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"......I will make a run of 4 sets for various guys in the area."
Just out of,....ahh,..curiosity.. what sort of maximum A|C weight are we looking at here?
well to be an honest injun.. dont have a weight in mind. I do know the stock Avid skis lack on floatation in the powder especialy if you go with wheel skis. I am going to add about 12" to the length on the straight skis and maybe a tad more to the width on the wheel skis.
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John there is hope for a manual on the nsi CAP . There is a new company that is making them actually part of the old company changed names lol . Ill find the info and forward it to you and on the site here.
Welcome to the world of Steve and the crazy AK guys
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Off the record a kitfox 2 will be around 1430 max on floats that is floating on snow . Steve I am pricing the 4130 and find it is cheaper to buy here than to buy and have it shipped grrrrrrrrr. found the uhmv 1/4 cheap in Anchorage though. Yall take care now and fly safe
Sig Below
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"......I will make a run of 4 sets for various guys in the area."
Just out of,....ahh,..curiosity.. what sort of maximum A|C weight are we looking at here?
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that one got me laughing good... I can totaly picture a buch of guys running around with a loud mouth DI behind em hollerin fly focker fly....
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John, and the rest of ya too,
Here is a story my cousin told me when he was home on leave back around 1969.
Knowing he was failing in college in S. Florida and would loose his deferment..., Bruce decided to enlist. Wanting to fly so as to stay out of the mud, he joined the Army and went on to flight training after basic training.
Bruce came from a flying family and his father had worked for Piper in Vero Beach most of his life. He had his Private Pilot licence since high-school and would tell how he and his buddies would buzz the local beaches looking at girls.
The first day of pre flight training found all the pilot candidates in formation. All new to the game, they listened to an Officer give a talk about Army Aviation and the the different jobs they may be doing in the future. He explained that besides helicopters, the Army also flew "fixed wing" aircraft in many roles.
At that time, it was well known that helicopter pilots faced grave dangers in Viet Nam. Bruce knew this going in.
The Officer commented that depending on aptitude, some of them may end up in "fixed wing aircraft" which was considered a bit safer.
He, the Officer, then asked the formation if any of them knew how to fly already and to raise their hand to indicate that they did. Bruce, "seeing the light", and hoping to be assigned to the "safer" fixed wing aircraft raised his.
The Officer had the "fliers" step forward and form a line .
The Officer then shouted ...OK mother F##ckers....... FLY!!!!! FLY!!!!!
For the next hour Bruce, and the others, who "knew how to fly" had to run around the compound flapping their arms and elbows in an attempt to fly as they had said they could. (At this time picture Bruce, half-drunk, running around the room telling the story, waving and flapping his arms and jumping up and down..."
The final statement of the Officer was ...."Now we're going to teach you how to fly the Army way."
Bruce went on to fly MediVacs in Viet Nam, survived, and went back to Ft.Rucker as an instructor.
John, I know it's a large world, but his full name is Brian (Bruce) McPhail. ??
Steve
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Wellllll, just put on a bigger engine to compensate for the weight! Just think how well they would work on powder as light as the Avid is!
John Hart
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I have the digital amp/volt meter shown below. The problem is that most of the time when I hit the master it will read 3.4 or maybe 6.2 volts. When I put a regular volt meter across the terminals it (the second meter) will show 12+ volts as it should. Sometimes a "timex" tap will make the meter read right sometimes it wont. Sometimes flipping the switch between amps and volts will make it read right... Any suggestions other than pull it out and take it to an electronics tech.. I am thinking it has to be a loose or dirty connection in the housing.
Is is possible that I could rig a small powder charge to go off so I dont have to bloddy my knuckles (from tapping the hell out of it) inflight to keep it working?
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they would be a little big and heavy for my Avid I think.. I will just go ahead with my plans to build them.. I will make a run of 4 sets for various guys in the area.
My brother found that most ofthe areas we would find open to float flying up here was closed to float flying in OK. He never bothered to put his floats on for the 5 years he lived there. I guess we take for granted the wide open space for flying up here.
