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| Subject: | Re: Motor Mount Paint |
Ted,
Not much flying. I flew to Stan Foster's place two years ago and had
some issues with the airplane. Nothing serious, but aggravating. I had
some brake issues. We first flew to Bishop on the other side of the
Sierras to meet up with three others who were flying down. Then we
stopped at a little town just north of Death Valley for fuel and on
planned departure, I found that I had only a left brake. On inspection,
the brake pad had broken into pieces and fallen out. Hal (McGuyver) was
with us and as usual jury rigged something that would work until we got
to Arizona. Then the radio gave out. Fixing the brake was the easy
thing, the radio was a challenge. I exchanged it for a new one and the
mike sensitivity was so high that all anyone could hear when I hit the
transmit button was the sound of rushing wind. I finally discovered it
wasn't the radio but during a service to the headset to replace
disintegrating wire, the headset folks had also replaced the microphone
with what I would consider a piece of junk - way too sensitive. I paid
the big bucks for a Sennheiser set and they work fine. Started once
again for Stan Foster's place three weeks ago and after the five hour
leg to Big Bear, found that the right brake locked up. I thought it was
the parking brake, but not so sure now. I decided I didn't want to be
at Thunder Ridge with more airplane issues, so turned around and came
home.
The airplane flies fine. I put ten hours on it on the trip three weeks
ago and that is pretty much the total since January of 2014. I think
the headset will solve most of the issues with my not flying. There is
talk of a trip to Oshkosh this Summer. As of now, it is in the plans,
but the brake issues have to be solved.
Lowell
From: Temco
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2015 8:52 PM
Subject: Re: Kitfox-List: Motor Mount Paint
Lowell you are correct about the cap screws as this is a metal to metal
contact. Since you finished you project we haven=99t heard to
much from you. How is the machine performing? I=99ve been
travelling and doing part time contracting so work on my machine is
currently stalled and I just can=99t seem to find the time to get
back building. Probably a good kick in the butt would be appropriate at
this time to get me in gear and finish the model IV. I=99ve had
the engine running and prop adjusted and that all works fine.
Regards =94 Ted
On Apr 13, 2015, at 8:34 PM, Lowell Fitt <lcfitt3@gmail.com> wrote:
Guy,
Do you have the original style mounts for the IV. If so, I would
remove the powder coating at the the cap screws that screw into the
engine. I would think that vibration and the compressive forces might
crush the powder coat and affect torque over time. Then again
retorquing every annual would take care of that possibility.
Lowell
On Apr 13, 2015 7:17 PM, "Temco" <temco@telusplanet.net> wrote:
Hello Guy
Not sure why you would want to remove the powder coat from between
the mount and the engine as this is where the rubber donuts (Vibration
dampening) go. Normally the powder coating is left in place and engine
to frame electrical bonding is done via a very flexible heavy gauge
cable from the engine directly to a good ground point on the frame and
to your electrical ground bus somewhere near your instrument panel..
Hope this helps
Ted Palamarek
Edmonton, Alberta
KF IV/912UL
> On Apr 13, 2015, at 7:15 PM, Andy Fultz <andynfultz@bellsouth.net>
wrote:
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<andynfultz@bellsouth.net>
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> Guy, why would you remove any paint? It's there after all to
protect the metal from rusting.
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> Andy F
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> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Apr 13, 2015, at 3:58 PM, Guy Buchanan <gebuchanan@cox.net>
wrote:
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<gebuchanan@cox.net>
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>> Hi all,
>> Long time. I just got my 912 motor mount back from powder
coating. Did you guys who painted / coated your motor mounts, remove the
coating between the engine and mount? Or did you just torque down over
the paint / coating? I will be removing it between the mount and frame,
that's easy. It's harder between the mount and the engine.
>>
>> Thanks,
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>> Guy Buchanan
>> Ramona, CA
>> Kitfox IV-1200 / 912-S / Warp 3cs / 500 hrs. and grounded
>> Now a glider pilot, too.
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