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With promised good weather, a drop of the hat fly in to Fishburn is going ahead this Sunday.
Fishburn have agreed to waive landing fees for Europas 🙂

For those that use it, there is a poll run ...

Ah thank you both - yes, I think I’ll try just the outrigger fairing next - it does look better and seems to bring at least some benefit. Now, just need to get it to fit over the outrigger pivot mod ...

Really interesting work, thanks so much for publishing. I’m wrestling with the speed kit being most efficient if you don’t fit it! It doesn’t seem logical - the outrigger assembly is not at all ...

A round Britain trip for me to pick up prop spares, attend meetings in London, pick up and fly with a sword (a first for me!) then lay a wreath at a service to commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the ...

Replying to my own post in case it helps someone else.
The bearing is 61800-2Z-SKF and is pretty common so all the usual suspects stock it. I’ll update when I replace mine and post some images.

My Arplast PV50 lead screw bearing has gone a bit crunchy so needs replacement. I’m looking for tips and advice please from anyone who has done this before I start to disassemble. At the same time I ...

Thanks for these measurements - the builder manual gives a choice of bearings but one of them leads to a metric sized bearing which is definitely wrong. The sizes above are spot on, thank you

Thought it would be helpful to add some images of the hub disassembly and bearing, bush, o ring replacement. The orange nylon block has a barely perceptible notch on the corner which the manual talks ...

I’m going deep through paperwork on my relatively new purchase, just checking off each individual mod and getting to understand my machine 🙂