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My VW rim with the 11.5mm hole is typical of automotive rims with the valve stem shown. Your valve stem is very short so I'm guessing the brass insert for the valve extends down to the area you need to compress. That's going to make it very difficult. You could just go with automotive valve stems although the length might run into the hub making inflation difficult.
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I just measured a VW rim that is 11.5mm, about the usual size. If pulled through from the inside out very little effort is required. I have this little tool just because it was as cheap as chips on TEMU but a normal "T" shaped valve tool from your local auto parts store will easily do it. You are correct the valve stem od is 14.5mm but it easily compresses into the 11.5mm hole.
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Don't do too much for now. I've got valve stems and a rim or two so I'll measure it. Normally you'll just lube it a little with anything suitable for rubber, silicone grease, tyre lube, lanolin grease, soap or whatever. The valve stem is inserted from the inside and pulled through to the outside using a suitable puller made for the job (it screws on where the valve cap fits). Fitting it takes perhaps five seconds all up.
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This will be a bit of an eye opener for those knockers of nitrogen power. I think you'll see it take off in the not too distant future. I'd love to be there but I'll be leaving for the 1200km trip south to Esperance to continue and hopefully complete my flying lessons.
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I hate the way our legal system had degraded the the point where somebody must always be held accountable for a mistake made by an individual. (An inquest into the death of a recreational pilot whose Jabiru plane crashed in the Victorian high country has heard that, at the time, other pilots on the ground considered the weather poor.) I think it's clear that other more experienced pilots voiced their opinion that it was too risky to fly in that weather. This pilot chose to take a risk and tragically died due to his own decisions. I'm not saying that improvements shouldn't be recommended and implemented but do we have to have a bunch of get-rich-quick legal vultures involved?
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I don't think anybody can safely fly with a big furry pussy in their line of sight.
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A bit like the toll roads?
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Cessna 172 runs out of fuel during a lesson
Moneybox replied to danny_galaga's topic in Aircraft Incidents and Accidents
During my lessons on every downwind leg of the circuit I had to make the radio call to the tower stating my intentions, then go through the checks, brakes firm, seat belts tight, fuel in each tank (swap if necessary), oil pressure, temperature etc. It was highly unlikely we could ever run out of fuel. -
Is this something to do with the military aircraft arriving at Avalon of did we get a little off the theme of this thread?
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Unless you forgot to turn the ADSB off 🤣
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They are forecasting this weather to move towards the coast. This plane is in a hanger on a hill. If you have a plane closer to the Queensland coast it might be a good time to make sure it's secured and on high ground.
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Wait until I get my airstrip done with a trip wire on either end triggering a camera. I'll make a fortune off the kangaroos and emus 😁
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That's a deterrent from making radio calls. Not exactly promoting safety is it.
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There was a big push and incentives for LPG vehicle conversions back in the 90's but you're flat finding any bowsers in WA now. They've all been removed, perhaps we ran out of gas 😉.
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Are there no facilities to fly in for the Avalon air show? I thought that would be the preferred way to attend.
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We flew a Hummer in on Malaysian Airlines in 2005. The vehicle only weighed about 3.5T but it was strapped to a huge steel skid that must have weighed nearly as much. It was for a Pommy tourist who eventually disappeared. I was left with a $60,000 GST payment on his behalf. Actually that looks to be too much, I really don't remember the debt now but we escaped it in the end. I was given the choice of destroying it or exporting it. I packed it into a container, exported it to Singapore and brought it back as a used vehicle at a fraction of the value and a fraction of the GST payable.
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Yes, with trucking in many cases the freight is loaded at its source and delivered to its destination without further handling. In the early days of rail in Australia there were may spur rail lines in the town and cities. Most of those spur rails have gone so access to rail is inconvenient for regular freight. Perhaps we'll soon have unmanned flying machines picking freight up and dropping it right on the spot where it's needed or will the weight of the batteries exceed the weight of the freight?
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May be true however we have ample coal, oil and gas in Australia if we used our own. Why ship it out just to buy it back at inflated prices?
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Batteries are only part of the deception. There are solar panels, their manufacture and installation. Then there are the wind turbines, their towers, blades, massive tracts of vegetation cleared to install them and of course all the man hours and machinery involved. Most of the data you see is pointing at the free energy produced. Unfortunately it's not free and certainly in the short term much more expensive financially and environmentally than the modern fossil fuel power generation.
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But there's still the mining and manufacture of the batteries that don't fit in with the definition of clean energy. They'll try to convince the public that we're using zero emission energy but that's a long way from the truth. A bit like they tried to convince us that we were running out of fossil fuels in the 70's. It's all propaganda and the majority seem to believe it.
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Marty, Take a look at Page-33 in SP issue 111. HP Aviation hoses.
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The statement on exceeding Vne at high altitude is interesting. The article states due to the lower air density you could exceed Vne by TAS even thought the IAS is within limits however I'd argue that due to the lower air density the plane would not be likely to exceed it's structural design.
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I think the rest of the article from Page 80-83 explain it in detail. Quite a good informative read. I actually picked up the previous magazine by mistake, still unopened, and found another interesting article on building your own airstrip. It seemed relevant right now 😄
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Just weigh any fluid you remove.
