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EDMO added a post in a topic turning
What kind of master cylinders do you have? If you have Matco 4 or 5 series, Matco sells a sleeve kit to reduce your bore from 5/8 to 1/2 inch, and increase your braking by about 56%.
ED in MO
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lakertreetopflyer added a post in a topic turning
Great Idea
I will try just redrilling holes inboard on the tailwheel bracket first,but may try yours also.As far as the brakes go,the guy I got it from had put large tires and wheels on this and the stock brakes will not work.So he put on those black max brakes.I just cant get enough leverage on the pedals.I even extended the tabs on the pedals and still barely any brakes.Am thinking of rigging some kind of heel brake .......should be able to get more pressure that way.
Brian
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akflyer added a post in a topic turning
I took some 1"X .125" flat bar and cut it 3" longer than the horns on the rudder. I bolted it to the rudder horn, then drilled holes on the outboard ends to go to the tailwheel chains. Gave me all the throw I needed to turn tight. Use your brakes to to unlock the tailwheel and get it to swivel. I have my CG at 19" when I am on wheels so I have alot of pressure on my tailwheel too. You can either go out on the rudder horns or in on the tailwheel arm, either way should do what you need.
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BryceKat added a post in a topic turning
Brian,
I always give full down elevator to make a tight turn because I have cg at 15 in which puts a lot of weight on tail wheel. Good luck, Bryce
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lakertreetopflyer added a topic in Avidfoxflyers General Hangar
turningI finally got to taxi my new to me MK 4 yesterday.Problem is this thing takes a half a football field to make a turn at slow speeds.I am going to try moving the spring inboard in the tailwheel lever and maybe shorten the rudder stops........this plane does have the airdale wide bungee gear
Any one have any input.
Brian
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TheDeltaFox added a post in a topic Wire feed welding
Go hard core and use an oxy acetylene rig like I did. Sure it may be the slowest of all forms of welding but it makes a darn good fusion. I welded up some scrap 4130 tubes I had and then crushed them in a vice and bent them over with a hammer. Even a shitty oxy weld is incredibly strong. I guess it should be cause you're melting the two tubes together and adding a little filler.
Although to admit a silly mistake, when I was making my all lexan doors I broke the handle while adjusting it. Adjusting it with a pry bar and a bit of attitude. I had no choice but to weld and being the optimist decided to weld with the lexan on the door.
I surrounded the area with scrap lexan and sheet metal then ATTEMPTED to weld fast. It was at that time that I was wishing I had a MIG rig for small little jobs like that. I now have a nice little painted white square in the corner of the lexan at the door handle. Surprisingly though no one has noticed that one of the doors has that white patch. I angled it to make it look like it was on purpose. But now, don't we all have those fun little spots on our planes.
Darcy
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EDMO added a post in a topic KITFOX 1 FOR SALE
Sent you a message on this site.
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ED in MO
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Twister added a post in a topic KITFOX 1 FOR SALE
Can anybody update me on this? I'm looking for an Avid or Kitfox in flying condition, but if re-covering is all that is needed, this one might bear looking at. I've been having a lot of trouble getting advertisers to respond or when they do, stay in touch long enough to close a deal. One on barnstormers turned out to have a broken fuselage member, but when I inquired further about the details, the guy mysteriously shut down on me and didn't return calls or emails. Nice guy too. I hope he's ok.
Here's my email for anyone who wants to contact me directly: landrest@cox.net
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akflyer added a post in a topic Member Reputation
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EDMO added a post in a topic overheating... again
At least he made it to 4th street. I was always worried when taking off north at Merrill - Glen Hwy usually too packed with cars to make a landing on it north - then there is Cook Inlet, and I cant swim - too cold anyway.
Saw photo of Talketna river last night - BAD!
Thanks, Ed
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EDMO added a post in a topic Member Reputation
Thanks for the info ***Randy***
Yes, I know you are one of those "bi-engine flyers"!
ED in MO
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SuberAvid added a post in a topic Member Reputation
All,
Great answers. Bob's had me laughing out loud.
Hey, I fly chainsaws and heavy iron.
