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larr added a topic in Avidfoxflyers General Hangar
Avionic Specialist?I am tring to use a set, of earbud type ear piece with normal aircraft radios. I have the ear piece speaker at the correct impedience, but the cord has the standard 3mm plug requiring an adapter to the 1/4" jack. I have tried 2 or 3 adaptors from radio shack, but I get static and electric noise in the ear piece. I have a headset that has a 3mm jack to plug in a music source into it. When I use the earbud through this jack it works fine. I would like to wear the earbuds as a stand alone. Any ideas to get rid of the static/electric noise? Should the jack be insolated, or....? Please be very basic, as I am like SGT Shultz..... I know nothing!
Thanks,
larry
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C150L added a post in a topic Hysol 9460 source
The folks at RS Hughes were great to deal with. This epoxy made it here rapidly. Too bad it's 100 miles away or I could have saved 419 shipping. Thanks for the tip.
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C5Engineer added a post in a topic Norcal West Circuit Flying
Couple more pics my buddy took
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EDMO added a post in a topic overheating... again
Saw a little bit on flooding in Talketna and also Seward, but not enough to get an idea of how bad it might be in your area, if at all. October snows should be coming soon. Take your broom.
ED in MO
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EDMO added a post in a topic Sandblast, wire brush, or soda blast ????
And that is probably why my KF1 broke AT THE WELDS when it was wrecked.
ED in MO
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akflyer added a post in a topic Norcal West Circuit Flying
Looks like a damn good morning!
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C5Engineer added a topic in Avid fox flyers pics and vids
Norcal West Circuit FlyingWe had an awesome morning on the West Circuit this morning. We had 5 of us at one point and landed quite a few different places. The conditions were amazing. Great group great fun!!
Watching the sun come up over Lake Berryessa as I was waiting for the gang to arrive.
Rob on short final
We will make Scott a backcountry pilot yet!
This spot was pretty cool
Rob departing
Pacos S7
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Av8r3400 added a post in a topic Sandblast, wire brush, or soda blast ????
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They don't do any. And they also <<GASP>> MIG weld all the airframes without a post heat treat...
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akflyer added a post in a topic overheating... again
The trail that goes by the pond I am on does not really go anwhere other that to the other cabin on the other larger lake. It is still a fly in only access. The guys I know up here that have planes will look out for each other. There are of course the few guys that will strip a bird in a heartbeat, but most times, they dont get the blessing of having the cops pick them up....
It is looking good for getting the bird back soon!
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EDMO added a post in a topic Sandblast, wire brush, or soda blast ????
Did a lot of blasting in my day too, both on aluminum and steel in certified repair shops, but the soda stuff is unknown territory for me.
How many thousands of antique steel-framed planes do you think are flying today after being sand blasted or blasted with aluminum oxide?
AND, has anyone ever checked on Kitfox and Avid, to see how they blast the frames before painting/powder coating?
ED in MO
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marshawk added a post in a topic Battery for ea81
Perfect, thanks for the reply guys , I'm not exactly sure were its going to end up yet but want to get a decent battery to start with
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EDMO added a post in a topic overheating... again
Like any other place in the world: SOME DO - SOME DONT !!!!!
ED in MO
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EDMO added a post in a topic radiator
Never heard of any engine needing a belly rad and 2 cheek rads together. Believe there must be something wrong with system or engine.
ED in MO
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akflyer added a post in a topic radiator
Alot of people had issues with the in-cowl radiators. I think the biggest contributor to that was not using good baffeling to direct the airflow over the radiators. The quick fix was to toss a belly mount radiator on it and forget it. Thats what I did! and many many others.
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EDMO added a post in a topic My old flying machine
"NO OLD BOLD PILOTS": I was one of the "bulletproof youths" in my day - But the day I saw a PPC driver get blown 200 feet off of the runway, and end up with his legs inserted into a hanger tin roof, I decided that "lighter-than-planes" was not for me.
Liked your brave photos tho.
ED in MO
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EDMO added a post in a topic radiator
Brian,
Hope you get your cooling problems solved - You might check out your water pump - some of these have plastic impellers that can slip on the driveshaft and not pump the amount required - also the thermostat.
Now for the (maybe?) bad news - My book says that heater cores are usually denser than rads, and operate in a "blower-forced-air" condition, where the rad is designed to let air flow thru it easier, like airstream air.
Good Luck,
ED in MO
P.S. You might take your hoses off and do a flow test on your main and cheek rad, or have a rad shop test them. Vinegar will eat away the calcium, or have them boiled out at a shop.
ONLY DISTILLED WATER SHOULD BE USED IN RAD SYSTEMS (WITH CORRECT ALUMINUM ANTIFREEZE 50/50 MIX) Most of our water is loaded with calcium from the limestone in the earth.
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dholly added a post in a topic My old flying machine
I love that feet crossed pic!
When I picked up my Avid Mk-IV kit, the seller and I took his J3 up for some Cub fun and a few wing overs on a pretty gusty day. We were #2 on the grass at Warrenton, VA behind two guys in a PPC who were having a devil of a time getting a ground roll. Every time they got strapped in, the wind would flip and bugger up the chute... Pilot would unstrap, run around to straighten everything then climb back in and buckle up... musta done it a dozen times. We actually shut down and waited before they let us play though. Dunno what the max winds are for those things but we both thought it looked like a lot of work. They were nowhere to be seen when we returned, no idea if they packed it in or finally got off and were blown into the next county!
