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  2. Guest

    Posted

    Willis is that the KF cowl I sent you? Sure looks good on the plane! Your plane looks awesome. Maybe I need to adapt a KF cowl to my Fat Avid! I didn't have a Fat Avid or need a cowl for one when I sent it to you. Now I am desperately looking for a cowl! Crazy world!

  3. lostman

    Posted

    Not owning an Avid/Fox I'm not sure what the gasket/seal looks like. But reading through this thread and realizing that there is an automotive thermostat that fits make me think of something else.

    If it's a typical automotive size, the Chevrolet 4.3 from the early 90's had a seal around the circumference of the thermostat.

     

    Has anyone tried that? They are very inexpensive and I don't see why it shouldn't stretch a tad if you needed to. Plus for a couple bucks at the local autoparts store you'd have what you need.

     

    Maybe I'm completely wrong, but I'm just trying to help.

  4. lostman

    Posted

    I agree, flying at night with that type of headwind is just needless. Especially if given a place to stay and being able to fly the next day without the same wind, in the daylight.

    I understand trying to get home at times, but if it's just for pleasure why do it?

     

    Glad your friends are both okay. I'm glad I can learn from others at times!

  5. Guest

    Posted

    Well, I found a fiberglass shop in the yellow pages in Belgrade Mt. Called them and left a message asking if by chance they manufactured cowls for Avid. All pro composites. Maybe they are the ones. Maybe I'll get a return call. Long shot.....

  6. akflyer

    Posted

    John,

     

    When I rebuild the basket case Avid I bought, the first thing I noticed was the hole in the trailing edge the wire goes through was getting soft and enlarged quite a bit.  I put he aluminum trailing edge on and couldn't be happier!  I got the trailing edge from airdale and it was cut into 2' sections when I got it so Steve could ship it cheaper.. I ordered the same trailing edge from ACSpruce for less money and got it in 8' lengths so I could do it in 2 pieces per side instead of cobbling it all together.

     

    :BC:

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  7. Guest

    Posted

    I got confused and have already spoken at length with Rod. Very nice guy who owns performance products. he tried to help, by talking to John Larson, but was unable to come up with a solution. He did not make the cowls originally and was unable to track one down to make a mold from.

    Jim do you know any more than Belgrade Mt?

    thanks!

  9. lostman

    Posted

    That is some serious cheap MX costs on the Subaru. I guess I never sat down and put the pencil to paper to do the math on it.

    Ed, thanks for the figures. Makes me want to get my Subaru engine and redrive hung on something that is flyable instead of sitting on a plane that I wouldn't even consider flying due to it's weight and the way it was built.

  12. 1avidflyer

    Posted

    Hi Cris,  when I got my cowl from Avid for the Jabiru conversion about 5 years ago (before Brett) it came from a boat builder in Montana.  May have been Belgrade Mt.   I believe they were the people Avid got some of their fiberglass parts from.  Jim Chuk

  13. EDMO

    Posted

    Willis,

          Congrats on the success.

    Hope the 2-strokers don't read this:  I have seen so many Subaru cars go 300-400K miles, that I got my calculator out and did some figuring.  If we take the conservative figure of 250,000 miles at average of 2000 rpm and a speed of 40 mph for a car, then it would last 6250 hours of running time.  A Soob conversion in a plane turning 4000 rpm should last at least 3125 hours before overhaul - probably more, since we do more oil changes and maintenance.

    Good Flying!

    EDMO

  14. marshawk

    Posted

    Thanks alot Doug, thanks for all the help also was about 2 years ago you directed me over to the dark side, :buttrock: I think its going to be fine once we adjust the thrust line up a bit , it felt really good on the skis and soob seems strong. It worked out pretty well since we just sold the kitfox  about a week ago.

  15. dholly

    Posted

    Back OT... Mike that is one of the nicest paint jobs and coolest paint scheme I think I've seen on an Avid yet. The color combo and contemporary curve do a super job of minimizing a fat snout and updating the decades old design. Congrats on your new toy, hope she flys as good as she looks!

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  18. EDMO

    Posted · Edited by Ed In Missouri

    I HAVE AC43-13:

    My problem is - I really cant understand how to figure rivet spacing.  I see the spacing for double-rows for repairs, but I am doing a single-row of blind rivets.  The figures look like too many rivets for the material.

    I am going to rivet .025 aluminum skins to my aileron ribs, and to the trailing edge with 1/8 blind rivets -

    What is the spacing?

    I know that we are experimental, and can do whatever we want to, but I would like to get this right according to some sort of approved method.

    Has anyone got some understanding of what the "standard spacing" is, or how it is determined?

    EDMO

  19. dholly

    Posted

    Willis, what great way to start the New Year and she sure is purty! Seems like just yesterday I responded to your 'Fat Avid' post on the TKF forums. Hope you feel you made the right decision and receive many years of enjoyment for your efforts. -Doug

  20. EDMO

    Posted · Edited by Ed In Missouri

    Chris,

         I will try to find his phone # and or email for you and add it here.

    EDMO

         I didn't find phone number - You can PM him on here at - stressedout72

         He says he is on facebook, or website is www.performanceproducts1.com

    Hope this helps - I thought he gave a phone or email, but this is all I can find right now.

         Or, go to the "Introduce yourself" section here and clik on what he put in blue.

    I have no clue how to put stuff in blue on here, and donno how it works either.

    ED

  21. Guest

    Posted

    So am I to understand that Rod Schramm is the fiberglass man who may have produced some Cowls? If so does anyone know how I can get a hold of him? I think the Airdale flyer cowl could be made to work in a pinch. I don't think the planes are that much different.

    What I have now would be really hard to make work because it was cut up into a Boot Cowl configuration. It is extremely heavy and would become heavier if I try to put it back together. I blamed the Boot cowl conversion as to why it got heavy, but it makes sense that it was a modified MK IV cowl and that is how it got so heavy.

    I want light, clean and simple......

  23. EDMO

    Posted · Edited by Ed In Missouri

    I haven't heard about this on the news yet, but my buddy called me tonight:

    A pilot flew my friend's repaired Luscombe 8A/F from Texas to Sullivan, Mo. last Friday just before the cold blizzard hit here - He was followed by another CFI in a Piper Colt - They got here about 4 PM with a 50 mph tailwind - My buddy tried to get them to stay all night and fly back to Texas in the morning in the Colt - But they departed here about 5 PM  -  About 8 PM and about 8 miles from the Airport at Branson, Mo., where they were going to stop for gas - the engine quit and they went into Bull Shoals Lake.  Both, about age 60, managed to swim out, and were picked up in a car and treated at hospital for hypothermia.

    The NTSB is supposed to raise the Colt from the waters next week for an investigation.

    A Colt holds 18 gal of gas - burns at least 6 gal per hour x 3 hours = 18 gal.

    Don't forget the headwind they were fighting.

    EDMO

  24. lostman

    Posted

    I totally understand. I'm always looking for problems to solve too, but a lot of them seem to hit me and then I'm forced to solve them. Kind of why I have done so many jobs and have so many skills. I have to continually be learning or I'm not happy at all. I love designing and building things and probably take the harder road on both accounts sometimes.