lukemn

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  1. Posted · Edited by lukemn

    Drum roll please... I am please to give you the long awaited and much anticipated..... Avid Amphib Construction manual in a searchable pdf file..

     

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    Avid Amphib Construction manual.pdf

    Please let me know where I should send a gift certificate out and to who or a donation to the web site to help keep things going is the way to go I'd be happy do that!!!!!!

    Luke

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    I should have that build manual in PDF form for you in the next day or two.  I brought it to work so I can make it a PDF and post it here for you.


    That's supper cool..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   when you post the PDF our shop is going to be like this!!!!:bday:

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    I still like Burt Rutans response when someone kept asking him about putting this or that into one of his designs.  He said the decision is simple.  Take the thing, through it in the air.  If it comes back down, it shouldn't go in the airplane :lmao:

    I had the opportunity to meet Mr. Rutan at Air Venture this summer and watch several of his aircraft fly in the air show latter that day it was way cool!!!!

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    When I modified my firewall to mount the Pelican mount for my Subaru EA-81, and then had to modify it again to raise the engine, my welder made the comment that, "It's so strong, you could hang a Jake on there!"  

    For the info for those with "chainsaw engines", a "Shakey Jake" was a Jacobs radial engine that would shake so bad at low rpms, the whole plane would shake and almost do a tap-dance on the ground.

    EDMO

    Hi EDMO:

    Coming from a hot rod / race car background I need to constantly remind myself when working on the aircraft project not to overbuild things.  One of my favorite reminders of this comes from the Carbon Cub idealism that if your mindful of the ounces the pounds will take care of themselves.  

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    One mans opinion:  if I were going to start an engine mount from scratch I would start with the Rotax horse collar.  This would make attaching accessories (like exhaust, oil tank, etc) easy because the oem stuff would just bolt on. No need to custom build everything. 

    It would also make changing or upgrading the engine (eg to a 914 if you ever wanted) an easier bolt on project. 

    Hi Av8r3400:

    I looked over the Rotax ring mount and it looks like a solid option.   I did a little searching and couldn't find an example of a pusher aircraft that's running one if there's a type that dose I'd like to look over there instillation and see how it's incorporated.

    Anything that cuts down the amount of scratch building I'm doing would be great!! 

    The mount I'm currently working with is  Searay-ish in nature and it's setup much like there current aircraft. As for the 914 my 80hp 912ul is the core engine that the 914 is built from and I think that a turbo would make a great muffler!!!!!

    Luke

  8. Posted · Edited by lukemn

    Of course the engine mount I'm building will be designed using the latest cutting edge CAD software with the hi-tec stress analytics.  Not cheap masking tape to lay out where 4130 tubes will be going..........;)

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    Thanks EDMO like most workshops the equipment list is ever evolving deal the Ironworker is one of our more recreant additions to the shop so far I've found it to be very handy at punching holes and some sheering operations for one off work I'm still heading to the drill press & band-saw (old habits die hard I guess)

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    Sliding the 912 in close to the engine mount so they can get to know each other and start becoming freinds. It seems I'm going to need to workout a support for the engine as it's slightly low.

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  17. Posted · Edited by lukemn

    Thanks C5Enginee!!  Building in the pre internet days must have been quite a task.  I do like working with some of the old timers around the airport I'm on as there experience from the trial and error days of pre internet is very helpful (sometimes way more so than when I'm googling something to death trying to figure out a problem) but it's hard for me to imagine what it was like to build an aircraft that way must have been a very exciting day when the news letter showed up in the mailbox!!