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1. 12:05 AM - Aussie floods (GRAHAM SINGLETON)
2. 01:38 AM - ELTs, tailwheel bearings, carb problems (Richard Lamprey)
3. 03:02 AM - Re: Bounced messages (Ron Jones)
4. 03:42 AM - Re: Bounced messages (Ron Jones)
5. 04:53 PM - Door shootbolt rod material (Tony Renshaw)
6. 06:12 PM - Re: Aussie floods (craigb)
7. 06:48 PM - Re: ELTs, tailwheel bearings, carb problems (keith hickling)
8. 06:53 PM - Re: Door shootbolt rod material (Robert Borger)
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Kingsley & Lance,=0AI hope you didn't get washed away by the floods. Are yo
u OK. Any news?=0AGraham=0A
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Subject: | ELTs, tailwheel bearings, carb problems |
Greetings from Kenya. I've saved up a few questions for the network,
perhaps someone out there can help.
1. New regulations here dictate that we must now all fly with 406 ELT,
and especially recommended is the Artex 406 (PLBs will not do here).
This requires that for composite aircraft, the skin of the aircraft must
have radial metallic strips, 1 inch wide, in the shape of a 6-point
star, extending out for 24 inches in all directions. Seems a bit
excessive for a Europa, where can we find that space? Behind bagage bay
is obvious best bet. Will alumnium strips work (I have sticky aluminium
tape, 2" wide). Has anyone fitted this arrangement? Does anyome have a
mod approval, STC or something for the Artex 406 installation in a
Europa, that I can wave at aviation officialdom here?
2. My tailwheel goes through bearings at the rate of knots, must be our
dusty runways. But it is costly to fit new tailwheels, when the tyre
itself is fine. Has anyone tried to fit the bearings available from
Aircraft Spruce into the Europa tailwheel?
3. Two weeks ago I got into the Europa (Classic, 912UL), started up,
and had very rough running. Under the hood, found that the left carb
was leaking back through the connection to the plenum chamber, theres a
small hole for water clearance, and fuel was pouring onto the ground.
Further investigation revealed that all this seems to be because of an
overflowing float chamber. The float 'needle' (with viton tip) looks
absolutely clean, no grooves on its face, but no adjustment of the float
bracket will stop the flow. The floats are fine. Has anyone had this
problem after just 500 hours of flying? The fuel goes through an Andair
gascolator upstream, so I am not sure what contamination caused this.
Thanks, and all best to all for the New Year!
Richard
Europa 168, Kenya.
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Subject: | Re: Bounced messages |
Thanks, Ira, for your message.
I'll try this in future.
Regards,
Ron.
Read this topic online here:
http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=326459#326459
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Subject: | Re: Bounced messages |
Hi Matt et all,
An e-mail sent earlier to the forum has bounced with this comment.
(The yellow highlighting is not mine!)
I only recently re-subscribed to the list having been moving house but in all the
years previously, I had no problems posting or receiving!
Regards,
Ron.
The following message to was undeliverable.
The reason for the problem:
5.1.0 - Unknown address error 554-'Service unavailable; Client host [out1.ip06ir2.opaltelecom.net] blocked using Barracuda Reputation; http://bbl.barracudacentral.com/q.cgi?ip=92.26.183.172'
Read this topic online here:
http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=326460#326460
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Subject: | Door shootbolt rod material |
Hi,
In the process of attempting to nominally increase the length of the aft shootbolt
throw, I cut the rod and sleeved it, but it now catches within the sill as
it actuates. I think I might just replace the pushrod with new material, hopefully
sourced locally. I know it doesn't have to be very strong, so maybe hardware
grade aluminium might be OK for the 10 mm rod replacement? I could also possibly
source the flattish rectangular product Europa uses on the door sill shoulder
width mod, but I don't know its dimensions or what it is made of.
I am open to an requesting any ideas/suggestions on how I should overcome this
without international postage on a 1 m long item, a fortune.
Thanks.
Reg
Tony Renshaw
P.S. The 10 mm diameter is an issue of itself, as I don't seem to be able to get
that size locally, but I do have a mate with a lathe, so if I bought 1/2" we
could turn it down.
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Not sure about them, but Brisbane is going to flood tonight and
tomorrow, the dams are all at about 180% capacity
So they have to do a big dump of water today ( the extra 90% was for
flood mitigation built in after the 1974 floods)
From: owner-europa-list-server@matronics.com
[mailto:owner-europa-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of GRAHAM
SINGLETON
Sent: Tuesday, 11 January 2011 6:02 PM
Subject: Europa-List: Aussie floods
Kingsley & Lance,
I hope you didn't get washed away by the floods. Are you OK. Any news?
