Author: John Cliff <mx@crixbinfield.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 14:42:48
Anyone know what gauge wire is supposed to be used for the wire which earths the casing of the Rotax regulator ? What have people used successfully ? John Cliff
Author: John Cliff <mx@crixbinfield.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 09:37:21
.............. Thanks, chaps. With no description of the action of the 'regulator' (which is clearly not the same as one for a wound-field alternator), it was not obvious whether the return path was
Author: John Cliff <mx@crixbinfield.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 22:21:05
In the factory newsletter issue 25 a case was reported of an 'imprint' of the moulded pipe appearing on the aircraft outer skin. It was suggested, as a precaution, that several plies of BID be applie
Author: John Cliff <mx@crixbinfield.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 22:24:18
< snip> Could you elaborate ? What governs what radio one may fit in a homebuilt in the UK ? John Cliff P.S. Thanks to those who responded on the filler pipe 'imprint'.
Author: John Cliff <mx@crixbinfield.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 09:37:31
You take an old cleco and grind a cutting edge into the offset tip, then use it as a boring tool (with the shank oiled) through the hinge hole. Deuce ! ( only kidding, I used a standard drill too ..
Author: John Cliff <mx@crixbinfield.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 13:00:23
The Engine Manual supplied with my engine kit (912S) is Issue 1 and describes fabrication of the oil tank mounting bracket from the steel sheet. A later Engine Manual (Issue 2, from the Club website)
Author: John Cliff <mx@crixbinfield.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 18:06:01
I have got round to fitting an early XS exhaust system, made by Heggemann, p/n 25-00200. Among the bag of bits with it are two aluminium flanges, such as you might use to connect ducting, though the
Author: John Cliff <mx@crixbinfield.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 18:41:39
Could be. The orange plastic bag, marked 877076, contains (in addition to the screwdriver, allen wrench and tube spanner and tommy bar) a threaded rod about 50mm long, possibly M8, with a round spig
Author: John Cliff <mx@crixbinfield.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 11:05:54
I raised this a week or two ago for an early XS exhaust (a Heggemann). The saddle flanges were provided to fabricate a cabin heat source by attaching around holes made in the shroud surronding the s
Author: John Cliff <mx@crixbinfield.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 10:27:28
You will not, of course, need a calibration weight if the only application is to build your a/c. All that matters is the linearity, i.e. that a reading of, say, 100g really is 4 times as much as a r
Author: John Cliff <mx@crixbinfield.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 10:05:06
Does anyone have any use for an uncut pair of Classic cowlings, before they gp to the tip ? (Moving house) Free to a good home (I live near Bracknell, Berks., UK) John Cliff
Author: John Cliff <mx@crixbinfield.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 10:47:52
building a cradle for the fuselage. Other than a trial and error method I can't think of a way to copy the curvature of the bottom of the fuselage. One simple way I heard of was to get some soft, sm
Author: John Cliff <mx@crixbinfield.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 18:54:35
Offering the radiator up inside the duct leaves a total gap (sum of both ends) of about 18mm between radiator ends and duct side plates. Have other people found this ? If so did you use tubular space
Author: John Cliff <mx@crixbinfield.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 09:09:02
have seized and 2) without the flaps the wings plug in easily, with the flaps it is a pig. Yes, I found that one of my flap drive pins was badly shaped, oversize round the circumference of the hemis
Author: John Cliff <mx@crixbinfield.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:57:55
As as alternative to enclosing the cables in Nylaflow tubing, one or two people have installed extra tufnol rubbing blocks to hold the cables clear of the scenery in the tank tunnel area. John Cliff
Author: John Cliff <mx@crixbinfield.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 09:08:32
Well, my experience with Light Aero Spares has been fairly positive. I order only by phone and you get to hear if something isn't in stock. The prices are in the catalogue, so if you don't like them
Author: John Cliff <mx@crixbinfield.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 02:52:44
The traditional reason for requiring a secondary fuel gauge to a capacitance gauge, as I understand it, is that a capacitance gauge requires a supply of elecricity (which is not infallible) and that