---------------------------------------------------------- Kolb-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Wed 01/14/04: 8 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 03:47 AM - Blown 912 (Kirk Smith) 2. 06:06 AM - Re: VERY IMPORTANT INFO (Sandy Hegyi) 3. 08:04 AM - Re: Kolb-List Digest: 22 Msgs - 01/11/04 (Doug Lawton) 4. 03:35 PM - Re: VERY IMPORTANT INFO (daryl) 5. 05:37 PM - New Web Site (Mike Pierzina) 6. 05:52 PM - Mark's Kolbra (Paul Petty) 7. 07:11 PM - Re: New Web Site (Richard Pike) 8. 07:32 PM - Re: solo and capacitor question (GeoR38@aol.com) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 03:47:37 AM PST US From: "Kirk Smith" Subject: Kolb-List: Blown 912 --> Kolb-List message posted by: "Kirk Smith" Here's the website with the blown 912 for sale. http://www.barnstormers.com/cat.php Do not archive ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 06:06:40 AM PST US From: "Sandy Hegyi" Subject: Re: Kolb-List: VERY IMPORTANT INFO --> Kolb-List message posted by: "Sandy Hegyi" Ultralights do not have to be certified in Canada. You can build anything you want and call it a basic ultralight. The liciensing requirements are 10 hrs of instruction. Of which 5 hrs are dual, 3 hrs. solo, 1 cross country and grouncd school. And a self declared medical. Then you can fly canything up to 1232 lbs. and stalls below 45 mph. with any amount of fuel and no restrictions on top speed. ----- Original Message ----- From: Subject: Re: Kolb-List: VERY IMPORTANT INFO > --> Kolb-List message posted by: Mhqqqqq@aol.com > > In Canada UL's need to be certified and also you need a license to fly them. > It is not much different from having a normal airplane. > I like it here better. > > Mark > twinstar > s.e. Minnesota > > > do not archive > > ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 08:04:02 AM PST US From: "Doug Lawton" Subject: Kolb-List: Re: Kolb-List Digest: 22 Msgs - 01/11/04 --> Kolb-List message posted by: "Doug Lawton" John, I agree. I was on a long xc in a Mooney many years ago (early 70's) and had a fuel leak in the cockpit. Scared the bejeezus out of me. Can't remember now just why it happened, some line to a guage or something. But I do remember fuel in the floorboard on the passenger side, being at altitude when it happened, and landing in Daytona because of it. Cockpits are not a good place for fuel. Fly Safely, Doug john h wrote: ...For that matter, I don't like primers that route fuel into the cockpit either. ________________________________ Message 4 _____________________________________ Time: 03:35:15 PM PST US From: "daryl" Subject: Re: Kolb-List: VERY IMPORTANT INFO --> Kolb-List message posted by: "daryl" Sandy, you are essentially correct, however ultralights do have to be registered in Canada. That means recording basic information, such as weight, #seats, engine type and horsepower, and wing area. Transport Canada does have the option of rejecting your application if it decides that your airplane doesn't meet minimum specifications, such as wing loading, or power/weight ratio. Inspection by TC is not required. (however you are responsible for the airworthiness of the airplane). regards, Daryl. -------Original Message------- From: kolb-list@matronics.com Subject: Re: Kolb-List: VERY IMPORTANT INFO --> Kolb-List message posted by: "Sandy Hegyi" Ultralights do not have to be certified in Canada. You can build anything you want and call it a basic ultralight. The liciensing requirements are 10 hrs of instruction. Of which 5 hrs are dual, 3 hrs. solo, 1 cross country and grouncd school. And a self declared medical. Then you can fly canything up to 1232 lbs. and stalls below 45 mph. with any amount of fuel and no restrictions on top speed. ----- Original Message ----- From: Subject: Re: Kolb-List: VERY IMPORTANT INFO > --> Kolb-List message posted by: Mhqqqqq@aol.com > > In Canada UL's need to be certified and also you need a license to fly them. > It is not much different from having a normal airplane. > I like it here better. > > Mark > twinstar > s.e. Minnesota > > > do not archive > > ________________________________ Message 5 _____________________________________ Time: 05:37:43 PM PST US From: "Mike Pierzina" Subject: Kolb-List: New Web Site --> Kolb-List message posted by: "Mike Pierzina" Hey Guys, I've finally built a web site...200 pictures. http://www.geocities.com/planecrazzzy/Planecrazzzy.html Gotta Fly... Mike in MN --- Sometimes you just have to take the leap and build your wings on the way down... Gotta Fly... ________________________________ Message 6 _____________________________________ Time: 05:52:38 PM PST US From: "Paul Petty" Subject: Kolb-List: Mark's Kolbra RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK 2.60, RCVD_IN_SORBS 0.10) --> Kolb-List message posted by: "Paul Petty" Good evening fellow Kolbers, This week has been a blast, Kolb wise, first, Monday, the postman delivered the CD that Mark German was so kind to take the time to comprise. Also, John Hauck flew in and brought me the Warp prop I purchased from Daryl. As he handed it to me he almost didn't want to let go as it has so much history. That prop has been to Barron Alaska and God knows where else.He also took the time to look over my work and give me some super ideas to make my bird a stronger airplane. And of course ate my butt out for the things I had screwed up and I gladly accepted.... with a :-) then a .I. when I got home... just kidding...Major.... Any way the main reason for this thread is to brag on Mark's Kolbra. Gezzzzz what a work of art. This man build the entire airplane before squirting the first drop of paint!!!! Disassembled the whole thing and rebuilt... dang...folks that's a lot of work. But the results speak for themselves. His work is digital. One big thing he did was to