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  1. Trackwelder added a post in a topic 3 blade or 2 blade prop   

    The B -box is designed for the 66 inch prop, I have one mounted on an E- box but would like to step up to 72 inch blades.
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  2. Trackwelder added a post in a topic Wing tank clearance issues   

    I used the wing tanks, and they did not seem to be a problem until I put the covering on, then they showed, I used early designed wings without the leading edge and am hoping that when I add fuel, they will settle down and not be obvious, they don't actually stick up but stand out.
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  3. Trackwelder added a post in a topic 3 piece windshield   

    I worked ith Plastics some in college, and the trick to blow molding or getting a good bend was to heat it evenly at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for an hour, then you could do what you want with it, 30 years later I still have a salad bowl I made by blow molding, I may have to build a big enough oven to do it but 3 or 4 heating coils and a thermostat out of an old oven and I am half way there.
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  4. Trackwelder added a post in a topic NEW NOSE WHEEL INFO   

    Any information you have on a nose dragger conversion, I would be interested in, maybe you could send it with the parts.
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  5. Trackwelder added a post in a topic Wanting to build a baggage area under turtle deck   

    What type of plastic, and what thickness is your turtledeck?
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  6. Trackwelder added a post in a topic Contributing Membership??   

    Whas the paypal site and how much to be a lifetime member?
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  7. Trackwelder added a post in a topic Smart Diesel   

    the 120 has the bigger thread, but you have one person selling the complete outfit with engine the site you want is http://www.rotaryforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=37557&highlight=150+genesis+kit this is probably the best forum for alternative engines I have found, and the 150hp Yamaha seems to be the better or at least easier engine to convert, the Weber 750 MPE turbo would be my choice, but I don't have a mill so this would be the easiest way for me to go. Use the search function on the site it helps.
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  8. Trackwelder added a post in a topic Is anyone else having trouble signing on to this site   

    I wasn't sure he could understand the other system, and my phone gets enough calls that if I don't know you I won't answer, but  Thank You
     
     
     
     
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  9. Trackwelder added a post in a topic Is anyone else having trouble signing on to this site   

     I know I should change that to an Iowa number, but that is where my office was when I was in Management for the Union Pacific, now its in the middle of a football field. Glad to here that the problem isn't me, I don't have the best luck with computers, hopefully it stays up for a while I missed out on a bit while I concentrated on my Buttercup and I have a lot of Catching up to do, I went through my scrap pile and I have a bunch of 1/2 X .035, 5,8 X 049 and 3/4 X.049, I think I should be able to do something with that but I don,t want to overbuild. If my memory serves me right the original was 5/8 X.049 but I could use a double check on that.
     
     
    Private messaged your info to Ed...Joey
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  10. Trackwelder added a post in a topic Is anyone else having trouble signing on to this site   

    Email me direct  at xxxxxxxx
     
    Private Messaged Ed your info...Joey
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  11. Trackwelder added a post in a topic Bought an Avid Catalina kit.   

    I have wanted to build an Avid Amphibian since I first saw one, I never seem to be around when there is one for sale, or it happens to e as long of a trip as you made and my back doesn't take that kind of a trip any longer. From the pictures I have collected, including yours I have pretty well got the design down, its the fiberglass work I am having trouble deciphering, I have built boats and I have built tube and rag airplanes, Do you know how thick the fiberglass was on the bottom or Hull of your aircraft, the thickness on the top would help too, Being classified as disabled I have plenty of time to work out the math to design the aircraft,but there is very little information out there on designing an amphibian, any measurements that you felt like giving me would be appreciated, and a copy of manuals would be nice too, if you don't want to scan them, I would be willing to pay for copies.
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  12. Trackwelder added a post in a topic Smart Diesel   

    The Yamaha snowmobile engines are actually getting more flight time, the 120hp and the 150hp, there is a guy offering a kit for the 150hp at a reasonable price. www.rotaryforum.com
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  13. Trackwelder added a post in a topic Size matters.   

    I guess it was a good thing I lost that 210 lbs I had been carrying with me, I would have never gotten my Avid off the ground
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  14. Trackwelder added a topic in Avidfoxflyers General Hangar   

    Is anyone else having trouble signing on to this site
    Some days this site comes up no problem, some days it doesn't connect, is it me or is it the site?
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  15. Trackwelder added a post in a topic Removing 582 oil injection   

         Okay, stupid question time, but why are people taking the oil injection off of their 582's? I had pretty well put the Avid on hold when I got on the scales and was pushing close to 400lbs, Since Christmas I have dropped down to 170lbs and still dropping, I am back to putting the Avid together. I want the oil injection for the simplicity of being able to just put gas in the tank and oil in the other, I loved it when snowmobiles came up with this feature no more shaking a 5 gallon can for the JD 800 whoops I am starting to give away my age. We haven't had enough snow around here in years to justify spending 10 grand on a sled so everyone runs 4 wheelers and all 3 of mine are 4 stroke. I forgot, I got the one spare 9 that has oil injection so I guess I have two machines that are 2 stroke a Kasea 90 4 wheeler tha a dealer gave me when I bought a Honda Rincon from him it neede a new rubber intake boot between the carb and filter and a Yamaha snoscoot that I need to find a new home for, The last time I rode it was to try out the new track I put on it, my back doesn't take the abuse anymore.
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  16. Trackwelder added a post in a topic 582 been sitting   

