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- Fri Mar 20, 2015 3:21 am
- Forum: Aircraft Construction & Maintenance
- Topic: Welding your own fusalage
- Replies: 20
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Re: Welding your own fusalage
If PFA Metals Northampton are still trading, they used to sell 4130 offcuts for practice welding and machining.
- Tue Jan 06, 2015 4:55 pm
- Forum: Aircraft Construction & Maintenance
- Topic: VW mechanical fuel pumps
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3156
Re: VW mechanical fuel pumps
Martin - can't help with the fuel pump but how did you get on with the Colibri build. Is it a one piece wing spar.
Bill.
Bill.
- Sat Oct 04, 2014 6:16 pm
- Forum: Hangar Chat
- Topic: RV 9 import from the States
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5583
Re: RV 9 import from the States
If all seems OK, fly it back via Greenland, Iceland and Wick in the far north !
- Mon Sep 29, 2014 2:49 pm
- Forum: Hangar Chat
- Topic: Grass
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5803
Re: Grass
I sow my agricultural fields at 16Kg per acre and that is 1Kg more than recommended - 50Kg per acre seems extreme !
- Thu Sep 25, 2014 6:46 am
- Forum: Hangar Chat
- Topic: sluka fuel
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4581
Re: sluka fuel
A Mr Funnel is difficult to hold upright when trying to pour from a jerry can. Make up a velcro band to hold it to framework. The tank neck is quite fragile so don't rest the jerry can on the funnel. You could lash out and purchase a hand pump if you find it difficult pouring from the can.
- Sun Sep 21, 2014 8:34 am
- Forum: Aircraft Construction & Maintenance
- Topic: VW pulled stud
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8481
Re: VW pulled stud
Nick - too late now but did you use thread lubricant on the studs. If so, for the torque applied, the studs would be overstressed. In addition, torque wrenches, even new ones, are notoriously innacurate, sometimes out by 25%. For the pulled stud - is there sufficient "meat" for a thread insert (heli...
- Fri Sep 19, 2014 3:24 pm
- Forum: Hangar Chat
- Topic: Grass
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5803
Re: Grass
Get an amenity grass mix from an agricultural seed supplier. It will be less vigourous than a farm field mixture.
- Wed Sep 10, 2014 7:17 am
- Forum: Hangar Chat
- Topic: Rally 2014
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3594
Re: Rally 2014
I am from the far north where it stays pretty cold but had to buy a fleece to keep warm in that biting wind in Sywell. It was a great outing again and the five and a half hour flight from Wick was a good learning experience. No worries about a Channel crossing now as on the return flight (same fligh...
- Thu Sep 04, 2014 11:58 am
- Forum: Aircraft Construction & Maintenance
- Topic: Rivet gun choices
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10264
Re: Rivet gun choices
I find that Ingersoll Rand make good stuff. They do one that does from eight inch to three eights rivets, with a light touch starter facility. Were you at the rally - LAS had a box of second hand ones there.
- Thu Jul 31, 2014 9:31 am
- Forum: Aircraft Construction & Maintenance
- Topic: Bleeding Piel Emeraude brakes
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5292
Re: Bleeding Piel Emeraude brakes
Use a disposable 20ml syringe.
- Wed Jul 30, 2014 2:07 pm
- Forum: Aircraft Construction & Maintenance
- Topic: Bleeding Piel Emeraude brakes
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5292
Re: Bleeding Piel Emeraude brakes
If you have easy access to the bleed nipple, we did exactly the same procedure as above - it naturally pushes the "bubbles" uphill, but watch your reservoir level.
- Mon Jun 30, 2014 7:18 pm
- Forum: Hangar Chat
- Topic: Recommendations for Headsets
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8130
Re: Recommendations for Headsets
Lynx Relai - never let me down.
- Thu Jun 05, 2014 7:39 pm
- Forum: Aircraft Construction & Maintenance
- Topic: Pitot Tube Bending
- Replies: 15
- Views: 14234
Re: Pitot Tube Bending
Dave - as a matter of interest, and if you don't mind, why are you fitting aluminium tubing throughout ?
- Sun May 04, 2014 9:46 am
- Forum: Aircraft Construction & Maintenance
- Topic: Open cockpit edging
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5344
Re: Open cockpit edging
Google "metal edge protection strip" - there is a large selection of cross sections available. For holes in sheeting use grommets of the type used for electrical cables.
- Tue Apr 22, 2014 6:51 am
- Forum: Aircraft Construction & Maintenance
- Topic: rudder cable pull test question
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5480
Re: rudder cable pull test question
As I see it , he wants to check that they had been proof tested after being made up and therefore should have been issued with test certs.