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SuberAvid added a post in a topic Member Reputation
Hey Ed, sorry about that response on the fuel pumps. I sent it to you but I must have messed something up if you didn't get it.
On my plane I put my fuel pumps under the passenger seat. There is quite a bit of room for them there in the Avid+ since it was set up to have the mixer under the pilot seat. I ran the gas line out of the vertical header tank that sits behind teh passenger seat, into an in line filter, then into the fuel flow sender, then teed the line and ran it to each fuel pump (in parallel) which also have in line filters. I also pulled a line out ahead of the fuel pumps that runs to my primer. Downstream from the pumps I teed the line back into a single line and ran it along the floor and through my firewall, up the firewall, then teed the line to run to each carb and to the fuel pressure gage. I didn't run a gas colator because being a tail dragger, the lowest point on my system is at the bottom of my header tank which acts as my gas colator since the outlet line is an inch or more above the bottom. The whole system slopes back to the header tank. I put a curtis drain valve on the bottom of my header tank that sticks out of the bottom of the fusalage so I can stick it when I preflight.
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SuberAvid added a post in a topic overheating... again
Ed,
Google the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman newspaper for Sept 25th. There is a story there of a couple of planes and hunters camping with their planes on a gravel bar, that had to be rescued by helicopter out of the Talkeetna River. They got caught in the flood and couldn't get off before it overran them. One of the guys, Paul Woodward, is a buddy that I worked with. He just got done totally rebuilding and upgrading his plane (the one half under water) a few years ago. That plane has had a rough life; before the rebuild he was taking off out of Merill Feild and his engine quit. He made a forced landing on 4th street in Anchorage. He survived it but the plane was in bad shape as you can imagine after taking a lot of power lines with it on the way down.
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SuberAvid added a post in a topic overheating... again
Well Congrats again Leni, it sounds like you made a wise decision. The trouble with us guys is that wise decisions are pretty rare when those strong natural urges kick in.... oh, I'm talking about flying of course.
I know what you mean on the plane; I asked him to give me a price on teh floats as well if he wanted to sell them separately. They would work on my MKIV when I get it back flying.
That sounds good on fixing/retrieving the plane; let me know whatever I can do when you decide to do it.
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EDMO added a post in a topic overheating... again
Can you fit a redrive and motor mount for some other engine to it? Saw a Can-Am with vertical twin 1000cc - 90 hp, I think, and was wondering what rpm it runs - maybe 4 cycle? - then, you are on your own with redrive, etc.
The 800 sounds interesting, and powerful - hope it works - you could start a new club!
Praying that my daughters in Anchorage dont have to put floats on Durango.
Keep me posted on weather - If I wasnt a dinosaur, could probably get it on here - but tried once and damned weather channel was so aggrevating I deleted it after about 500 tries - well, after grandson came and did it.
ED in MO
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akflyer added a post in a topic overheating... again
Ed,
I have an Arctic Cat 800 engine that if fuel injected I have been tinkering with to go in the Avid. I can loaf the engine along at 120 HP on take off if I run it at the same RPM limits as I do the 582. (6800 max versus the 8200 max that we run it in the sleds) Basically I am looking at double the HP and double the TQ at take off RPM
yep, another big storm is headed in and just hitting the peninsula now. Kenai is reporting 22 gusting 39 and it is spose to hit 65-70 in the next few hrs and getting worse.
The Kenai river is well above flood stage and rising. The boat launch and raised walk way at the cooper landing bridge is under water now. 1/4 mile from my house its flooded back 300 - 500 yrds off the river about 3' deep.
Skwentna is only reporting 7 MPH winds right now so the plane should be OK, the last 2 storms have spared that area all the wind. When it was blowing 80 in Anchorage it only got up to 20 out at Skwenta so I have my fingers crossed again..
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EDMO added a post in a topic Safety, It can hurt you
The most important part of safety is to remember what you said just before she whacked you in the head with the shovel!
ED in MO
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akflyer added a topic in Avidfoxflyers General Hangar
Safety, It can hurt youA little write up I just did for the safety meetings here at work..
Safety, it can hurt you!
