a post in a topic Naked Avid   

    Pm me your email
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  8. EDMO added a post in a topic Mk IV wing-fold time   

    All good info for a novice like me - Someday I am going to write a book about my lack of trailer education cost me a bundle, a wrecked plane, and almost lost a future wife, and maybe my life!
    Too much to put on here!
    Thanks again.
    EDMO
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  9. akflyer added a post in a topic Fookididdy FookFook that was an exciting landing!   

    The ole joint jigger is a life saver if you know you will be doing lots of these cuts.. few different size hole saw's and your golden!  The calculator is sweet though!
     

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  10. dholly added a post in a topic Fookididdy FookFook that was an exciting landing!   

    "...break your cable...", HaHa
    Fookididdy FookFook bite your tongue!
     
    FYI to all, if you ever need to notch round tubing there is an EAA Hints for Hombuilders video by Earl Luce on how to do this with a hand grinder. Workable but kinda rough so I used the Tube Coping Calculator on www.metalgeek.com. The calculator allows you to enter all sorts of tubing dia. and angle variables, along with offsets if needed for different dia. tubing intersections, and print out a paper pattern with a cut line to wrap around your tubes for perfect coping every time. Very cool and eliminates a bunch or guesswork or trial and error hacking, as even simple 90* degree same size tube coping requires an interesting notch (you can see in my pics). 
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  11. dholly added a post in a topic Help, I need a coolant tank <2" deep!   

    Thanks for the link, that led to a few new ATV replacement tanks I hadn't seen yet. Wish the listers would include measures for us Rube Goldberg retrofitters.
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  12. rlmankins added a post in a topic Mk IV wing-fold time   

    My trailer has a torsion axle so it is very smooth. The mains are loaded by 2 small ramps, mine are attached to trailer when not in use. Tires roll up ramp to a small tire sized box with a tire stop. Throw a tie down over each front axle. Winch holds tailwheel in place. Fold wings, you are done. Trailer is so long that it tows great. Have to be careful turning because of the turning radius of the trailer. I am planing on mounting a rack for gas cans and my spare tire. When I tow it with my jeep I need all airplane stuff on trailer, no room in jeep.
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  13. rlmankins added a post in a topic Naked Avid   

    Could you give him my email address and have him contact me. Part of the reason I am doing this is for our local EAA young eagles program. We are trying to have a demonstration aircraft for shows, parades and education. Thought that actually seeing how an airplane's control works might attract some interest. Wow factor is important for this kind of thing.
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  14. dholly added a post in a topic Anyone have a 912ul VDO oil pressure sender failure?   

    If it was a gradual drop it happened over only a few secs. I was watching the gauges very closely as I am also chasing a high (higher than I want, anyway) engine temp and I had made a couple changes since the last flight. And yes I did chase the wiring, at least as good as possible without breaking open the bundles. No anomolies noted. I actually have all of my oil pressure sender and temp wire leads in corregated flexible tubing for chaff/heat protection and zip tied for minimal movement. I have the standard Westach 4-way and the Oil, EGT and CHT temps remained relatively stable once I dropped the nose level and turned for home so I think the pressure sender crapped out. Lots of chatter about limited life due to engine vibration and even a remote 'kit' to locate off engine on the firewall.. $170, gulp! I did read a comment somewhere that if you disconnect the sender leads and the gauge then reads 50psi it is in all probability a sender failure, that info supposedly gained form a call to the manufacturer.
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  15. EDMO added a post in a topic Mk IV wing-fold time   

    Thanks Joey - all helpful info - I have only trailered twice - one was wrecked before trailering, and the other during trailering - Alaska highway potholes just too rough for my tiedowns - now rebuilding.
    EDMO
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  16. C5Engineer added a post in a topic Mk IV wing-fold time   

