---------------------------------------------------------- Glasair-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Sun 01/31/10: 1 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 06:32 PM - Re: Glasair-List Digest: 2 Msgs - 01/30/10 (John Markey) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 06:32:45 PM PST US From: John Markey Subject: Glasair-List: Re: Glasair-List Digest: 2 Msgs - 01/30/10 Mike, Great posts. Please keep us informed. Best regards, John Markey Glasair II FT Deep peace of the Light of the World to you. -------- ------------------------- ---------------- --A Gaelic Blessing --- On Sun, 1/31/10, Glasair-List Digest Server wrote: From: Glasair-List Digest Server Subject: Glasair-List Digest: 2 Msgs - 01/30/10 * ======================== ---Online Versions of Today's List Digest Archive ======================== Today's complete Glasair-List Digest can also be found in either of the two Web Links listed below.- The .html file includes the Digest formatted in HTML for viewing with a web browser and features Hyperlinked Indexes and Message Navigation.- The .txt file includes the plain ASCII version of the Glasair-List Digest and can be viewed with a generic text editor such as Notepad or with a web browser. 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I was installing a new battery in our Glasair last week. Years ago another homebuilder gave me a good piece of advice. He said, "You can't tell if something is loose by looking at it. You have to touch it." So before putting the new battery in the firewall mounted tray, I grabbed the tray and tried to move it. To my amazement, it moved. Quite a lot. Long story short, all 8 bolts (4 per side) where two full turns loose! This is the improved firewall that had factory supplied hard wood mounts in the firewall. (We did ours per a Service Bulletin that came out when the new GII came out.) I suppose the wood must have shrunk, probably due to firewall heat? Time in service: 3000 hours. We do not do aerobatics. Hope this helps, Mike Palmer <>< ________________________________- Message 2- __________________________ ___________ Time: 09:33:54 PM PST US Subject: Glasair-List: Canopy strut recharge fixture From: mppalmer@aol.com I finally got around to making my own canopy gas strut recharge fixture. It cost me about $40 in parts. (Now I'm wondering how much S/H gets for these?) ACE hardware had most of the parts - a gas line pipe (long enough to do two struts at once is best); reducers, a Schrader valve, sleeve. I bought a 2000 psi rated ball valve for about $15 from Grainger Industrial. (We have a local outlet nearby.) Start the nitrogen flowing with the ball valve cracked open to purge air out of the tube. Then close the valve and charge up to 750 psi. Wait a minute, turn off the nitrogen and slowly crack the ball valve.- That's it. You'll have to do it again in a few years, but we've got 15 years on our plane. Had to do this about 3 or 4 times now on one strut (only once or twice on the other.) Our local FBO didn't charge me for the 5 minutes and the little nitrogen it took. I'll plan to post photos on my website soon. 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