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hey Jim, what motor are you running in your bird? by the way it looks great.

thanks jim, i started working on it this week. have some cutting and welding to do.  1,make new lift struts  2 take left turn out of vert stab. ( right hand prop) 3.modify doors. sometime in it's life a former owner decided to beef up up the firewall for a VW and went crazy with 2 inch by .125 steel strap so will be removing some of that. should have it flying by july. thanks for all your help.  Bill

I'm sure some have.  I know someone here who did it on a Kitfox 1 that had the same style door.  He also widened the fuselage at the same time.  I think it would be pretty easy to do for someone who has the proper skills.  JImChuk

hi all, has anynoe modified the avid model A door and fuselage to be like the later models? getting older and it would  make it much easier to get in and out. thanks.  bill

One tip filled and ready for sanding tomorrow.

Yes, keep us informed.  JImChuk

I’m in the process of building some new wingtips for my Avid.  These are epoxy/glass.  I actually started building them a couple of years back and just now getting down to laying them up. The plugs are made from laminated pink building foam from Home Depot or the likes.  The shapes were cutout with a Hotwire knife. These will be built into wing tanks.  The nice part of the Hoerner tips is that they will increase the effective wingspan by over 30” without increasing the actual wingspan. What to expect according to available data is slower stall speed, greater climb, slightly higher top speed and greater range (time in the backcountry.  
I can post photos as the project progresses if anyone has an interest.

Bummer for sure,  At least they will recover.  Hopefully it will be very soon.  JImChuk

Brandon Peterson from Kitfox Aircraft was involved in an accident this past Saturday.

He and a passenger, not his wife Heather, hit a power line going over the Snake river and they went in.  N295P was lost but they both got out and were transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Hello.  I seem to have misplaced a message from someone that wanted to buy the gear.  Please let me know if that was you.  Thanks, 

Kent

Any Avid MK 4 / Fat Avid for sale 44" or wider cabin? Preferably a stretched version

I Use to own a Avid Heavey Hauler years ago.

Sky Raider I at present would like to go 2 place again.

Any Avid MK 4 / Fat Avid for sale 44" or wider cabin? Preferably a stretched version

I Use to own a Avid Heavey Hauler years ago.

Sky Raider I at present would like to go 2 place again.

Any Avid MK 4 / Fat Avid for sale 44" or wider cabin? Preferably a stretched version

I Use to own a Avid Heavey Hauler years ago.

Sky Raider I at present would like to go 2 place again.

I am working on an avid heavy hauler trigear. rebuilding and am ready for the weight and balance . using the numbers and formulas I have a empty cg at 12.inches and a loaded cg at 13. anybody else have a trigear . my next move is to jack the plane at the cg indicated and see how close it is.

OK, thanks! I'll try this weekend.

I always fill from the bottom. I don't think it matters how you get the old fluid out but your idea sounds great.

They were maybe 1/8" thick.  I laid up some fiberglass on an old lexan windshield.   I used some of my polyester resin a week ago, and it hardened up just fine.  It's a few years old.  

Hi Jim,

what thickness did you make the tank doublers that you used to glue the top of the tank back in? Thanks Bryce 

Hi,
I need to change the oil in my Matco brakes on my Avid Mk4. I was thinking about doing it the same way I do on my mountain bike brakes, which is to open the vent on the master cylinder and then suck out the fluid with a syringe from the bleed port on the caliper so that the system will be empty. Afterwards, I would the fill them up with new fluid again from the bleed port.

Any reason why that would not work? I got the Matco MC-5 master cylinders.

Thanks!

hi all, anyone have a 6 inch matco tail wheel  and spring for an avid a model for sale?  also td main gear.  thanks.  Bill

Aircraft Spruce has them

https://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/appages/skullcap1.php

Aircraft Spruce has them in stock

thanks so much jim i really appreicate it. hope you feel better soon. there's no rush just looking at options now.  won't start work on it until may. am just finnishing up my ultralight and then begin test flights. the diagrams help. thanks

I have been under the weather lately, so couldn't measure my MK IV fuselage for you.  Maybe this drawing will give you an indication of what you were asking for.   

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I picked this up from a guy in Texas last month, sending it back to Alaska to put on my KF1