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  1. rankamateur
    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!
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    why won't a rotax filter fit?
  3. rankamateur
    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    I was interested in how a bucks party with four people in a light plane works. Wonder which one was the stripper?
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    Bucks party group in light plane escape uninjured after emergency landing in Sydney paddock
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    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.
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    Must have been flying backwards, that would explain it!
  10. rankamateur
    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.
  11. rankamateur
    Do you have the modified axle with the steel bolt right trough? The head of the original bolt is drilled for safety wire maybe but it goes in the spare parts bag and the steel through bolt replaces it with the nyloc nuts.
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    Got your full rego yet Guy?
  13. rankamateur
    That is the plate in the centre at the top. From memory I needed to change the front rivet in the extruded angular on each side for a countersunk rivet so the head didn't hold the L brackets on the engine mount away from the angular, then everything lined up.
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    the L brackets on the bottom have to go under the fuselage and the holes in the top have to line up with the holes in the pad on the cabin frame. I caused myself some grief by drilling through the cabin frame into the firewall instead of through the engine mount into the firewall but it worked out right in the end.
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    Replacement. Put the others aside. Better than having to pull it all apart to swap then like I am about to do.
  16. rankamateur
    My concern was really only it's similarity to MH370.
  17. rankamateur
    Is it just my dyslexia or does HM380L give you some feeling of unease.
  18. rankamateur
    Is it an English as second language problem? Both crews claim to have had clearance.
  19. rankamateur
    Jetstar says their approved flight path was breached by AirAsia flight Good outcome to avoid another terrorist attack, as it no doubt would have been reported.
  20. rankamateur
    There are enough Savannah's around that you can chose to move on if you find one owned by one of the other sort of blokes.
  21. rankamateur
    Travis, click on the little envelope with the red 1 beside it in you left hand margin.
  22. rankamateur
    No Cookies | Daily Telegraph Another three person ultralight incident, that will give the CEO something real to worry about.
  23. rankamateur
    I got duded, nothing new. Buyer beware.
  24. rankamateur
    Just not sufficient power to pull over the power line. Power line 1, helicopter nil. Next contest.
  25. rankamateur
    I have my Jaycar one in my hand, just note it has one 1A port and one 2.1A port but they are clearly marked.
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