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dholly added a post in a topic overheating... again
More options always sounds good! Although, I hope it doesn't work to your disadvantage... you know, make it easier for someone else to come in and clean you out? I know several of the fly-in fish camps I've been to in northern Ontario and Quebec have been broken into a lot. It's not a take only what you need in an emergency to survive and leave a thank you note kind of thing. Usually boat motors and booze get jacked and only minimal damage to gain entry. Just a too-hard-to-pass-up crime of opportunity with no one around I guess. I hope folks in the AK bush have better morals and leave your stuff alone till you can get back in there.
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akflyer added a post in a topic overheating... again
My brother did an overflight today and the bird is sitting pretty just where I left it. She survived the wind storms just fine! Another bit of good news. There is a lake about 2 miles away with a runway next to it and a 4 wheeler trail from that lake to the pond that I am on so it should be a pretty easy hike in to make repairs and hopefully get it out of there in a couple weeks! Neither of us saw the trail as it was grown over, but with the changing seasons and the leaves falling off it opened up and he saw it today.
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bowfish added a post in a topic My old flying machine
Years ago I was fortunate enough to have a friend whom got me interested in PCCs, purchased one and it was a blast except for limited days of flying.
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akflyer added a post in a topic My old flying machine
Sweet pics! Anything that gets a guy in the air is of great interest to me! I was going to buy a PPC at one time, but with the normal winds we have it would have been flying backwards 80% of the time
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akflyer added a post in a topic Sandblast, wire brush, or soda blast ????
How does the soda do on powder coat? When I did mine, the powder coat was a real bitch to blast off. I ended up using a wire wheel to knock it down, then blasted over that to give me a good anchor profile.
Sounds like a kick ass car restoration project, post up some pics! Most guys on here are into more than just airplanes so we like to see pictures of all the toys
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John_L_Seagull added a post in a topic Sandblast, wire brush, or soda blast ????
I've used Soda blasting quite a bit over the years
Soda blasting can be done dry or wet
It is the best "None abrasive" way of blasting anything,
to remove paint, corrosion, biological contaminants, oil, grease, carbon, and many other coatings
Soda Blasting uses compressed air to propel the media onto the area to be cleaned.
When the media comes in contact with the contaminant on the substrate,
the sodium bicarbonate particles explode.
The resulting release of energy disrupts the contaminate surface leaving the substrate completely unaffected
Other processes,
such as sand blasting,
damage the underlying surfaces.
They tend to cause “oil-canning†which is a destructive warping or bending of the metal substrates
it also cause heat/friction which warps metal and steel
Soda blasting usually includes having to use vinegar and water to clean up the extra soda bicarbonate up
it chemically reacts with the soda
Then the part or parts need to be heated up,to evaporate the water so no rust will form on the cleaned up parts
I've soda blasted steel and aluminum,rubber,grease etc.
it will clean up grease,make old rubber moldings look new
It will free up seized rusted parts,bushings etc.
If used accordingly it is an impressive medium for blasting
Used in Corvette shops for blasting
it can blast of each layer of paint and or primer....one layer at a time
It is used to remove spray paint graffiti
it can remove spray paint from Vinyl siding on a house without damaging the vinyl siding
IMHO
It is the least destructive way of blasting anything,
and is very versatile in that it can blast steel,aluminum,glass,rubber and grease
It is however,very expensive to use
My last project used about 100 dollars and hour worth of Soda
and I spent almost 5 thousand dollars on just the soda itself
May sound expensive,
but on a car worth almost a hundred grand when finished... it is a small price to pay
and saves so much work compared to using sand or any other way of cleaning parts for paint
even sandblasting causes major work getting things ready for paint after blasting
My last project was a 1961 Thunderbird ,retractable rag-top
The ragtop assembly was totally seized with rust(numerous bushings etc.)
soda blasting freed up the parts like brand new(the top now folds and opens perfectly and is ready for paint)
The front end was dropped out and soda blasted,grease and all
the front end components were perfectly clean and paint and "Grease" free
ready for primer and paint,other than replacing a few parts of coarse on the front end
The whole frame and body was separated,61 TBird is uni-body
frame and body was soda blasted
I've blasted with all kinds of sand,glass beads,crushed walnut shells(excellent on aluminum)
and soda blasting can replace all medium mentioned above
Other than it's cost for the actual Soda to blast with
it is by far the best blasting material out there
Soda blasting is definitely worth looking into
I plan on re-skinning an Avid Mark IV this coming winter,
and I will be soda blasting the entire frame and wings for paint before reskinning
It will get into ever nook and cranny there is,
and the vinegar will clean it out from ever nook and cranny
once the vinegar does not chemically react with the soda no longer it is ready to wash thoroughly and dry with heat
Then it's basically ready for etching and primer
I'm speaking from over 30 years of restoring experience, using ever blasting medium known
but of coarse... this is all just IMHO
ps:
Thought it might be worth mentioning...
Dry Ice blasting is suppose to be even better than Soda blasting
But I have no experience using dry ice to blast with so never mentioned it
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C5Engineer added a topic in Avidfoxflyers General Hangar
My old flying machineCame across some pictures of my old Powered parachute that I owned for 8 years and put nearly 600 hrs in. Sure had a blast in that thing. Take off and sit back and relax and enjoy the ride at 26mph. You haven't flown until you've done a touch and go on the top of a big rigs trailer or a bail of hay!!
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EDMO added a post in a topic Cowl to windshiled fit problem
Have you considered cutting the flange part wide enough so you could move it forward and rivet it back to the cowling? Underneath & blended?
ED in MO
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