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The floats, I don't have a clue as to the weight (displacement) rating. Just didn't take time to look at them since they are unlikely to be used here in OK. Got them stored up in the ceiling of the shop, and they are not easy to reach without taking the lines loose that hold them up there, which are a pain to get in place. The engine is an NSI Subaru. The prop is an NSI CAP 140. That prop I'd sure like to have some more info on. I've got the maintenance/operator/installation manual, but it sucks as far as tech info. The manual tells how to assemble the prop, but not how to disassemble, clean, lube, inspect, nor does it tell which lubricant is recommended. I assume Aeroshell 5 should be OK, since the hub is aluminum and so are the blade roots.
Those skis I left at Willow are for a Cessna 170 that I sold when I left AK. If you're interested in them, get in touch with Eddie Trimmer, Trimmer Aviation, Willow Airport. http://www.trimmeraviation.com/ He's got them there. They are certified skis, Federal brand I think. Its been 9 years since I left AK, and I just don't remember. I'm getting to the CRS (Can't Remember Stuff) stage of life, I guess.
John Hart
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Welcome John. If you decide to turn loose of those skis let me know... I am in the market and will be building a set in the next few weeks if I cant find a set already built.
Funny, you moved from here to Oklahoma and brought your kitfox... My Brother moved FROM Oklahoma to here... and dragged his kitfox up here with him..
What size floats do you have? 1220 or 1260? What engine?
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A guy comes home, drunk out of his mind, and his clothes smell like Budweiser. He loop-legs it through the door and is met by his wife, who
is scowling, figuring he's been out screwing other women.
"Where the hell you been all night?" she demands.
"At this fantastic new saloon," he says. "The Golden Saloon. Everything there is golden."
"Bullshit! There's no such place!" she says.
Guy says, "Sure there is! Joint's got huge golden doors, a golden floor. Hell, even the urinal's gold!"
The wife still doesn't believe his story, and the next day checks the phone book, finding a place across town called the Golden Saloon. She
calls up the place to check her old man's story. "Is this the Golden Saloon?" she asks when the bartender answers the phone.
"Yes it is," bartender answers.
She says: "Do you have huge golden doors?"
He replies: "Sure do."
She asks: "Do you have golden floors?"
He replies: "Most certainly do."
"What about golden urinals?" she says.
There's a long pause, then the woman hears the bartender yelling, "Hey, Duke, I think I got a lead on the guy that pissed in your saxophone last
night!"
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Well, I'll try posting over here! I'm John Hart, an old retired fart that bought a Kitfox Model IV with a set of Full Lotus floats, wheels, and a trailer to pull it around on. (I left my skis in Willow, AK 'cause they don't work here in OK but two or three days a year.) The aircraft sat for a couple of years, and is in need of a little TLC, which I will turn my attention to in a couple of weeks. (Deer Season is open here in OK, so the airplane has to wait.) I've been in aviation since 1962 - 26 years in Army Aviation, charter and flight instruction in OR for 9 yaers, then charter worked out of Willow, AK part time for 6 years. I worked for the FAA 2 years in Anchorage, but got real fed up with the politics there and quit them in 1999, and moved to OK. Got a lot at the VFW Oklahoma Home land - http://www.vfwokhome.org/, built a shop and house, and here I sit, but going hunting in a few minutes.
John
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The Polite way
to Pee
During one of her daily classes, a teacher trying to teach
good manners, asked her students the following question: "Michael, if you
were on a date having dinner with a nice young lady, how would you tell her
that you have to go to the bathroom?" Michael said, "Just a minute I have to
go pee." The teacher responded by saying, "That would be rude and impolite.
What about you Sherman, how would you say it?" Sherman said, "I am
sorry, but I really need to go to the bathroom I'll be right back." "That's
better, but it's still not very nice to say the word bathroom at the dinner
table.
And you, little Edward, can you use your brain for once and
show us your good manners?" "I would say: Darling, may I
please be excused for a moment? I have to shake hands with a
very dear friend of mine, whom I hope to introduce you to after dinner."
The teacher fainted...
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A man walks into a bar with a paper bag.
He sits down and places the bag on the counter.
The bartender walks up and asks what's in the bag.
The man reaches into the bag and pulls out a little man, about 9" high and sets him on the counter.
