rodsmith
Senior Member
Last Activity: Today, 07:39 AM
Joined: 09-26-2013
Location: Crawford, CO
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As mentioned earlier, do not use an ABC type extinguisher. You will be blinded and choking on the toxic powder. For aircraft use you need a Halon extinguisher.... -
Countersink angle of 120 deg looks like a problem. -
I ran into another problem while relocating the cowl flaps. The inlet and outlet on the heat muffs on my Vetterman mufflers both point in the same direction....Leave a comment:
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Wow, beautiful! Is that an IO-520, how much taller is the gear than plans? -
For the 2 or 4AWG wire, welding cable is perfectly acceptable, cheaper and very flexible. -
Make yourself a water level. You will want a drilling jig, maybe someone on the forum will loan you one, or you can build one. I started with 3/16"...Last edited by rodsmith; 06-26-2022, 09:13 AM.Leave a comment:
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That's interesting. I just checked all the dimples in my old cowl with a magnifying glass and there are no cracks, except where I had shrunk the metal.... -
Are you using the expensive Garmiin CAN24 wire? They used to recommend 22ga 2 conductor shielded for the canbus. I would recommend going with 22 ga unless...Leave a comment:
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There should be no problem dimpling for countersunk screws on the cowling, unless you did like I did and shrunk the metal first. The picture shows the...Leave a comment:
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It takes more work with the Lancaster shrinker/stretcher, but you can shrink 2024T3. -
I'm sure it was the combination of shrinking and dimpling. Could you provide some pictures of your cowl flap installation? I think I will have to move... -
Rebuilding Lower Cowl - Cowl flaps
I did something rather stupid that has caused me to rebuild my lower cowling. In the lower corners I had used a metal shrinker to form the metal to hug... -
I mounted the heater boxes low enough in the corners, that they feed 2" scat tube under the flooring one terminating centrally in the front floor...Leave a comment:
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Air Supply to Cabin Heat
I have a Vetterman exhaust with heat muffs on both mufflers plumbed to a cabin heat box on each side of the firewall. I hate to rob cooling air to feed... -
I believe the only difference is the gold cube is less restrictive to flow. That is why I am using one with mechanical fuel injection. -
I think the Companion is sort of the "sleeper" Bearhawk design, I'm hopefully 6-9 months from flying my 4-place but if starting a build today...Leave a comment:
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I bought mine from Desser. Tried to buy them last September, were back ordered until late December.Leave a comment:
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Very nice, great workmanship! -
Could have used some of those if I had been aware of them. -
Sale price or asking price?
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