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Very cool paint job. I remember seeing a picture of your plane somewhere else not too long ago. Hope the test flight goes well for you.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/141163152567?ru=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_sacat%3D0%26_from%3DR40%26_nkw%3D141163152567%26_rdc%3D1

Link to the auction.

Me thinks it was miss labeled.  The only think from matco there is the breaks.  The rest was souced from Kitfox and used with the Douglas ATV wheels, NOT the matco wheels.  These hubs dont work, and are not needed if your running matco wheels.

Thanks for the post! Going to go check them out.

Someone drilled a jillion holes in the rotors I have - I can see doing this on some racing car rotors to dissipate heat, but only a brake engineer could convince me to do it on light airplane rotors - I ran this thru my thick brain a dozen times and finally gave up on trying to figure out if you lose friction area or gain clamping pressure or wearing out pads faster - don't think you drag them enough to warp with heat    - well, maybe not quite a jillion -

EDMO

I just spent some time on the phone with the fedex claims dept and they won't touch the issue because according to the scans they never touched it. I am going to the shipping company to make an appearance today at lunch. I was talking to one of his low level workers on the phone yesterday. What a PIA! I've been dealing with crap all morning from 3 or 4 different places. After 6 years the county is still trying to collect taxes on my plane even though I am exempt, not a CA resident, and my plane is below the minimum taxable value. I spent 27 minutes on hold with the assessors office.....

Wouldn't mind having those rotors mine are the solid ones. I have the drawing on how to lighten them but that's a ton of work for 1/2 lb.

That is about the same age as my Avid.  The guys that built it bought the kit in 1988 or 1989 - finished it in 1991.  Mine has a grey head 582.  They told me they paid $12,000 for the kit.  I might be interested in the floats if they aren't damaged too bad, particularly if he does have the mounting hardware.  I can fix fiberglass (also building a fiberglass airplane), so that part doesn't worry me too much.  If you can find out the kit serial number, you should be able to find the model mostly.  The serial number to model mapping gets fuzzy during the transition periods.  Mine is a 'C', but they bought the dual radiator w/upgraded cowl option that later became standard on the MkIV.  It also now has the round rudder.  They ground looped it, and had to rebuild the tail, so bought the round rudder tail a that time.

Mark

Hi all,  I know some were looking for a set of Kitfox hubs so they could go to 8"rims on their Avids recently.  I just ran across these on ebay this morning.  Auction has 6 days to go, so they just went up recently.  Opening bid is $30.  Brake discs and brake cylinders are there as well.  Ebay item # is 141163152567.  They are listed as Matco hubs if I remember right, and are in the experimental aircraft section of ebay motors.  Probably you will find them if you search for Matco in ebay motors if I got the item # wrong.   Jim Chuk

I am with Randy on this one.. Dont give up on it.  Ask the owners of the shipping outlet if they have ever seen the movie "Office Space" 

Joey go back and get the tracking number that they got when they printed out the shipping label,it will be on their computer.UPS and FED EX are insured automatically for 100 bucks and the place you took it should be also.If they printed a label it should be on them.We ship out a lot so if a label was made it will show up on computer.Dont let them off the hook. Good Luck Randy

That Blows! Bummer.

The usps now includes tracking with all packages - I find them a lot cheaper than shipping UPS.

A long time ago, I shipped a package COD to my ex - somehow the post office delivered it without collecting - after going around in circles with them for 7 months, I found out that there is a 6 month limit on collecting, and a proper method, which none of them told me about until the time was up!

EDMO

Randy , would you have a picture of your trim tab by any chance and were you placed it

Scott-- Hey I forgot you signed up over here on the dark side of the flapperon community. Why don't you share your tale of gearbox woes...

As probably most of you know from TKF- I have been fighting a vibration problem on my Kitfox since I bought it last year. I have done SB#54, rebuilt the carbs, changed plugs, sent the gearbox off to be reshimmed, etc. My problem was I did not know what was normal as I have never owned a Rotax before- all my experience was with Lycoming and Continental. After checking with a few other Rotax owners, and seeing the problem Larry was having, I figured out I might have the same problem- so I pulled my gearbox back apart again and discovered the same spalling that Larry found in his, so I ordered a new dog gear and gearset. After a two and a half month backorder wait from Rotax, I finally get the new parts- and have to machine a spacer to make everything fit. Nothing is easy with Rotax!!! The good news is I spent the last couple of days putting everything back together, putting the doors back on and bleeding the brakes. Ready to fly!!! Hopefully tomorrow!!!!