He reaches back into the bag and pulls out a small piano, setting it on the counter as well.
He reaches into the bag once again and pulls out a tiny piano bench, which he places in front of the piano.
The little man sits down at the piano, and starts playing a beautiful piece by Mozart!
"Where on earth did you get that?" says the bartender.
The man responds by reaching into the paper bag.
This time he pulls out a magic lamp. He hands it to the bartender and says: "Here. Rub it."
So the bartender rubs the lamp, and suddenly there's a gust of smoke and a beautiful genie is standing before him.
"I will grant you one wish... just one wish... each person is only allowed one!"
The bartender gets real excited Without hesitating he says, "I want a million bucks!"
A few moments later, a duck walks into the bar. It is soon followed by another duck, then another.
Pretty soon, the entire bar is filled with ducks and they keep coming!
The bartender turns to the man and says, "Y'know, I think your genie's a little deaf. I asked for a million bucks, not a million ducks."
"No shit!!" says the man, "Do you really think I asked for a 9 inch pianist?!"
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Many years ago during the Vietnam conflict, an older Army Warrant Officer Helicopter Pilot was attending a course of instrusction at Ft. Rucker, AL. He had already served two tours in Vietnam, and as was his usual routine after class, he went by the Officer's Club for a beer on the way to his quarters. He went to the Stag Bar of the club where all the officer student pilots usually hang out. Warrant Officer candidate student pilots could not go to the Officer's Club in those days, so the bar was, as usual, filled with second lieutenants. One of the stundent officers struck up a conversation with the old Warrant officer, and during the course of the conversation, asked the old Warrant Officer why he had never take a commission as a lieutenant since the Army was handing them out to Warrant Officers. The Old Warrant Officer replied, "I applied for a commission a few years ago, but was denied." The lieutenant asked why had the Army denied the application for the commission. The old Warrant Officer replied, "In the course of reviewing my military personnel files, they discovered that my parents were legally married to each other."
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the Hobbs shows 226.8 hrs, I put probably 20-30 starts on pretending to fly and break in...At first it ripped it over then the RPM just started slowing down till it would just barely turn it over.. I figured the solenoid was bad so I jumped that, then went straight to the starter with a new battery... no help... Quick clean up of the armature and she was good to go.... I am redesigning the box in the firewall so I can pull the starter without having to pull the engine.. I don't know why the hell they did not make that box a bolt on instead to a rivet on to begin with.?
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Leni,
How much time was on the starter when it went bad? Or even better, can you gestimate the number of cycles, or starts since new?
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I had troubles with my stock Rotax starter so I bought a GPL starter so I would have backup in case the battery went dead I could hand start it. The GPL starter will not fit on an Avid without major modifications to the engine mounts. I pulled the rotax starter apart and the armature was real dirty, yet the brushes looked fine and had lots of life left in them... I put a cordless drill on the brush end of starter and spun it up using a piece of emery cloth to clean the armature up. I took out a few shallow pits etc and now she works good as new! For those of you who are having problems I would take the time to pull the starter apart instead of spending 700 bucks on a new one. Any local automotive starter/alternator rebuild house should be able to fix you up with new brushes etc. if you need them. WAYYYYYY better than the rotax prices.
I am also told that a starter off a 2000 sea doo personal water craft will bolt right up and work.. that one lists at 219.00 new.. dealer price is around 145.00.
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still does not answer the fuel flow issue..... but put it in there ifn ya want to... I wont need it for a few more weeks.
clue in goober.... 
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I like this site...No one hassles me here.
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Outstanding! It sure would be a plus if I could get more technical data on that sucker. It seems like a pretty good prop, functions OK for the couple of hours that I ran it, but with it seeping grease along the parting surfaces of the hub, I'm just a little skeptical of the thing. Aslo, it would be great if there were parts available for it. I don't have a problem with effecting repairs, but I want to be certain I don't get into one of thos blade-flinging episodes if I can avoid it.
Oh, I used to to live in AK myself. I'd like to go back, but got some medical problems with the wife of 46 years. Maybe someday, if I don't get too old and crippled up myself!
Thanks,
John Hart