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  1. 1avidflyer added a post in a topic Avid B Sheriffs Auction on 10/2/18. 10:30am.   

    I'll stay out of this topic.  But will keep watching it.  JImChuk
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  2. 1avidflyer added a post in a topic Kitfox 4 rebuild   

    Thanks,  I'm copying the color scheme on my Kitfox 1 that I had.  Will be putting red pinstriping on the orange stripe.  Won't fly this winter I'm guessing.  


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  3. 1avidflyer added a post in a topic Kitfox 4 rebuild   

    Today's efforts.  JImChuk


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  4. 1avidflyer added a post in a topic Part number for Avid 6' wheel seal   

    Thanks Randy.  I'll try to just find the seals by themselves.  I ordered 4 bearings that are the right size, but they didn't come with the seals.   JImChuk
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  5. 1avidflyer added a post in a topic am I crazy   

    Leave the therapy to the wife, I'm heading to the garage.  I'm not crazy, but maybe I'm driving the wife crazy.   Good thing she doesn't even know what all is in the hangar.  Bad for her if I kick the bucket and leave her with the mess...  JImChuk
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  6. 1avidflyer added a post in a topic Part number for Avid 6' wheel seal   

    On all the Avids I've had with the standard 6" wheel, the bearings looked like this. The seal was about 1/4" wide, and was a separate part.  JImChuk

     
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  7. 1avidflyer added a post in a topic Fibreglass seat base wanted for an Avid Flyer Heavy Hauler   

    I think I have an extra one.  Shipping would be a killer though.  To each his own, but I think the sling seat is way more comfortable.  JImChuk
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  8. 1avidflyer added a post in a topic am I crazy   

    I don't think you have to many airplanes/projects.  Is there such a thing as to many airplanes?  I don't think so.   Have fun with it Bob :-)   JImChuk
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  9. 1avidflyer added a post in a topic Kitfox 4 rebuild   

    Thanks guys.  It's been a long time getting to this point.  Still a long way to go though..  :-)   Still have to do the colors on the tailfeathers.  And then of course there is the panel and FWF.  Ya, it'll be a while yet.  
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  10. 1avidflyer added a post in a topic Kitfox 4 rebuild   

    Now it's blue, and soon I'm thru.  Just the yellow left to do.   Wahoo!   (what a poet)  JImChuk
     


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  11. 1avidflyer added a topic in Avid and Kitfox parts Suppliers   

    Part number for Avid 6' wheel seal
    Trying to find the part # for an Avid wheel seal.  Anyone have it?  thanks,  JImChuk
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  12. 1avidflyer added a post in a topic Detailed landing gear drawings   

    Bucky,  I sent you a pm.   JImChuk
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  13. 1avidflyer added a post in a topic BRS Parachutes   

    The 1200 lb canister model is about 26 lbs.  JImChuk
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  14. 1avidflyer added a post in a topic Engine out outlanding   

    Real hi tech valves for me...  the snowmobile style ones like Avid supplied with their kits originally.  Look on page 18 of this LEAF catalog.  JImChuk
    onlinecatalog.leadingedgeairfoils.com/18/
     
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  15. 1avidflyer added a post in a topic Kitfox 4 rebuild   

    Poly spray today!  JImChuk


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  16. 1avidflyer added a post in a topic Engine out outlanding   

    To each his own, but I like having a valve for each tank, and I only run on one at a time.  I do have the ram air tubes on both gas caps as well, plus the standard Avid aluminum pipe header tank.  I think the low fuel warning is a good idea, although I don't have one.  JImChuk
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  17. 1avidflyer added a post in a topic AVID MK IV plane in Iowa   

    Those pictures are form an Avid advertisement.  JImChuk
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  18. 1avidflyer added a post in a topic Avid B Sheriffs Auction on 10/2/18. 10:30am.   

    You found my next project..... Darn!  Actually the doors are missing as well.  Kind of interesting is the wings have flaperon hangers like a Kitfox 4.  On a close up of the wing, you can see where the fabric was patched at each rib tail.  No telling if that's a good thing or bad.  N# is expired.  Wonder what the FAA's position on ownership is when bought from a sheriff's sale.   I tried to talk to registrations in OK. and got hung up on after waiting for a half hour.  Wonder if anyone on here is actually interested in this plane.....JImChuk  
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  19. 1avidflyer added a post in a topic Kitfox 4 rebuild   

    It will take a while, I have a few projects lined up....Thanks,  JImChuk
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  20. 1avidflyer added a post in a topic Kitfox/NSI   

    I have Allen's old one that came on my Kitfox 4 from Texas.  I should try to move that one down the road as well.  (Allen was the original builder of my Texas Kitfox 4 that I'm painting right now.)   JImChuk
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  21. 1avidflyer added a post in a topic Kitfox 4 rebuild   

    Little bit more progress showing today.  Ready for poly spray on the fuselage tomorrow.   Paint stripes on Monday??  JImChuk



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  22. 1avidflyer added a post in a topic Nylaflow Poly-flow fittings problems   

    I've always used brass 1/8" brass fittings with the nylaflow tubing and don't seem to have any problem.  Auto parts store or good hardware store will have the 1/8" brass fittings.  JImChuk
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  23. 1avidflyer added a post in a topic Kitfox 4 rebuild   

    I see a few posts back that I said that maybe by the middle of the week I would be spraying it.  I said that on July 28.  Well now it's August 10 and I finally started to spray poly brush.  Ready for poly spray tomorrow.  Nice thing about this paint job, is the majority of the plane will be gray like my Kitfox 1 was.  And that gray is actually poly spray.  So maybe it wont be that long before I can start spraying the Kitfox 3 once this one gets out of the booth.  Oh well.  JImChuk
     


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  24. 1avidflyer added a post in a topic Kitfox Highwing gear on an Avid???   

    Thanks for the info Nick.  Just one question though.  If I'm reading this right, in the upper left corner of your drawing, you show weight at 600 #   My plane weighs right at 600 lbs.  Of course when I add fuel and my fat butt, it goes up from there.  Add someone else, and we will get up to a maximum of 1150 gross weight.  But then I got thinking, well there are two landing gear, if each one does 1/2 the weight, that's close to the 600lb you mention.  I'm confused.  Just for comparison, it would be interesting to see the numbers on a bungee gear.  I'm imagining that would have to involve real drop tests though, cause how else could one accurately  figure the stretch and movement  in the bungees.  Thanks for getting my brain working (or at least moving) this morning.  :-)  I wonder how close some of my landings come to that 3.8 Gs you show???   I never set the ELT off anyway.  Well not lately anyway..... JImChuk
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  25. 1avidflyer added a post in a topic Kitfox Highwing gear on an Avid???   

    Ya, I talked with Lowell today.  Maybe I'll get a new cabane from him that fits the Avid rather than modify the one that fits the Kitfox.  Looks like the Avid width is 1/2" more than the Kitfox.   JImChuk
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