The good news is a fair amount of labor building wings has already been completed. The bad news is they been hanging around for 20+ years just waiting to be damaged. If there any scratches on the aluminum spars they could lead to stress risers and be a significant safety issue. The Avid manual says minor scratchs can be sanded and polished way, however, any scratch deep enough to catch a fingernail within 18" of the lift strut or root end attachment points renders the spar unusable. Look them over close, a new wing kit would set you back more than the whole package. And that's assuming you can get ahold of Airdale and they have what you need, or you luck out and find an undamaged, unneeded set somewhere close to avoid the expense of shipping or a road trip to pickup.

Thanks Leni, that's what I need to know.

I'd sure think there would be something you could do even if only given a receipt for the item shipped with the place. Good luck Joey, hope you get it figured out. That really bites!

Larry all I got was a receipt with the tracking number and damned if I can even find that. I admit I could of done a better job myself but I guess I got complacent and when you pay another person to take care of it for you ....well you know how that turned out...chances are I was gonna need a new motor anyways but sure wound of been nice if they could of got me going for less than the price of a new one. It was even cheaper if you already had a front plate and they just swapped it for you.

What paperwork did you receive from them when you dropped off the package?  Does it have any "fine print" pertinent to this situation?

On Dec 27th I used one of those Parcel to Posts joints that ships Fedex, USPS, and DHL packages that's near my house to mail the electric motor for my Ivoprop back to Ivo in Long Beach because it quit working. I didn't insure it, because it was an overnight trip and it was packaged really well. I got to thinking today that I should of heard from Ivo by now so I called them and they never got it. I ran the tracking number it and was never scanned as leaving the facility I dropped it off at. Called Fedex and according to them if it was never scanned as leaving that facility and as far they are concerned, it doesn't even exist as a package. The tracking number is generated when the place I shipped it from printed the label.

I went to the place I shipped it from and they said they didn't have it and had no explanation other than the driver didn't scan it. I would tend to think a mom and pop shop on the edge of a shopping center would have a better chance of losing something than a Fedex truck cruising around with an unaccounted for package. Even if that did happen it would of been scanned again when he dropped them off the local facility. Fedex suggested they call their other carriers for the chance that it got tossed into the wrong pile once they took it off their counter. I suggested that to the parcel to post place and he said that never happens.....argh.

Looks like I am shit out of luck on this one and will be sucking the $490 for a new Ivo motor. Anyone have any other suggestions?

5-6k is all I would pay for a kit.. it sucks for the seller, but for what you can buy one flying for, its a stretch to get much more than that out of it.

Does anyone have any information about what this kit might be worth? I'm still seriously thinking about it. I don't want to buy a kit that isn't worth what I'm paying for it. I realize that when this was one purchased back in 1988 (I think) it was nearly $13,000 for the kit, plus the owner took a lot of the options so he's going to be taking a hit on what he paid. I just want to know what it's current market value might be?

It would be great for my brother who is an A&P or to even have as a project plane, since I'm always looking for my next project?

I may have found a possible alternative. www.boatersland.com/floscan500.html

They have the 1-10 GPH analog style. It's not the $130 that C5 paid for his Navman but might be something that would work well for our application. It's at least not the $800 for a JPI so that's a plus.

Chris,

      I have been searching for one of the floscans too - Seems that they did make a 2" indicator too - not been able to find either.  The 16 gal monitor would be better than none, IMO.

model 200 and 210?

EDMO

And, a young Illinois lawyer was getting ready to run for president.

10 years later, he tried to force his liberal beliefs on the nation.

The war that he started killed 600,000 of his fellow Americans, and left 1 million addicted to morphine

Actually, the Tyrant Preacher, John Brown, from Kansas, had started the battle - Lincoln just made it worse.

America was bankrupt.....

And, they re-elected him for a second term!

And, what Illinois lawyer was recently running for a second term and said he wanted to be just like Lincoln?

EDMO