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Marty_d

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  1. Like the Waterford crystal factory in Ireland (I lived in County Waterford for a while).  

    If you do the factory tour they show you people blowing glass, then you go to another room where you stand behind a rope curtain and watch half a dozen skilled workers painstakingly cutting the grooves into the crystal glasses by hand.

    Then you kind of think... hold on, how many sets of glasses do they sell each day worldwide?  And we're supposed to believe that 3 glass-blowers and 6 people with Dremels are supplying that...?

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  2. 6 minutes ago, turboplanner said:

    The wire barriers are deflecting B Doubless back on the road and at the same time acting like arrestor cables on aircraft carriers for motor cyclists. There were some wire barrier fatalities earlier due to incorrect installation.

     

    If you're talking about the multi-strand steel cable barriers threaded through steel posts, they're more like cheese graters for motorcyclists.

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  3. Used to be, you could be certain of a "buffer" (usually 10%) where they wouldn't pull you over.  So doing 106 in a 100 zone was pretty safe.

     

    I think the rot set in with Victoria first, pulling people over for 1 or 2 km/h over the limit.  Now here in Tassie there's "Over is over" signs all over the highways promising zero tolerance.

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  4. 10 hours ago, Christin said:

    So, generally speaking, don't use etch primer AND black stuff I got out of this. So I'm still not sure what I should do to prevent corrosion apart from using the black stuff. I'll be flying coastal A LOT, the plane will be outside and I won't always have access to fresh water to hose it down straight away. I'm just concerned if bare metal is left inside the plane I'll regret not having done anything in a few years. 

    The bloke who did the first inspection of my 701 advised me to get a spray inhibitor - think it was Cor-Ban - and said it misted so well that even giving a few blasts into the wings through the root lightening holes would give a good coating.

    Unfortunately I bought the wrong one by mistake - ended up with avionics corrosion inhibitor which doesn't mist well at all.

    In any case something like that or ACF-50 which seems to be heavily advertised when you search "Aircraft Anti Corrosion spray" could be an option.

    If you're rolling the black stuff neatly then maybe you could tape over it after it's dry and spray the rest of the part with either etch primer or a corrosion inhibitor.

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