TIG weld in 4130 tabs to the airframe and use Rivnuts so the panels could be removed for inspection. Another was the nose cone. He can remove his and work on the panel or brakes in seconds!!! He also has no rivets in the airframe . All aircraft quality screws. I phoned him this evening and talked about his first flight in her and I can tell from the sound in his voice that he had to be transported to the local hospital to have the smile removed from his face... That was a quote..... One thing that we talked about was the way in which a Kolb, or at least the bigger ones, need to have a way to trim for different loads. In the case of the Kolbra, TNK supplies a cheesey knob that came off something.. not sure what, that has to be drilled out and fitted to the tension mechanism. Mark has a real nice trim wheel that is not hooked up yet but wishes he had installed a electric servo trim on the right elevator with power supplied via 20 gage wire through 5/32" tubing through the tail boom. Sounds like a good idea to me and may go for it. One thing I noticed at the TNK fly in and flying the demo with Bryan was that the trim wheel is so hard to get to and adjust that they don't bother to trim for different passengers. One would have to release the seat belt to do so. This brings to mind another issue. Mark and I agree that TNK want to keep these airplanes simple, easy and affordable to build. Figure that's what Homer had in mind from the get go. However, for those of us that wish to build a more complex and not a faster or better aircraft, but a way more flyer friendly top end model, these options could be offered by the factory as a profit for the company rather than an us out here doing mods. Another thing is sharing. Photos that is. I have learned more from looking at the other builders of Kolb's than the plans could ever offer. Have hear the phrase "Don't try and reinvent the wheel". And I am not trying to do that. However, I feel that these special little aircraft that we love so much are like the custom Harley Davidson motorcycles that I have built so many of and it's the personal touches that makes one proud after leaving mother earth in something you have built in your basement/shop or back porch of a mobile home... Lar.... just picking... but still trying to figure out how you did that! Well folks for those that didn't hit the delete key and made it this far in to my excitement, hope everyone is doing fine and all is well. Sure has been a great year thus far. Headed to the shop to map out secret Hauck wing mod's and take measurements. If any want a copy of Mark's CD request to lynnp@c-gate.net will be happy to send Paul Petty Building Ms. Dixie Kolbra/912UL/Warp do not archive ________________________________ Message 7 _____________________________________ Time: 07:11:17 PM PST US From: Richard Pike Subject: Re: Kolb-List: New Web Site --> Kolb-List message posted by: Richard Pike Good show! I like it. Richard Pike MKIII N420P (420ldPoops) do not archive At 08:36 PM 1/14/04 -0500, you wrote: >--> Kolb-List message posted by: "Mike Pierzina" > >Hey Guys, > I've finally built a web site...200 pictures. > >http://www.geocities.com/planecrazzzy/Planecrazzzy.html > > Gotta Fly... > Mike in MN > >--- >Sometimes you just have to take the leap >and build your wings on the way down... > Gotta Fly... > > ________________________________ Message 8 _____________________________________ Time: 07:32:42 PM PST US From: GeoR38@aol.com Subject: Re: Kolb-List: solo and capacitor question --> Kolb-List message posted by: GeoR38@aol.com In a message dated 1/13/04 7:31:10 PM Eastern Standard Time, jtripp@elmore.rr.com writes: > > George, > Thanks for the electrical lesson. You can learn a lot from this list. I > figure after about 20 years of this stuff, I'll have the equivalent > education of a degree in EE and AE. > > If you really missed your FS, you would be heading north to rescue it from > the cold winter. What's the hold up? > > James Tripp > FS II, Most of the painting done. > > DO NOT ARCHIVE > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > To: > Subject: Re: Kolb-List: solo and capacitor question > > > >--> Kolb-List message posted by: GeoR38@aol.com > > > >In a message dated 1/10/04 9:56:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, > >jtripp@elmore.rr.com writes: > > > >>Mike, > >>I've got the capacitor that came with my EIS right here in my hand. It > is > >>blue and about 1" long with a wire out the top and one out the bottom. > It > >>comes from BC and the label on it says 2200 yf .16V. Actually, it's not > >>really a y but a backward y like you're looking at it in a mirror. Hope > that > >>helps. > >> > >>James Tripp > >>FS II > >>that is the greek letter mu meaning micro or in this case times 10 to > the > >minus 6 or millionths. so the capacitor value is 2thousand 2 hundred micro > >farads. Another way to look at it is.... .0022 farads. 1,000,000 micro > farads > >equals one farad. One farad is a helluva big capacitor (for the rednecks > in the > >group). But your capacitor is only 2 thousandths that size.....kinda like > the > >mach business. A jet goes mach one which is the speed of sound at 760 > mph. > >Kolbers go 50/760 or .066 mach. > >All this plus a little money will purchase a cup of java. > > > >just trying to be helpful and put into proper perspective. > > > >George Randolph...the Villages > >obviously I miss my Firestar which is stuck in Ohio, now > My Bride is the hold up....love her dearly, but this move was her idea and I caved in to her .....only because I love her...no other reason. ie, I'm doin her stuff instead of mine ....I would love to have someone to fly it down to florida with, as I have virtually no experience in X country. Oh well, I can dream..... George RAndolph Firestar driver...er....kinda