    I have a 582 Greyhead for mine, it supposedly has just 75 hours on it and ran good when I took the plane apart to recover it, I was planning on tearing it down and decarboning it and replacing seals and gaskets while I am in there. I am also going the opposite way with the oil injection and putting it back on, I have found the manuals online, but I don't have the specialt tools. Any advice for the guy on a budget and what tools do I really need to tear it down and put it back together right. I have worked on Snowmobile engines before, but this will be the first watercooled one I have torn into. What should I be looking for when I get it opened up?
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  17. Trackwelder added a post in a topic New Sport Pilot Regs In the Making   

          I have one builders log on the internet, I am not even trying to keep track of time spent, I just take pictures every few days and put a little blurb about what I have done. My Avid was started by several other people and passed through multiple hands and by the time I got it the sand blaster blew holes in a few of the tubes, I have cut them out and replaced them with Later model spec material when I had to make a repair, along with some modifications like widening the fuselage rebuilding two different wings off of different aircraft added new wingtanks built new landing gear. I feel I have easily built more than 51% of the aircraft.
          M wife is into scrapbooking and has been keeping the builders log on the Avid, I still just take pictures and date them and she puts them in a scrap book saves a little work for me, I hope I can find a DAR that isn't too picky because all I have for a bill of sale is one that says airplane parts and invoices from Aircraft Spruce and Wicks, a lot of parts have been trades that I haven't kept very good records on taxes are high enough.
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  18. Trackwelder added a post in a topic Requirements for plane in uncontrolled airspace   

        I am just trying to get it in the air, I will probably add the rest of the stuff later, around here I have to deliberately head somewhere to even get close to class C airspace, I am surrounded by Class E nobody at the airports, and very few planes in the air, I have worked the past 7 days at my airport and the only plane I saw was just stopping in for fuel. On the drive home I saw 2 crop dusters, but nothing at my field. I wasn't sure what the cropdusters were doing since harvest has already started.
         I know not everyone has the freedom that I have, so putting th information about what is required up about each airspace would not hurt.
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  19. Trackwelder added a post in a topic Requirements for plane in uncontrolled airspace   

    Yes, I understood that he was talking transponder, really there has been no reason I have wanted to fly into a bigger airport, I can get fuel at a small airport, and unless I start doing a lot of cross country I can fly outside the airspace around here. The small airports have courtesy cars usually the towns old police car and I can get closer to where I want to go, I have flown into Tea South Dakota to make a trip to the VA hospital and it is easier to stop in borrow their car and drive to the hospital, it beats the hassle of driving to Souix Falls or even getting around at their Big airport. A transponder is on my list but not really for this plane, the Buttercup I am building will travel at twice the speed on about the same fuel, the Avid is for touch and Goes and landing in back pastures.
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  20. Trackwelder added a post in a topic Requirements for plane in uncontrolled airspace   

         The Ameriking cost me about $150 and it allows me to broadcast, I figure with all of these government shutdowns I am better of trusting other pilots to find me than Uncle Sam. The Big cost on most of them is the batteries the Ameriking uses D cells every year I can put them in a flashlight and put new batteries in the ELT, I am afraid the ELT is going to be needed even without an electrical system, I think the only exception might be a single seat aircraft. Another thing to worry about if you get ramp checked.
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  21. Trackwelder added a topic in Introduce yourself   

    I,m Back Trackwelder
        I got caught up in building another plane and was going to sell the Avid, I finally got a ride in a Kitfox that someone had received a LODA on for Taildragger experience, I had flown a Sport Cub and the Kitfox with Speed wing was so much easier to fly that I have decided to finish the Avid I don't know if it will be first but as parts come in for one I will work on it and I will race to finish one or the other.
         All I have left to do on the Avid is firewall, rudder pedals (someone took mine) windshield and go through the 582 greyhead it is supposed to only have 75 hours on it but I want to check it out and be sure.
         I am finding that building airplanes is addictive but I want to fly one too. I am glad to see that the sight has grown and is still active, I kept getting error messages when I tried to sign on and it finally showed up, I will have a blast building and flying this plane, I will send pictures as soon as I can.
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  22. Trackwelder added a post in a topic Waned Avid Mark IV or Kitfox Bump Cowl   

    I know that I will have to combine my parts with whatever I can find to fix this up, so please send pictures of what you have I just want to modernize the looks a little before I start flying it and concentrating on my Buttercup build.
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  23. Trackwelder added a post in a topic Requirements for plane in uncontrolled airspace   

    Thank you, I will rarely travel outside of the 50 mile area, but there is always a chance, I guess I could wait to install it until I fly off my hours. were you the one that put in the piper style pedal linkage in your plane,any chance of a picture? 
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  24. Trackwelder added a post in a topic Requirements for plane in uncontrolled airspace   

    How about the ELT is the old style still legal, I have an Ameriking 150 I haven't pulled out of the box yet, I would rather not get a new one, unless I lose a wing I can  put down on almost any gravel road  I can't get more than a mile away from one and normally I am within a half mile.
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  25. Trackwelder added a post in a topic Requirements for plane in uncontrolled airspace   

    I fly in Iowa my field is EGQ or Emmetsburg, IA, I will still be looking for a DAR especially with this government shutdown.
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