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Just make sure you don't do the same thing That tube will need a slight bend so it doesn't foul on the landing gear channel too. It is not a terribly special piece of material, it may be simpler to get another piece of tube and remake it using the old one for a pattern. I haven't yet worked out why that hole he buggered up wasn't already drilled anyway, I am sure it was on mine. The hole that usually gives the most grief is the one through the rear end of the torque tube. If you get it wrong your joystick will not be centred when the control surfaces are in the neutral position.

Bet he wears glasses!

How many chrome moly framed planes get bent and rebuilt?

I was down at the hangar last thing, mine needs some love, some hangar time just for it. Needs a wash too, a lot of dust blows in off the gravel road.

Don't use a modern Rotax float! Apparently they sink, I have to change mine before I can start my new engine.

Which forum do you have to read to get updates from the technical manager? What user name?

You won't mind popping down to SA will you?

That simply means it wasn't a rant, but a lecture.

That steam coming out of your ears is fogging up my glasses.

But on the other hand you shouldn't refrain from saying what you would say to their face on a forum either, for everyone who speaks their mind, maybe 4 or 5 just lurk, wishing they had asked the same question or got a response to the same comment.

Say it again Rick!

Still would be very unsatisfactory to the guy who has paid the deposits on a kit but hasn't got possession yet. Guess he could see this coming when he did his due diligence.

That is a lot fairer than a rigid six month transition as was previously suggested. There is no safety advantage to be had with a rush to a deadline!

The message that came out earlier was that we would have a six month transition period to allow started builds onto the register. The six months was obviously set by someone who has never built a plane or has only worked in an aircraft factory because I am betting the average time of an owner build is considerably more than twice that.

It is past time to break the MONOPOLY! The argument against another registration and licencing organisation has always been that our membership will have less influence on the regulators and the minister if we divide our critical mass. Well that argument, usually spouted by people who went on the join the board, is total crap because the membership has NO INFUENCE ON OUR ASSOCIATION let alone anyone else so we now have everything to gain and bugger all to lose.

This must mean we now have the remains of six months to get our partly built kits flying and registered. Mine is not that far off, only a bit of painting and engine install to go. It was always meant to be a hobby I did when I have the time and inclination, not a race to the finish. There is no way my build can go back and be stage inspected from where I am up to, so I wonder where I will end up if it takes me seven months to get it finished. Pity I started before RAA entered their latest spiral dive!

why won't a rotax filter fit?

I used my wife for my second rotating pivot. At Aerokits we often talked about setting up two engine cranes but I dont think he ever did it. If you havent rivetted the sheets on, you can get them on a hard flat surface and rub a lot of those marks out with a smooth faced steel hammer. Might need to polish the hammer face on an oil stone to make it really smooth and use lube on the dented surface so it doesnt drag on the surface. By the time it is primed to paint you wont see it.

Once you get all the sheets clecoed up then a pair of rotating stands would be a better setup for riveting off the sheets. Two engine stands would be the go.

Not much wider than the finished fuselage or you spend far too much time reaching in over the edge of your bench. Put lots of bubble wrap on the boards that you put under it to hold it away from the clecoes. I got a little bit of bruising on my lower sheet when a blowing little storm went past my open carport where I was building and it moved on the timber even though it was well tied down.

I was interested in how a bucks party with four people in a light plane works. Wonder which one was the stripper?

Bucks party group in light plane escape uninjured after emergency landing in Sydney paddock

Those Aerokits ones are put together with Loctite so you need to heat it if you want to get it apart without wrecking something. I used my soldering iron shoved up the barb on the fitting when I wanted to get them apart to change the setup. I was unhappy with the tight bends in the hose to line up with the barbs, so added a 90 degree elbow to each and mounted them higher so I can reach them easier.

Must have been flying backwards, that would explain it!

Then there are others who have concerns about the demise of what were once our member services in our former member driven monopoly licencing organisation, being given away to companies who for what ever reason deliver a service which is only a shadow of what was given away on our behalf.