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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?

Just got home from the airport. Got the gear switched over today to the heavier and taller gear. Now with the Matco tailwheel and the new gear it looks more like a real airplane. Did not have the right size allen wrench to finish the brakes. I did try taxing it around, but on the way back to the hanger I could not slow it down so I had to shut the engine down and push it back to the hanger. Those mechanical breaks do not seem like they do much until you do not have them. So I will wait until I finish the brakes before I fly. The little taxing I did seemed like I was not dragging my ass in the grass. It is more like my Bandit now. Only bad thing is now my skis will not work. I'll work on that this fall.

Now that definately makes it look better and I am sure it will land better too.  I would have been afraid to do a wheel landing on that stock gear.

Man that is a bummer.  It sounds like you had a lot of hard things around you so it is great that you didn't get hurt.  I agree, you have to get used to your own plane; mine stalls at 40 to 45 solo as well.  It is certainly not the same plane as Bandit's or Joey's.  I always use full flaps, 26 degrees, for landing and take off unless there is a lot of wind and it still has good roll control above the stall.  Mine doesn't tend to drop a wing but the primary way to control it in a stall is with rudder, and you don't notice that you are dropping at about 500 FPM unless you are close to the ground.  Sure hope you can find another project plane quickly to get it back in the air.

Here is my opinion. I've covered an Avid and a Kitfox so far. Three gallons of each, poly brush, p.spray, and p.tone. One quart of poly TAC. I know poly fiber will say a lot more, but that is what I used. You of course use thinner with those products, figure that in as well. Trim paint is extra. I've used some pretty old (+ 10 years old) product and it was just fine. Seems poly tac doesnt last as well though. Dries out eventually. I may have put the poly spray on a bit thinner than recommended, fewer coats, but you couldn't see light through it, and I knew I would always hangar the plane so UV would be less of a problem for me than for someone who left their plane out in the weather. Did put one less coat of p. spray on bottom than the top as well. YMMY Jim Chuk

PS. U sure are doing good on that plane, nice to see. Glad u got it

Sure Bob. I will contact you via PM. I figured that was one of those little things no one would want. Them little buggers aren't cheap new!

I need a RV oil bottle if you part with it.