Ok, so now I have your attention.. Just how is that I can say that safety can hurt you? Well it can happen very easy if you do not do what we have been having preached to us day in and day out here at Kuparuk. Read on to see what I mean.
A few weeks ago I found myself in an unfamiliar situation. I was WORKING! Ok, so it was not so unfamiliar, but it is true not very often do I find myself with a shovel in my hand, heck, that is why we had kids right?? So lets set the stage. I flew out to a buddies lodge to do a job I figured would take 2 days tops to jack up a cabin that was sinking into the dirt and get it leveled up. Turns out that just like we have happen here, the job just continued to fight me. Jacks not working properly, horrible weather, back hoe not wanting to start after sitting for 6 yrs etc. Next thing I know I find myself way behind and 5 days into the 2 day job.
The task at hand was to jack the cabin up, dig out where the support pilings are until we hit solid ground then back fill the holes with gravel that we had to haul with the 4 wheeler from a hole I had dug out in the woods ¼ mile away. Simple basic task right??? What could possibly go wrong… right??? one day I will learn to stop asking that question!! After two days of hauling gravel that was dug from a pit with the backhoe, then loading the gravel into the trailer by hand shoveling we were getting worn out. We were about 15 loads into the job when the nice sunny weather turned on us. In a 3 minute period we went from bright sunshine, to a Louisiana down pour. My fiancé and I started really hustling on the shoveling to get the trailer loaded and headed back to the lodge. She was standing on one side of the trailer and up on the gravel pile a little bit while I was on the other side of the trailer with one foot on the edge of the 10’ deep hole I had dug, shoveling furiously from the same gravel pile. Remember, we had done this at least 15 times in the previous two days! Well as we were working along in perfect rhythm my mind wandered around to SAFETY! No joke, as I am still shoveling I start to think about just how lucky we were to not have hit each other as the shovel heads are swinging back and forth in very close proximity to part of me that I am kind of fond of (my face). The instant that I think to myself how lucky we really were to not have hit each other I find myself seeing stars and getting a lesson on mean ole Mr. gravity. A few seconds later I wake up to my head feeling like I just went a few rounds with Mike Tyson and my fiancé standing over the hole in a panic. This goof ball wanted me to jump right up and let her know I was OK. I just wanted to lay there and try to remember my name! Have you ever had a head wound? No matter how slight they may be boy can those things bleed! All she can see is me rolling around in the bottom of a hole with my hand over my eye and blood running, not dripping, running through my fingers and down my arm. Yes, she was panicked! I am going to end the story here… Well, no I cant stop here, we really need to back it up about 12 hrs..The previous evening we are laying in bed and she starts giggling. I asked her what was so funny and she tells me that the big hole I had dug with the hoe, out in the woods 100 miles from nowhere, looked like a mass grave she has seen on some show. Since this gal has every episode of CSI (Ney York and Miami), Bones and any other murder / detective show ever made memorized I got a bit freaked out!
So here we are, I am laying in the bottom of this “grave†in the middle of nowhere and she is standing over the top with a shovel in her hand. I kid you not, had one speck of dirt come into that hole I am sure I would be infront of a grand jury right about now wearing a cute yellow suit sporting a not so comfortable pair of nickel bracelets! As it turned out there was a happy ending with me patching myself up with butterflys and super glue and going back to work after I had a few ahh, medicinal beverages!
OK where did I go wrong?? They preach safety to us here right?? I was thinking about safety when I got hit right?? WHY. Because I did not do the other thing they preach here, and that is FOCUS ON YOUR TASK AT HAND! Folks, I can’t emphasize enough just how important it is that we focus on the task you are doing, right that second. If you happen to find your mind wandering get the bad word out of the line of fire. Step back and remove yourself from becoming a hazard, then put on your safety thinking cap and get a look at the job and make whatever changes you need to complete the job safely!
It was not until later that night as we were sitting in the lounge that it hit me. Crap, I flew us out here, there are no other planes around and the cell coverage here has been down for a week due to weather. What if I had not had the extensive first aide kit in the plane that I keep in there? What if I had laid my leg open with the chainsaw earlier in the day? There would have been no way for her to have gotten me to medical attention had I really done something stupid (ok, more stupid than I normally do).
