You can get lengths of the material through Mcmaster Carr. Steve Hagar hagargs@earthlink.net Does anyone have a pair of OR2 nylon outrigger legs for a mono that I can obtain? I have changed to a larg
Roll then spray everything to give a uniform base for successive painting. Also you want to be able to sand everything the same and not worry about specific areas of the plane. Steve Hagar hagargs@ea
Twenty hours are on the plane now. Was out yesterday for 2 and a half hours and burned 9.1 gallons of gas. Landings in the mon-wheel are becomming a non-event. Eight T&g's and 1 full stop resulted in
My outriggers are slightly short and do not both touch the same time. The trick is to ignore any rocking from side to side and just keep it straight with the rudder. To date I do not even find myself
Ron: I have changed the intake nostrils on the cowl to the 914 and have had very good luck with keeping it cool in the AZ heat. The original round configuration has the exhaust headers centered in th
Find someone with a numerically controlled water jet machine. I had both my radio subpanel and instrument panel done for $70. With a water jet there is not tool changing and no need to do any deburri
Ron, Good photograph of your panel. I see you have the Becker xpndr and radio. That is what I put in my plane and have been nothing but happy with them. I'm surprised more people aren't using them. t
I'm ordering 3/4" 4130 tubing 3/16 wall and turning it down to 16.5 mm. Length to suite the distance to just shy of the through bolts going into the fuselage. Steve Hagar hagargs@earthlink.net
Make a lap shear test coupon of fiberglass bid the same number of layers or strength of what you want to bond together. If the fiberglass breaks before your lap joint debonds or pulls apart you can b
Yes that is the thing to do. Follow the headrest angle. Have flown cross country with this setup without any back pain in Erich Trombley's plane and have set my plane like this with good results. Ste
Why not go with powder coating it is more durable than paint and looks good too. Everything metal part I could fit in my oven got powder coated. Steve Hagar a143 Mesa AZ Just finished mod 72
Yes; Typically they come back, only when there is an incident or accident. A homebuilt crashed here once several years back. A newspaper crew came by to interview a homebuilder (me) and take some pho
Fred: No matter how good you clean your tank and system you can't clean it good enough. I spent days and days. Soap, water. multiple flushes with gasoline, compressed air, vacuuming etc. I felt fat a
Fred: My filters were upstream of the fuel seletor which meant they were basically at the outlet of each tank feed. I thought this was reasonable and so did everyone else who gave it a cursury look.
I have been keeping out of the fray as I did not want to add to the 30 or so E mails every night. This doesn't apply to the European types as they must pay homage to the PFA. I am surprised to note t
After having the aircraft down for awhile with the fuel tank drained to avoid having stale gas present I noted a leak upon gassing it up. I was going to bring it over to Phoenix Composites to have th
For those of you who replied on your experiences in swapping out the tank in the fully built plane, thanks a bunch it has driven me to not dred the job. I am one of those guys who goes with the adage
Jerry: Where did you get that boot for the prop blade? Steve Hagar A143 Mesa AZ For those of you looking for something to keep the sun off most of the plane and the occasional rain. I purchased a Kel
I don't know if this is a continuation of my issue of my fuel tank crack that I wrote about on the 16 th of August but the crack showed up after refilling a tank that had been previously always kept
My crack was right along one of the support straps. kit purchased in 1999 steve Hagar A143 Mesa, AZ All, With respect to the fuel tanks cracking/splitting . . . . 1 Have cracks in the fuel tanks been