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Thanks for posting Joey. I've printed and bound them. Good stuff within.

10'000 feet ? Silly little dim dem Typical knows nothing ,but acts like a authority , ps we only listen to Oreilly

PM Sent This stuff is going on Barnstormers next week guys so if you think you can use any of this let me know soon.

just pm me if someone wants this thing

... And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what you call a fly-by trolling. First post spewing lib-tard talking points.

Leni, I guess you know your website has made it when that happens! Congratulations!

Lol. Everyone knows Al Gore invented and still owns the Internet.

Doug,

Thanks for the link! Ya, that is crazy! I had this happen in my Starduster Too, but luckily not in a crosswind landing!

My rudder pedals are a little different in size, but I think I will weld a gusset, maybe rectangular, from the rudder post all the way down to the control tube. Mine have a small gusset at the base, I wonder why they didn't put one at the top? The force is the same...

I found a picture, but it is a little blurry. You can see that the PO put turn buckles on the rudder attach point. Those are coming off and I will look at using the original straps and a Clevis pin to attach so that I will get a little more clearance from the fiberglass sides.

Thanks,

Ron

Wouldnt it be something if anyone who criticized the move knew anything except what Rush Limbaugh told them to think? I am amazed that adults who have bumper stickers trying to keep Government out of their lives now mess their pants because Government is trying to get out of part of their lives. Make up your freeking minds - if you have freeking minds.

Now ask yourself- who "controls" the internet? Do you know? Who will in the future? While your conservative republicans try to make net neutrality go away, so you can watch big business take over, you bitch about a private commission giving out URLs. Yep, backs up what I've known about conservatives - too much time above 10,000 feet without oxygen.

Dan I will send you a PM.

I could use the MK4 Spinner and might be interested in the motor mount and firewall. Also, there is actually a cost effective way to ship the doors.

Thanks,

Dan

Having just spent a couple hours going thru it all, I can second that. What a tremendous resource to have all this info available, learned a lot, hanks Joey!

Skystar Service Letter #47 dated 8-22-95 re: Rudder Pedal Torque Tube Cracking was applicable to KF 1-4 and Classic 4.

Interestingly, my rudder pedal cracked at the joint of the rudder cable horn to vertical tube not at the torque tube to upright tube mentioned in the advisories.

I put pics here... http://www.avidfoxflyers.com/index.php?/topic/1781-fookididdy-fookfook-that-was-an-exciting-landing/?p=12439

I posted the PolyFiber covering estimate here... http://www.avidfoxflyers.com/index.php?/topic/1685-new-farbic-no-paint/?p=17338

Sorry to hear that, Glad you are ok. I also use full flaps on landing. If I am flying my Bandit at full gross I keep my final approach speed no lower than 55- 60. If I come in any slower than that my sink rate is super fast and If I misjudge my flare I am repairing the fuselage and installing new gear. I always give it some power right at flare out. I can fly my Bandit at 45 IAS, its done flying at anything lower than that. A light Avid glides like a rock, A heavy Avid glides like a Big rock.

Used the locktite. 500 trouble free hours since that happened.

Leni, did you give up on the spinner after that, or just religiously use the loctite?

Worthy note on the skull cap spinner... use blue locktite on the screw that holds it on... its a shitty thing when your flying along at 1000' fat dumb and happy and all of a sudden there is a hellacious loud thwack thwack thwack ting sound and you see something bounce off the ski and shoot over your left shoulder.... the quick trip over the city to the airport at the absolute minimum RPM you can sustain flight praying the blades dont start spitting off the hub is a real pisser of a flight.... The one and only time I had gotten in a hurry and did not use locktite on the spinner screw... wont be doing that again.

I also have one if Leni doesnt

2nd dibs?  I could use one too.

I also have one if Leni doesnt

I think I have a spare at the house.  I will look when I get home tomorrow night.

The back of the polyfiber manual has a table that lists the materials required for Avid / Kitfox. I don't have it handy at the moment though. But, a lot will depend on how you apply it (HVLP vs. conventional gun), how much sanding you do, etc. 

Buy the manual first and digest all the information.

WOW!! glad you are ok...! --- easy for us to say sitting from our computers, but slow speed banks should be corrected only with rudder, aileron will aggravate the stalled wing.

Ron,

The EFIS is have is the MGL Mini Extreme.  It's a very complete instrument, capable of providing information relating to your engine and flight way beyond my capability to fully understand all that I'm seeing.  Matt at MGL is one very helpful guy, and has been there for me every time I ran into something I didn't understand.  The thing I didn't do during the install was to carefully read and understand exactly what the paperwork was attempting to tell me.  I think I was overwhelmed by the sheer volumn of it, and as a result caused myself some problems.  When I used the recommended sending units, things worked like they were supposed to. Mixing senders from the engine manufacturer or ordered from Spruce don't always work.

I think, in my case, learning where to look on the instrument for the desired information is one of the challenges I've got to overcome.  I'm sure time will fix that.  

Jack

Wow! Good thing you looked in there! That is crazy!

Jack,

The plane looks awesome!!!

Which EFIS are you using?