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1. 02:24 AM - List of Contributors Coming Soon! (Matt Dralle)
2. 11:45 AM - Re: EIS (coolmate_04@cashette.com)
3. 11:45 AM - Re: Tube smashing (coolmate_04@cashette.com)
4. 11:45 AM - Re: a little tail (coolmate_04@cashette.com)
5. 12:52 PM - [PLEASE READ] Lists Pummelled by Cashette.com Debacle... (Matt Dralle)
6. 04:42 PM - Tail Wheel Shimmy (dama)
7. 05:58 PM - tube smashing (Paul Petty)
8. 08:08 PM - Re: Tail Wheel Shimmy (Richard Swiderwski)
9. 08:44 PM - Re: Tail Wheel Shimmy (robert bean)
10. 09:26 PM - wheel alignment (GeoR38@aol.com)
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| Subject: | List of Contributors Coming Soon! |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: Matt Dralle <dralle@matronics.com>
Dear Listers,
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--> Kolb-List message posted by: "coolmate_04@cashette.com" <no-reply@cashette.com>
Dear Friend:
Thank you for your email. Your message has not reached my Inbox because you are
not yet on my Approved List. To reach my Inbox, please click on this link. When
I respond to your message, you will be automatically added to my Approved List!
Warm regards,
coolmate_04@cashette.com
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From: "Giovanni Day" gde01@bellsouth.net
Subject: RE: Kolb-List: EIS
Sent date: Sun Nov 28 12:36:21 PST 2004
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| Subject: | Re: Tube smashing |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: "coolmate_04@cashette.com" <no-reply@cashette.com>
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I respond to your message, you will be automatically added to my Approved List!
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-----Original Message:-----
From: "Mike Pierzina" planecrazzzy@lycos.com
Subject: Kolb-List: Tube smashing
Sent date: Sun Nov 28 13:55:05 PST 2004
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| Subject: | Re: a little tail |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: "coolmate_04@cashette.com" <no-reply@cashette.com>
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I respond to your message, you will be automatically added to my Approved List!
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From: "Dave pelletier@cableone.net
Subject: Re: Kolb-List: a little tail
Sent date: Sun Nov 28 13:02:49 PST 2004
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| Subject: | [PLEASE READ] Lists Pummelled by Cashette.com Debacle... |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: Matt Dralle <dralle@matronics.com>
Listers,
Just a quick note to say that I've caught the great Cashette.Com debacle of
2004 and have tried to clean out all of the pending List email queues of
all the "you are not yet on my Approved List" messages. There were about
117 of them queued when I noticed what was going on.
In a nutshell, this guy signed up for all of the Lists and had a "register
with my site" spam filter enabled on his account. When his account started
receiving List messages, it started sending back, "you need to register"
messages back to the various Lists which in turn went to the Lists which in
turn got sent to the same spam filter which in turn sent back a message
indicating that the List needed to register, and so on and so on until, I
suppose, the Internet just blew up! Sheeze, some of these spam systems are
so brain dead!
Anyway, I've cleaned out all of the messages generated by this thing and
put in a permanent block from this cashette.com website so that this
shouldn't be a problem any longer.
Back to Airplane Discussions! :-)
Matt Dralle
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| Subject: | Tail Wheel Shimmy |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: "dama" <dama@mindspring.com>
Gents, I cannot deal with this tailwheel anymore. It's a stock plastic Kolb
tailwheel on a Firestar II that served me well for 4 years. A few months
ago, I felt a vibration on takeoff and realized on landing that it was a
tailwheel shimmy. It begins as I slow to about 15-20 mph on rollout. It
leaves a nice rubber squiggle mark on the runway and eats the tailwheel away
quickly. At first, I thought that the geometry of the wheel had changed from
wear and ordered a new one as the old one had worn maybe 1/4 inch after 500+
landings, most on hard surface. The new one does the same thing. I have
tried different spring tensions and tightened and loosened the bolt that the
assembly swivels on. Does anyone have an idea as to what may have changed?
Thanks,
Kip
http://www.springeraviation.net/
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--> Kolb-List message posted by: "Paul Petty" <Lynnp@c-gate.net>
Mike/all,
All of the al tubing bent and flattened to spec. May be due to the way I made the
tail surfaces. Rather than stacking the tubing regarding the trailing edges
that's leading you that way. I chose the radius method over the Homers bumps
method. Makes for cleaner surfaces.
And for you guys like Dave interested in the 1/2 scale P47 that Charley built over
20 years ago inquire off list.....
I sent the fuel tank back to Mark for some mods to make it fit today.
Ms. Dixie is taking shape and looking more like an airplane everyday!
Who else is building out there?
Please allow me to share a new product. It's the new sport pilot video magazine DVD! I received my first copy today! There were 2 Kolb's in this issue! If anyone wants to subscribe go to www.sportplanevm.com Great stuff!