That brings us around to something that is relatively new here at Kuparuk.. Planning! Make sure that just as we plan our work here, when we are at home plan you play time too! Do you have a way to call for help if you need to? Do you have a good first aide kit / survival gear with you when you are out in remote areas? Make sure that you cover your bases at home just as well as we do here at work!
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EDMO added a post in a topic overheating... again
What a cutie! Makes me wish I was 50 years younger - But then, every morning, noon, and night, I wish I was 50 years younger, and still in Alaska!
Lucky You! Congrats.
Now, what is an 800 - and what about all this flooding and a cat 3 hurricane storm heading for Alaska?
ED in MO
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EDMO added a post in a topic Member Reputation
Jolly Good Show Leni,
Unfortunately, my old mind just cant remember all those cute charactors, so my vocabulary is limited.
ED in MO
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akflyer added a post in a topic Member Reputation
I forgot to mention.. I am damn glad I had it dissabled on me, cause I know if anyone ever really met me, after a good couple dozen drinks my reputation would be in the vastly negative numbers
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akflyer added a post in a topic Member Reputation
Summed it up pretty good there Mr.!
There are alot that are not really "up" on the socially accepted use of the emoticons so I will give another quick run down.
If a comment is followed by a or any form of smiley face, that should be taken as "dude, I think its funny as hell n no worries"
If the comment is followed by that is our lil chug that not all sites share. that signifies that all in the comment is good, and maybe we, or I am just hacking on you in good natured banter. It is kinda the get outta jail free card. Tell someone they are acting like a jackass and them put a next to it and we all know that its OK, you yourself have been a jackass more than once and you are qualified to make said statement through your own personal learning experience!
Now, if you are really acting like a jack ass and we dont approve, you get the VERY seldom used :nc: That stands for NO CHUG this means your a jackass straight up and should stop cause you are crossing the line with what ever you said.
If someone makes a statement, or a poke and you are trying to start something with them (just a lil fun), not a full on "i am gonna meet you half way and kick yer a$$" you toss in the This lil guy is just saying, hey yall, I just started some shit so now I am going to sit back, have a beer n some popcorn and watch the show
If it is something we have gone over a million times, and we are not telling you something that common sense should have jumped up and kicked you in the teeth about you may get the yeah dude, you really brought that OLD news to the table, come up with something better.. It may be used in a sentence like this.... "What, the installed weight of your super duper all aluminum n titanium soobie came in at an installed weight of over 230#" This could be followed by a and will most often be followed with a or a and just so you know that we were hacking on ya, I will even toss in the good ole
I think most of the other ones are pretty self explanatory!
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EDMO added a post in a topic Member Reputation
Yess, we know about those sites where the "Politicly Incorrect" are quickly banished - where you cant say "another brand or design", or that forbidden word, "MOD"!
I say the wrong thing sometimes, but try to apologize if I think I have offended someone.
My old skin is too tough to be burned easily.
I've learned a lot listening to all the "chain-saw drivers"
And appreciate you all putting up with a few "real-heavy-engine drivers".
I think we are all on here to learn and to teach and share for the joy of building and flying.
If anyone feels better by putting minuses by my name, then have at it.......Glad my XXXs arent on here!
I appreciate all of the members comments and sharing info, even if we dont agree sometimes.
Thats the end of my sermon for today ......
ED in MO
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akflyer added a post in a topic Wire feed welding
You can turn the flow up on the gas if you have to hold the cup further away from your work due to the clusters if you need to. Use ER-60 or ER-70 wire in .023" and you should be fine. I welded up alot of tabs and plates on my plane using GMAW (mig) If your heat and wire feed speed are set right, you should be able to just weld away without trying to do a bunch of spot welds (unless you are welding a bunch of long runs of sheet metal, then you have to worry about warping) . Get the heat and speed set on some scrap tubes then go to town on it. Starting out with your gas flow around 15-25 CFH and you should be good to go!
I too would say use solid wire. While flux core may be more forgiving, it will also dig deeper and increase your chances of burn through.
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