    It has ramps that originally folded straight up in the air on a hinge. I didn't like that so I took them off and set them up with some pip pins. I just take them off and throw them in the truck once loaded. The end of the channel where the tailwheel sits has a crank handle like on a boat trailer. It has a 1/8" cable that you attach to the TW spring and just crank her on up. You can see in the second pic I discovered that my new big Matco TW wouldn't fit in the slot anymore. I had to tie the tail down solid which I really didn't want to do but I was in a pinch and had to do what was necessary to get the plane home. The trailer is leaf sprung and the mains can move around quite a bit so I don't think too awful much road roughness was transferred. I've since modded the trailer. With my wide gear on there's only 1" to spare on either side of the deck so I'm going to weld up some angle iron on the sides just to make sure there's no way a tire can jump off the edge. I use some 2x4's covered in carpet with bolts on either end and wingnuts as gust locks for the controls. I put one on either side of the elevator and one on the upper part of the rudder. Of course I have all the factory wing supports too. I use nylock nuts on all that stuff because I rarely tow. The little bars that hold the wings back you damn sure don't want coming loose. I know of two people that have wrecked their planes towing them and both were when a wing came loose going down the hwy. The whole trailer is light enough to move around by hand and like I said it tows like a dream. You kinda have to keep your eye on it because it's pretty wide but overall it tows easy.
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  17. EDMO added a post in a topic Man killed by falling cow   

    I watched this on the news - good animation - terrible outcome-
    Moral of story: Don't build your house so that a cow can get on the roof- or, build a cow-proof roof!
    EDMO
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  18. EDMO added a post in a topic Mk IV wing-fold time   

    Thanks Joey - That is a lot different than I had imagined - No need to show it empty.
    The only other one I had seen was like two little hinged pads that could be lifted somehow after you put the plane's wheels on them - hard for me to describe. Believe the planes wheels sat outside of the width of the trailer wheels - didn't care for that.
    How do you get the plane up on the platform? park the trailer in a ditch? Tilt or lower platform?
    I am totally new at the trailer part of flying. Looks like yours has the weight almost over the trailer wheels?
    And this is what the factory sold? Does Kitfox have one like yours?
    EDMO
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  19. akflyer added a post in a topic Anyone have a 912ul VDO oil pressure sender failure?   

    Was it a slow drop to Zero or an instantaneous drop?  The slow drop would pucker me right up, the sudden drop, just make me keep an eye out for a good place to land if need be.
     
    Like Larry said, check the connections, maybe pull the sender and see if there is a blockage of some sort in it.  Do you have an oil temp gauge? 
     

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  20. High Country added a post in a topic Help, I need a coolant tank <2" deep!   

    I didn't see the size given anywhere but this http://www.ebay.com/itm/Chinese-Go-Kart-Buggie-Liquid-Coolant-Tank-250cc-COOLSTER-6250DBL-Parts-/181166459731?hash=item2a2e5ccb53&vxp=mtr looks pretty small you might shoot them an e-mail and find out
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  21. C5Engineer added a post in a topic Mk IV wing-fold time   

    Ed I don't have any of it empty right now on my Puter but here's a couple of it loaded.
     

     

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  22. Mendlerr added a post in a topic Prop Problems   

     
    Funny you should say that, an airplane landed just a few minutes up the road from me last night.  He ran out of fuel on his way to KHKY and landed on 321 by following the headlights of a few cars. 
     
    They ended up closing the road and towing it to the airport with a wrecker, which I'm sure damaged the plane which is unfortunate, it was a perfect landing.
     
    At first when 5 blackhawks flew low over my house I thought they were going to just pick it up and move it.  That woulda been a sight to see
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  23. EDMO added a post in a topic Mk IV wing-fold time   

    Thanks Joey,
    Any chance of seeing a photo or two of your loaded and empty trailer?
    EDMO
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  24. Av8r3400 added a post in a topic Anyone have a 912ul VDO oil pressure sender failure?   

    Doug, is it safe to assume that you chased the leads from gage to sender?

    I've actually had that happen on several gages on my plane and it wound up being a loose connections.

    Right now my egt is giving me fits. (Luckily it is mostly unnecessary on a 912.)
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  25. C5Engineer added a topic in Hangar Talk   

    Man killed by falling cow
    You know you done pissed off the good lord when this happens!
     
     
    http://www.examiner.com/article/cow-falls-on-man-cow-falls-killing-man-third-cow-falling-incident-for-area
     


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