rankamateur
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You will find that a 6" half round file is a much more convenient size to handle around your parts if you can find one.
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You and I must be the only two silly enough to debur all the lightening holes. For myself it was a therapeutic procrastination to extend the preparation before I had to get organised enough to actually build something.
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Barely visible once assembled, look just in front of the elevator control horn (rivets without heads).
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Still refining the bauxite.
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Sorry I see where you mean. Mine has a row down each side riveted from inside. Nothing else for it. I will try to find a photo. You should be able to fully build the frame then skin it.
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Yours is different to Mark's because it is an S model and they are similar but different. I had to grind my hand rivet pliers down to reach those too, I suggest that you have been too gentle with the grinder.
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You did well to get the first response. I never have, all correspondence went through the dealer after that.
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After I finished buying a handful at the bearing centre in town every other time I went to town for a while there, then I saw a kit of various sizes that all looked familiar on Ebay for about one quarter what I had been paying.
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"CA 1000 is supplied in 1 part 6 oz. Semco® cartridges." Doesn't sound like the same product supplied which is supplied in 1 litre tins. It's runny consistency would be awkward to handle in cartridges.
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We should be used to being treated like that in this great country. Telstra have been abusing the privilege of being a monopoly supplier in regional Australia for decades, Our monopoly supplier of representation, registration and licencing has treated us no better. The argument was that we had no future if we didn't make these changes, by those sums our future looks like another four years. Wonder what the fees will be by then?
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Are you test flying yet Guy? Hope you are taking some video for us, hint hint.
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But when the weather report was way off, and the wind was 120 degrees out, didn't your instructor turn on the GPS to confirm that the signs on the ground were what you said they were, on your cross country training? Mine did.
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The flight manual for your plane is buried in the very back of you instruction manual behind the spare parts manual.
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The rivnuts that came with my kit are flush head, but the ones that came with the rivnut pliers have a proud boss when finished, they also need a lot larger hole drilled. Make sure you are using the correct rivnuts.
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The head doesn't pull flat! It does press on the sheet all the way around when it is pulled in a hole on a curved surface so the is some deformation as the rivet is pulled.
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I joined a member organisation but in the short few years I have been involved it has sadly changed, the procession of staff stepping out of RAA into jobs in CASA seems to have also been a feature of that period too.
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I have too many hours invested to give it away, I will just have to suck it up, step back into the fold, be a good boy, do what I am told by my monopoly licencing authority and fly aeroplanes. A visit or just a refuel stop over is always doable, just drop me a message.
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I didn't renew my membership last year in protest, my print magazine was the reason I kept up my membership since I wasn't in a position to use my flying privileges, and I was feeling that the new direction was starting to look like the old directions all over again. In just a year of not reading my magazine cover to cover it is shocking how out of touch I feel I have become. I now have to decide wether to step back into the fold, or mount my plane on a pole in the garden.
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Interesting fuel tanks. What holds them down?
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If you look at the can there is a label but the applicable information has been written over with a black permanent marker, so somebody knows who makes it but you and I are not meant to need to know.
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I gave you what I had and you didn't like it, can't do anymore for you than that. I have assisted Aerokits in six kit builds prior to building my own, he has built four others leading upto and during that time. I guess I am happy to believe what he says.
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Reg calls them Avex I think.
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Put the stem solidly in the vice and cut through with and abrasive thin disc?
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Excellent solution, of course you can do that because they are multi pull rivets and the blind seal is not critical. Why didn't somebody suggest that earlier?
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Take it easy, I bought my engine when I bought my kit, spent a lot more time working on everything but my plane build for nearly three years, now I need my engine and I have three years of my fifteen years engine life already used. The way CASA are walking all over RAA, homebuilts will be having fifteen year old engines ripped out by the time it has run time.
