Apr. 09, 2023
In the freezing temperatures early in the morning at the High Sierra Flyin Neil let me use his 1500 watt space heater hooked up to his generator to pre-heat N7ZK prior to departing the Deadcow Lake Bed. Never having thought about...
May. 10, 2021
After looking at Sun N Fun and Oshkosh I did not find a cascading transfill setup that I thought made economic sense. After searching the web I found Preece Precision on Ebay who sold a single tank setup with bleed...
Sep. 07, 2020
The differential brakes on the RV-10 are rather important for steering at slow speed. The castering nose wheel will not do much for you nor will the rudder as it is not effective at low speed. This is where the...
May. 31, 2020
The biennial IFR check came due for N7ZK. As I don’t like surprises and per Carl’s direction decided it a good idea to fashion a static tester to ensure there were no leaks in my static system before the meter...
Feb. 25, 2020
I have owned and tried many headlamps. The headlamps that use a band around you head give me a headache after a while negating their usefulness for me. I thought about taping one to the top of my headset headband...
Jul. 06, 2019
Carl showed me his super awesome wing jack for working on the main gear. Need to build: a Harbor Freight 3 ton jack with the flat bottom, scrap of aluminum plate, a 2×6, galvanized floor flange (1″ diameter I think),...
Jun. 27, 2018
Bob Kosar (EAA74 member and turbine kit helicopter builder) was kind enough to stop by and take a look at my progress. As I recently discovered that my “coupon” method of countersinking the HS spars is no good I thought...
May. 17, 2018
So I found it rather difucult to locate the male dimple die in the skins for the VS when I was dimpling them in the DRDT-2. I did see where a guy had taken apart a laser, done some soldering...
Apr. 01, 2018
After much contemplation I decided to place the hobby air inside my office, drill a hole through the office wall into the garage, and then drill a hole through the exterior concrete block to place the “thru wall fitting” in...
Mar. 19, 2018
Well as it turns out even if you can’t smell any fumes death can still be in the air. Non human detectable heavy metals and other nasty compounds can accumulate through your body via your breath AND also through your...
Mar. 10, 2018
My standard operating procedure is to tighten a threaded fastener until it snaps and back off a quarter turn. While this works on the washing machine and the lawn mower, the RV-10 is not a place where this method is...
Mar. 07, 2018
Was looking through a few kitlog builders sites and ran across this wonderful heat shrink label printer Peter McBain had (Peter’s BMP21-Plus). After taking the Sportair workshop I was aware these labelers existed but could not find one with a decent...
