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Just sent some. Thanks for doing the heavy lfting

paypal works

akflyer_2000@yahoo.com

Thanks guys!

Thank you Sir!  Site has pretty much been on autopilot but lately the russian hackers have been trying hard to get in and I have been busy in the background trying to keep the site up.  I think everyone has been hit hard the last few years $$ wise, but I will always do my best to keep the site up and running, even though it seems FB has taken over and replaced most forums these days.

Egads has it really been that long?  :o(   Sorry Lenny, it's been a few rough years

Let's keep this site going folks!!!

I have the following "stuff that needs to go: Projects that aren't gonna happen.

Peery Experimental Propeller (wood) 64 dia 54 pitch LH tractor. Rotax pattern :Looks good, you determine application and airworthiness. $400 plus shipping

IVO two blade Ultralight, 72 dia ground adjustable LH Tractor: Rotax pattern $600 plus shipping

Right hand STOL wing, heavy hauler . .083 spars. Needs some work. Has fuel tank. Make offer, you move.

Horiz stab off Avid. Make offer

Rudder off early Kitfox. Make offer

Items located in Central PA

Drop  me an e mail.

Bob McCaa   N5113H;N533SE

OK.  I can see the forward sweep.  The difference is obvious when you see them side by side.   I was thinking about using a third party landing gear eventually but now I know not to do any work on these. 

Thanks! 

yep, it's a tricycle gear.  With your gear, you see the wheel is centered between the upper mounting points.  The taildragger gear has the wheel slightly ahead of the front attachment point.  Notice this picture.  JImChuk

You have tricycle gear in the TW position. Tailwheel gear has longer legs and is swept forward.

Jim will eventually respond and in all likely hood say it is a tricycle landing gear. when you first posted pictures of the project someone was pointing this out. 

So I am finally getting started on my Avid kit.  Someone already mentioned that it doesn't look like I have the correct front gear for a tailwheel setup.  The manual say that the gear for tailwheel is longer than that for a tricycle, but it does not say by how much.  What I have measures at 20".   I was likely going to use something besides the stock gear anyway.  Can anyone help with this first mystery?

The edges on my box were 1) highly irregular and 2) too tall, pressing down on the frame and up on the seat pan.   So, I cut them off, and glued with safety wire the pan to the frame.  I also didn't like the way it would have cut into the formed seat "truss" on the botton of the pan, so made the access door smaller than the box to avoid the truss.  I split foam tubing for the seat-to-box edge interface- no pics of that. 

Went with a step, but didn't like the idea of stressing the gear leg too much. ordered some 1" ID tubing, split that, then welded a bar support to those, and pop-riveted those to the gear legs.

Am about to cover the gear- this was one of those "stopping places" - need to get the fuse up on gear.  Welds aren't pretty (one reason I didn't want to mess with the gear legs directly). The inserts are rivnuts.

Onward.

Nice!

This is barely a technical task, but I thought that it was necessary.  As I am sorting through all of the parts that came with the plane that I just bought I wanted to put the wings in a safer place.  This is a simple design from an old EAA article.  I followed it pretty closely.  I bough new casters instead of the recommended salvaged roller skate wheels.   The only problem that I ran into is that my CAD 2x4's are a lot straighter than what you can get from Home Depot.

Very nice.  Keep us updated on your progress.  JImChuk

It was a long drive this weekend, but I was able to bring my Avid home.   There is quite a bit to go through and to figure out what I have and do not have.  There are two boxes of documentation to sort out first.

But I just wanted to share the beginning of the journey finishing this plane.

Sounds good, thanks JImChuk! 

Jabiru, Australia has a good supply of parts. I just bought new barrels for my A Series 2200.

I run Rotec water-cooled heads which I love but it does require fitting pumps and a radiator which is a big job.

Were I to do it all again I would purchase a brand new Jabiru as they have alloy barrels that cure many ills and the price is amazing compared to a Rotax.

If it's a sling seat, it should fit.  I was measuring a Kitfox seat and Avid fiberglass seats recently, and it seemed like the back part of the Kitfox was 1" longer.  I do have a spare Kitfox fiberglass seat from a Kitfox 2.  Depending on what motor you were using in the Kitfox, the Avid cowl may work.  582 is spark plugs up in a Kitfox and inverted in the Avid, so for that the Kitfox cowl is a lot taller.  With a 912 though, it would be a lot closer.  I was actually going to use an Avid cowl on my Kitfox 4 with 912 build.  I have since sourced a Kitfox smooth cowl and will go with it.  If you meant elevator and horizontal stabilizer, it could probably be made to work with some modification, the MK IV elevator had a built in trim tab and I seem to remember the elevator is larger than earlier Avids.  This is my Kitfox 4 with Avid MK IV cowl.  It looks short because I have a modified longer motor mount.  The standard Kitfox 4 912 mount puts the engine about 4" further back.  JImChuk

Could anybody tell me if the following Avid parts would suit a Kitfox fuselage?

- elevator and vertical stab

- seats 

- engine cowling

without too complex modifications!

#Landcruisinmy93 do you have McBean's contact info?

Thanks

following...

Here you go. Let me know if you need more

The reason I was asking for this is I plan to make templates for the KitFox type rib tails. When I got my plane, one wing had ALL the Flapperon Hangerons broken off. I originally was going to fix them with wood and later decided I liked the KitFox aluminum setup much better.

Since I am an EAA member, I downloaded (and plan to learn how to use) Solid Edge. Fortunately, our company has an ME that knows Solid Works and could probably help me get started with Solid Edge. Coincidentally we both share the name Keith.

A big THANK YOU to Jim Chuk

EDIT: If I get workable templates made for all the parts, I certainly will post them on the forum.

Hey Jim I copied the first page to photos on my IPad and printed it out measuring the mouth that fits over the spar it looks good and I will verify it with my spare at the airport hopefully later today.