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  1. rankamateur
    I know our instructor has both fillers close together for easier refueling without moving the ladder, But I am still concerned about concentrating the disturbance of both fillers so close together. For what it is worth my kit was the first lot where the sheets were already cut for the dual tanks and the fillers are a full tank width apart.
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    The spring is not part of the fuel outlet as far as I can remember. Take care to get the outlet in the tank on the side nearest the wing root. The wing is upside down while you are working it out and I know a bloke who ended up with the outlet in the high side of one of his tanks, ended up with a threaded plug in it and another outlet in the other side.
  3. rankamateur
    These have www.aerokits.net three point door lock kits added over the standard ICP kit issue handles.
  4. rankamateur
    When you are sheeting those wings there are benefits in not being single. Find a friend to help you especially with the leading edge sheets, or the fish scale dents can get really ugly.
  5. rankamateur
    Yet your guts out and polish them up, you will be able to fly it home when the job finishes.
  6. rankamateur
    Which country are you going to build yours in Hank?
  7. rankamateur
    Loungeroom is good, just makes it a bit hard to see the telly! The thinners to take the writing off the sheets is a bit of a treat in the confined space though. Important though or the black printing bleeds through the primer into your top coat.
  8. rankamateur
    Sue, You don't look a day over 60.
  9. rankamateur
    A walk around Natfly, before they killed it, painted a very different picture! I would put my money on 60-70 being followed by 50-60.
  10. rankamateur
    Glad you asked this year!
  11. rankamateur
    The 90 degree edge on the seat back rivets over the top of the baggage floor from memory. I am doing my BAS, not down at the house where my plane is so I can't readily check.
  12. rankamateur
    It is a lot easier to assemble the baggage compartment as you build the rear fuselage. You don't want to be waiting for a part to put in later.
  13. rankamateur
    Are you sure that part isn't the back of the seats?
  14. rankamateur
    Fit the two together and see how they line up. Mine has round shoulders because it is an S so looking in my manual won't help. the cutouts in the floor are for the cabinets that house the flap control rods so fit them in the there an se if the mounting holes line up on the back wall.
  15. rankamateur
    I am on the exact same page as you on all of this, but by the time your post count get up a couple of thousand, you like me will realise that the threads will get started if you are patient, and some other poor bastard can get kicked in the head for the post title he chooses out of frustration or what ever. Most of us never realise until after we have chosen a thread title that we or somebody else isn't pleased with, that there is no 20 minute edit period on them. So cool your heels and the threads will still come.
  16. rankamateur
    From the back of the seats forward it becomes wider but the rear fuselage uses all the same parts.
  17. rankamateur
    Maybe someone closer to you who has built an XL would have one anyway. Maybe Ron Hoey?
  18. rankamateur
    If you don't find the back wall give Reg a ring because there is one lying against the wall in his workshop for each kit we built with extended baggage, he should be able to send you one.
  19. rankamateur
    The flat sheet of aluminium behind you goes up to shoulder height, then all kits have a baggage compartment back as far as the next fuselage frame. It has a sheet of aluminium in the back of the compartment and a floor. The baggage extension discards that back wall, adds flooring back to the second frame and supplies a different back wall sheet and additional framing to mount it. (Extended baggage came along early in the VGXL release so I am not sure that the factory ever did it for the original VG). Edit. both fuselages are the same rearward of the front frame in the rear fuselage so it would fit.
  20. rankamateur
    https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/regional/south-west/a/29712321/man-43-dies-after-glider-crash-in-wa/ this one not so lucky. Gravity is a real bitch sometimes.
  21. rankamateur
    Just out of interest Kaz, at what age does a pilot mature?
  22. rankamateur
    Like a Turbo charger!
  23. rankamateur
    There is a 3 blade DUC prop hanging on the wall over in the Aerokits workshop. It has been there nearly as long as I have been going over there, give Reg a ring and have a talk to him about why it is still hanging there.
  24. rankamateur
    I hung around with Tom at airshows and fly-ins for three or four years on his stands and I was only EXPOSED to it once, at Monto.
  25. rankamateur
    Go on Geoff, tell us what is really on your mind!
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