Ronin

Plexus.

I paid someone to blast the Spacewalker II I scratch built years ago but I painted it myself.  Uhhh. I hate painting tubes. Two coats of epoxy primer and two coats of blood-red urethane took me over 5 hours. Did I mention painting tube's sucks?  

I got a 100' roll from a plastics company a while ago, who needs a couple feet?

Here you go.

KF Art.pdf

Any chance you could post up more shots of the floor install, how you fastened it, and also how many pieces of plate did you use and what length X width? 

What thickness and where did you get them?

Thanks. 

Did you make the carbon floorboards? They look nice.

Perfect! Mines a Speedster also and I think ours were only off by seven numbers. My fuselage is BCS102.  Thanks. 

Guy,

I'm thinking of selling my VI #1200 and need to "re-kit" the bolts, nuts and other hardware.  Does anyone have an original parts list? PDF would be nice but I'll take what I can get. 

I heard that liberals prefer to dry tears with TP over tissues. And they cry a LOT. 

I use these, I have three or four of them.  

https://www.jegs.com/p/Earls/Earls-EZ-Beader/1140092/10002/-1 

Here you go TJay. 

I think a shorter (helper?) spring should be cut straight across or rounded, but not pointed like in the above photo. That would cause a stress point in the main spring. 

I also hauled my unfinished kit from Canada to the US without any issues. 

texted him, no reply yet. 

I've tried to send you a PM lostman but the process seems messed up at the moment. 

I'm in Lakeland and might be able to handle it for you. I can set my own schedule so that's not a problem. Only issue I have is a #1200 max tow weight. The planes fine but if the trailer is a beast I wouldn't be able to do it.  I'd be happy to help out. 

Don't laugh it works, hauled my kit almost 2k miles from Canada 

The Magnum maybe, but $99.5k for the Catalina rights & tooling?  My children wouldn't likely live long enough to see that one go even. Having worked in the kitplane business I can tell you it ain't easy. I'd do $50k for both lines but that's just me.  

Some $ sent via PP.

Thanks for keeping the site going. 

Yes, it is. There is a four place, two place tandem and now a two place side by side. 

Guys, thinking about just selling the projects and getting a flying plane for now. The 3 is sold and I'm going to put the 4 on the market soon. I wanted to give you guys first crack at it. Grove gear, no wheels or brakes. Powder coated yellow. Wings not built. Going to start at 12k. 

Obviously he varnished/epoxied the wood really well, and coated all the metal parts and you cant do much about that, but for starters I would ditch all that cabin insulation. 

I looked at that one on Barnstormers, looked to be built VERY well. 

Idling too slowly will destroy the gearbox as well as cause other issues.  Also they like to be revved, like run them at 5,500 all day revved. When I would demo the Europa Monowheel with a 914 people would always ask "what's a good economy cruise?" I would reply either "your looking at it (as I was pulling 5,5/5,600RPM) or I have no idea, I've never tried it".  We ran them solely on 100LL with TCP additive, did oil at 25 hours (914) and 50 hours (912S) plugs around 100/150 hours and never had issues except lead staining behind the exhaust and a layer of it in the oil tank at each change. We had one of the first converted 914's from Kodiak that started life as a 912 in our first demonstrator, that plane was thrashed, flown in acro displays by Pete Clark from the UK, and raced in the Sun 60 race a few times by Ivan Shaw which was done the whole route wide open in boost!  Years later a buddy from Kodiak came up to swap the pistons/cylinders on the engine as they were not standard 914 parts and I looked at them all on the bench. Still had a nice cross-hatch, very mild ridge on the top, no galling, scrapes, blow-by marks and very little carbon. I believe they were 80hp 912 heads and milled pistons to lower the compression and had over 500 hours on them.  And still held up to that nonsense. 

I would take that plane off on a cool morning at Lakeland at full boost and leave it that way until I leveled off at 10k about six minutes later. Nice thing about liquid cooling is I could split-S, pull back to idle and dive for the deck at VNE and not worry about shock cooling.  And did just that many times.  Great fun.

There are numerous cases of 912's going to 1000 hours, 2000 hours, and I've read reports of some going over 4000 hours. I don't believe you will EVER, get an air cooled engine to go that far without cylinder work.