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Saw a lot of LED mini spotlights for motorcycles on ebay for sale - no size listed - anyone know how big and how much light they produce?   Thinking about recognition lights using them.

EDMO

Herman,

       What are the round things at the top of the struts?  some kind of lights?  Nice looking plane.

EDMO

Here ya go! You can buy cigarette lighter plugs at walmart or any auto parts store. I have 2 in mine under my panel. One is for my radio and the other I use to charge my cell phone when I'm away from home on trips.

http://www.amazon.com/Icom-CP-20-Cigarette-Lighter-Cable/dp/B003VSCG96

Dam you Leni,you might have cost me $400 bucks telling us about those tires.

Joey, thanks for the heads up on the power supply. I'm still looking for one. do you have a link to the one you are talking about?

that must be some power house to be able to go full vertical like that and still be able to pull his sister along for the ride!!

From the reports that I have seen, many U.S. cities have doubled their normal snowfall, and the temps have mostly been a lot colder, for a lot longer than normal - While Alaska got less snow and was warmer than our upper 24 states.  Election time is in November here, and I will be voting to give it back to Alaska next winter.

EDMO

I have heard that the 5-foot-long Swiss mufflers are so quiet that you need a horn to warn people at the airport - only hear the prop - This is because they have the most restrictive noise regulations - you are quiet, or you are grounded!

A friend of mine put a 2.5 Soob in his RV and added a muffler sold in the U.S that almost made his that quiet - it had some changeable baffles in it - cant remember the name of it right now.

EDMO

Weather on the prairies north of the 49th has been so crappy these last 2 springs.More often than not I've managed to have my plane up and flying in mid to late march and now...May 4 and I haven't spun the prop yet?If it isn't cold and wet its cold and windy and that pattern is interrupted by typical bouts of cold and dry! cold cold cold !

The pc680 is an AGM battery and yes, they charge like a normal battery and can be mounted in any position.

If you have a radiator, it's not a 503, if it has one spark plug per cylinder, it's a 532, dual plugs, most likely a 582.  Also, most 532s had an A style gear box.  Jim Chuk

EXCuse mE!?!

Thats not a GeeBee! That's a super duper ultra fast XLi GLX Super Bee with some Gee! ^™ in it!

The thing stalls at 189 Miles per hour and flying it is like taming a angry bush animal.

I would know because I flew single engine fighter planes in the war. This thing, gents, is a completely different kind of flying, altogether!!!

Just ask the pilot, he's holding on to that cowling getting ready for a turn, and that Schnulli (mouthpiece oxygen enhancer) is going on high gear!

The engine will have a placard on the crankcase "mag" side, side opposite the prop.  The placard will say "type 582, type 503....etc.  About 1.5x2.5 inches in size, black.

Thanks a lot for the pictures! It's interesting seeing how it compares to the original. If you have a chance to measure the tube diameters, that would be great too.

Thanks again,

Luke D.

I used the concentrated heat of a plastic welder to soften the glue. Works not bad. Very much like a small concentrated heat gun.

Here are some pics of the seat truss mod on my Mark IV.

Here are some pics of my muffler. It's only about 2 feet long. Didn't have a tape. I guess it's a mini swiss muffler. Not real quiet but it does sound good!

All,

Trying to figure out the engine on a Avid Flyer. The plane has a radiator on the belly. The Intake is on the right side of the engine (if your sitting in the cockpit). I am a newbie on the rotax engines.  

Thanks in Advance.

Leni: no worries, you had me second guessing the two header tanks for a second there!

Luke: the PO left me all kinds of Hysol presents!

Thanks to both of you for the heat tip!

One of my double puck calipers has both pistons stuck like Chuck! I got the other calipers pistons out by forcing air into the caliper. I tried it on this one and nothing happened. I tried soaking it in some WD-40, then some carb cleaner, and basically anything that eats corrosion, and they are still stuck!

Any ideas?

Has anybody tried drilling and tapping a shallow hole in the piston face, then threading a bolt in it to get some kind of turning force to break it loose?

Thanks,

Ron

Those 680 batteries - are they dry-cells? - and does your alternator system charge them just like lead-acid batteries?

EDMO

A lot of things get powder coated - including fuselages - I am just telling what the engine mount "experts" said, "Powder coating forms a solid shield, which may not show cracks in welds".   And, I have heard the same from others.

 Personally, I don't like PC, but guess it is cheaper than epoxy paint for sales purposes.

That other coating - Anodize - that was put on aluminum - was not so great either, because we found corrosion under it on lots of propeller parts when we inspected them.

EDMO

Nothing a few grand can't take care of

Gotta a kid that loves a geebee

Looks like they are having a great time

Attlee powder coats all the engine mounts. Powder coat will crack through like paint, but especially on a seaplane mount it will help with corrosion issues like mine had.