Paul Petty
Building Ms. Dixie
Kolbra/912UL/Warp
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| Subject: | Tail Wheel Shimmy |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: "Richard Swiderwski" <rswiderski@earthlink.net>
Kip,
Just a thought, maybe its not geometry but something loose or
wobbling & causing resonance? Like the axle worn & allowing wheel to
wobble, or maybe a cracked fiberglass rod that is setting up a shimmy?
Hopefully you haven't been paid a midnight visit by Possum at full moon
where he dances & hops around hooting and clanging that mystery kettle of
his as he circles your plane 3 times. If that has happened, legend has it
that you might as well accept the fact that it can never be fixed. Good
luck.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-kolb-list-server@matronics.com
[mailto:owner-kolb-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of dama
Subject: Kolb-List: Tail Wheel Shimmy
--> Kolb-List message posted by: "dama" <dama@mindspring.com>
Gents, I cannot deal with this tailwheel anymore. It's a stock plastic Kolb
tailwheel on a Firestar II that served me well for 4 years. A few months
ago, I felt a vibration on takeoff and realized on landing that it was a
tailwheel shimmy. It begins as I slow to about 15-20 mph on rollout. It
leaves a nice rubber squiggle mark on the runway and eats the tailwheel away
quickly. At first, I thought that the geometry of the wheel had changed from
wear and ordered a new one as the old one had worn maybe 1/4 inch after 500+
landings, most on hard surface. The new one does the same thing. I have
tried different spring tensions and tightened and loosened the bolt that the
assembly swivels on. Does anyone have an idea as to what may have changed?
Thanks,
Kip
http://www.springerav.net/
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| Subject: | Re: Tail Wheel Shimmy |
--> Kolb-List message posted by: robert bean <slyck@frontiernet.net>
Have you tried supporting the tail on the boom tube and wiggling
everything
to see what is loose? either that or the caster angle has changed
due to
some hard landings. You could rebend a little positive bow into it.
-BB do not archive
On 29, Nov 2004, at 7:46 PM, dama wrote:
> --> Kolb-List message posted by: "dama" <dama@mindspring.com>
>
> Gents, I cannot deal with this tailwheel anymore. It's a stock plastic
> Kolb
> tailwheel on a Firestar II that served me well for 4 years. A few
> months
> ago, I felt a vibration on takeoff and realized on landing that it was
> a
> tailwheel shimmy. It begins as I slow to about 15-20 mph on rollout. It
> leaves a nice rubber squiggle mark on the runway and eats the
> tailwheel away
> quickly. At first, I thought that the geometry of the wheel had
> changed from
> wear and ordered a new one as the old one had worn maybe 1/4 inch
> after 500+
> landings, most on hard surface. The new one does the same thing. I have
> tried different spring tensions and tightened and loosened the bolt
> that the
> assembly swivels on. Does anyone have an idea as to what may have
> changed?
> Thanks,
> Kip
>
> http://www.springeraviation.net/
>
>
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--> Kolb-List message posted by: GeoR38@aol.com
In a message dated 11/28/2004 5:44:07 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
billelder@denver.net writes:
Does anyone out there have a way that you are proud of, of lining up the
> main gear?
>
> Should the tires be soft or hard to keep from spreading when pushing or
> pulling depending on toe in or toe out?
>
> Does anyone have a system of minor adjustment there instead of drilling a
> new hole all the time when the tires are not PERFECTLY aligned? My landing
gear
> looks like Spongebob down under the axle fitting.
>
> Fortunately, I bent so many trying to land (a long time ago) that I have
> some restraightened to play with.
>
> bated breath George
--> Kolb-List message posted by: "Bill Elder" <billelder@denver.net>
George - Here's how I lined up the main gear after I bent the axels on my
Mark III Classic and put on new gear legs:
1. Snap a line on the hangar floor and put the tailwheel on the line. Then
drop a plumb off the nose hoop to get the front of the plane on the line.
2. Went to ACE Hardware and bought two 8' pieces of 3/4 inch alum. angle.
Use a bungee cord to strap the alum angle to the outside of the tire
horizontal with the floor (equal length of angle in front and behind the
tire).
3. Measure from the front of the angle to the line snapped on the floor,
and then from the rear of the angle to the snapped line, and rotate the axel
up or down until the front and rear measurements are the same.
4. Repeat for other tire. Worked well for me. Call if you have questions
at 303-838-2240.
Bill in Colorado
P.S. I then returned the alum angle to Ace for a refund.
I hear ya bill.....but how did you drill for the bolt...did you do any of it
on a drill press..or was it all done by hand drill?...and how do you keep
the thing from twisting while you hand drill?...and is it under pressure when
you drill or is it suspended? Someone said that they had an elongated hole in
the Aluminum part and twisted the fitting to the right location then squashed
it with shear Manpower on the nut to hold it by friction due to fitting
deformation.
that seems a bit risky...and indeed that is what I had, but something was
unsatisfactory as the wheels would always stray around for me
My airplane will probably fly good but landing is somewhat embarrassing when
the rolllout is ...er....sideways.
George Randolph
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