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Some miscellaneous ramblings on the airbox.

As stated, your engine airbox depends on the year group.

My 1998 timeframe engine also has no brace. The only time a brace is nice on t ...

Tony,
If our stab mechanism is hitting the mechanical mass balance limits at the mass balance arm and you are sure the pitch tube MW bearings are clear on the pitch torque tube (CS10) in the wing c ...

Chris,
I have small 3D printers and use a CAD program and draw up and produce my items for the shop, woodworking, home, and auto as the problem with engineers is we think we can do it better.
Hence, ...

Chris:
Re: CKT no longer in business!!! That is a shame. Shows you how much we 914 owners don’t follow up on the latest suppliers. We are all getting older and competition from “Cheap Chinese is ...

I found simply lapping the exhaust into the head cured the issues with the exhaust leaks at the cylinder head. Attention to detail is essential as I covered in my troubleshooting document.

The exh ...

Nice touches Tony,
Your craftsmanship shows.

Bud Yerly

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Hi Ron,
It is always prudent to design in storage for a small cockpit.
With a mono, a map case is very difficult but there are ways around it.

A pocket can be made by simply laying up three ...

Tony,
You have earned your PHD in Aircraft Construction.

Well Done,

Bud Yerly

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Tire Changes aren't complex and wonderful on the Trigear Europa.

Attached is my paper on it from my website (yea I gotta work some more on that too).

On cross country if you land at an a ...

A quickie sketch at lunch time.

Just a small ramp fabbed and then tapered to clear the flap may draw a bit of air out of these rather ugly gaps in the aircraft side. However ugly these slots may a ...

I'll take some time tonight.
Bud

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I was staring at work that needs to be done and my N12AY was setting in the corner of the shop and I noticed something I missed on ventilation exhaust.

The two curvy slots for the flap exit could e ...

I would caution using the term reverse NACA duct.

The NACA duct with its isentropic sharp edged curvy entrance is an inlet design not an exit. The vortex coming off the curvy sharp edged sides ...

Chris,
I've painted flat and vertical. I like flat and letting it dry but it takes too long.

My painter and I simply clamped the spar firmly to a low six inch wide sawhorse so it would stay ...

The wing theory hasn't changed much since the 1920s but the math is now easier just letting the "zeros and ones" computer to do the calculations.

We've known the elliptic wing distributio ...

Chris,

PPG Omni is very popular here with the RV crowd in Central Florida. It doesn't hold up well to abuse in my opinion. It is not really hard paint but goes on easy and dries even. It is also ...

Paul
Red is a tough color to match.. Work with a local paint store that handles Axalta (used to be Dupont) and see about a match after a complete cleaning, and light buffing or rub out of the paint ...

Chris,
I've used Imron and Imron industrial on my planes for 20 years and I love and hate the paint.
As 51 commented, I too made the mistake of painting urethane without proper ventilation/protectio ...

Eric you are spot on.
In 2010 I put the TLR46 TCU on my old Rotax 914 and I didn't see the airbox temp on my thermocouple go above 140 C so that told me I didn't need any intercooler as we did on the ...

Providing you have done Mod 66>

I had LST struts in Canada make me replacements for my customers in case Europa couldn’t supply replacements.
The struts are 110-300mm with 25 newton pressu ...