Graham
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Subject: | ELTs, tailwheel bearings, carb problems |
Hi Richard,
I have an Artex ME406 fitted behing the baggage bay, with the antenna
inside the fuselage. I have copper strips curving up the side of the
fuselage and longditudinally in a square for a groundplane. We have had
a number of problems with this ELT in New Zealand:
1) The self-test routine seems to have been made over-sensitive to
various problems, and many people have had a "failed" self test saying
there is a problem with the antenna or groundplane. Artex finally
admitted there was a problem and suggested using a longer length of coax
to increase the impedance. Our local avionics man after extensive
testing of my unit thinks there might also be a problem with radiation
from the antenna supressing the unit from transmission if the antenna is
mounted close to the ELT. Apparently the units supplied for helicopters
have metal screening of the unit to prevent this. On metal aircraft with
the antenna outside the fuselage this is not a problem. It took us many
months to get my unit to pass the self-test.
2) There is a problem with the g switches becoming corroded, and several
have failed to activate in a crash. We currently have an AD requiring
regular checks of the gswitch. Artex are working on this problem.
3) Several helicopters with this unit fitted have had the antenna break
off in a crash so the unit has been inoperative. This shouldn't be a
problem with the antenna mounted inside the fuselage.
In summary, this unit has not been trouble-free in New Zealand, though
Artex are working on the problems. Might be worth asking them about
progress if you are going to use this unit.
Regards,
Keith.
Keith Hickling,
New Zealand.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-europa-list-server@matronics.com
[mailto:owner-europa-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of Richard
Lamprey
Sent: Tuesday, 11 January 2011 10:35 p.m.
Subject: Europa-List: ELTs, tailwheel bearings, carb problems
Greetings from Kenya. I've saved up a few questions for the network,
perhaps someone out there can help.
1. New regulations here dictate that we must now all fly with 406 ELT,
and especially recommended is the Artex 406 (PLBs will not do here).
This requires that for composite aircraft, the skin of the aircraft must
have radial metallic strips, 1 inch wide, in the shape of a 6-point
star, extending out for 24 inches in all directions. Seems a bit
excessive for a Europa, where can we find that space? Behind bagage bay
is obvious best bet. Will alumnium strips work (I have sticky aluminium
tape, 2" wide). Has anyone fitted this arrangement? Does anyome have a
mod approval, STC or something for the Artex 406 installation in a
Europa, that I can wave at aviation officialdom here?
2. My tailwheel goes through bearings at the rate of knots, must be our
dusty runways. But it is costly to fit new tailwheels, when the tyre
itself is fine. Has anyone tried to fit the bearings available from
Aircraft Spruce into the Europa tailwheel?
3. Two weeks ago I got into the Europa (Classic, 912UL), started up,
and had very rough running. Under the hood, found that the left carb
was leaking back through the connection to the plenum chamber, theres a
small hole for water clearance, and fuel was pouring onto the ground.
Further investigation revealed that all this seems to be because of an
overflowing float chamber. The float 'needle' (with viton tip) looks
absolutely clean, no grooves on its face, but no adjustment of the float
bracket will stop the flow. The floats are fine. Has anyone had this
problem after just 500 hours of flying? The fuel goes through an Andair
gascolator upstream, so I am not sure what contamination caused this.
Thanks, and all best to all for the New Year!
Richard
Europa 168, Kenya.
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Subject: | Re: Door shootbolt rod material |
Tony,
I have an original 1m X 10mm length of boltshoot aluminum rod. It seems like 2024
or 6061 would be the most likely candidates. Probably worth all of $2. I'd
be happy to forward the rod to you for the cost of shipping, but that probably
exceeds the value by 3 or 4 times. It's up to you.
Check six,
Bob Borger
http://www.europaowners.org/N914XL
Europa XS, Short Wing, Intercooled Rotax 914
rlborger@mac.com
Cel: 817-992-1117
On Jan 11, 2011, at 6:50 PM, Tony Renshaw wrote:
>
> Hi,
> In the process of attempting to nominally increase the length of the aft shootbolt
throw, I cut the rod and sleeved it, but it now catches within the sill
as it actuates. I think I might just replace the pushrod with new material, hopefully
sourced locally. I know it doesn't have to be very strong, so maybe hardware
grade aluminium might be OK for the 10 mm rod replacement? I could also
possibly source the flattish rectangular product Europa uses on the door sill
shoulder width mod, but I don't know its dimensions or what it is made of.
> I am open to an requesting any ideas/suggestions on how I should overcome this
without international postage on a 1 m long item, a fortune.
>
> Thanks.
> Reg
> Tony Renshaw
> P.S. The 10 mm diameter is an issue of itself, as I don't seem to be able to
get that size locally, but I do have a mate with a lathe, so if I bought 1/2"
we could turn it down.
>
>
>
>
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