---------------------------------------------------------- Kolb-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Tue 04/17/05:8 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 04:06 AM - regular stuff (Ted Cowan) 2. 06:01 AM - Alcohol and capacitance fuel senders (John Jung) 3. 06:13 AM - Sun & Fun (Airgriff2@aol.com) 4. 06:35 AM - Re: Alcohol and capacitance fuel senders (woody) 5. 12:37 PM - Re: Sun & Fun (DAquaNut@aol.com) 6. 06:52 PM - Re: Sun & Fun (Richard Swiderwski) 7. 07:18 PM - Re: Sun & Fun (dama) 8. 09:34 PM - [Please Read] Matronics Email Server Upgrade Complete! (Matt Dralle) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 04:06:14 AM PST US From: Ted Cowan Subject: Kolb-List: regular stuff --> Kolb-List message posted by: Ted Cowan do not archive. Just wanted to mention that -- bless their hearts -- the list is nice right now with all the rocket scientists gone-a-fly'n. Dont get me wrong, I love the info these guys impart but who really needs or cares about the formula for rocket fuel, just how much and how to light it. Right now you are discussing real stuff, blades and such as the list was intended. The ole saying, "when the pre-madonas' are away, the dummies will play". I are one. keep it coming. By the way, I too have installed the needle wrong in my ole firestar, 447 and had quite a thrill talking off and getting around the patch to land again. Live and learn. Ted Cowan. ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 06:01:12 AM PST US From: John Jung Subject: Kolb-List: Alcohol and capacitance fuel senders --> Kolb-List message posted by: John Jung Group, I believe that I have discovered a problem between alcohol fuels and capacitance fuel senders. I use my EIS for monitoring fuel. After moving to the Phoenix area, the EIS would indicate about 3 gallons when the tank was full. It would not respond to re-calibrating, either. So, I ordered a new probe. But, before I installed the new probe, the EIS started indicating fuel correctly again. What changed? I had switched to 100LL. Phoenix has gas with 10% alcohol, which I used until getting a hanger. More recently, a friend added a capacitance sender and a fuel gage to his Firestar II. Same problem. At my suggestion, he filled his tank with 100LL. Gage worked. Has anyone else run into this? John Jung Firestar II 503 Surprise, AZ ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 06:13:24 AM PST US From: Airgriff2@aol.com Subject: Kolb-List: Sun & Fun --> Kolb-List message posted by: Airgriff2@aol.com I returned from Lakeland last nite after a 27 hr drive. (2 days ). Other than a shower on wed. morning, the weather was great. The growds seemed down somewhat. Possibly because they were charging $30 a ticket for entree. That is tough to bring the family. Also the gas prices may have held some travelers back? Two things of interest I learned at the Kolb Trailer. They are looking into a 6 gal. gas tank and they are 1/2 way done in the development and design of returning the "LASER". Yes it will even be red but constructed out of composite material. I hope it wasnt meant to be a surprise but they didn't say to keep it quiet. Fly safe Bob Griffin near Albany NY ________________________________ Message 4 _____________________________________ Time: 06:35:21 AM PST US From: "woody" Subject: Re: Kolb-List: Alcohol and capacitance fuel senders --> Kolb-List message posted by: "woody" Check this months Kitplanes for a more in depth explanation of gasahol fuel and capacitance. Good timing eh. > > I believe that I have discovered a problem between alcohol fuels and > capacitance fuel senders. I use my EIS for monitoring fuel. After > moving to the Phoenix area, the EIS would indicate about 3 gallons when > the tank was full. It would not respond to re-calibrating, either. So, > I ordered a new probe. But, before I installed the new probe, the EIS > started indicating fuel correctly again. What changed? I had switched > to 100LL. Phoenix has gas with 10% alcohol, which I used until getting > a hanger. More recently, a friend added a capacitance sender and a fuel > gage to his Firestar II. Same problem. At my suggestion, he filled his > tank with 100LL. Gage worked. Has anyone else run into this? > > John Jung > Firestar II 503 > Surprise, AZ > > > -- > Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. > > ________________________________ Message 5 _____________________________________ Time: 12:37:14 PM PST US From: DAquaNut@aol.com Subject: Re: Kolb-List: Sun & Fun --> Kolb-List message posted by: DAquaNut@aol.com In a message dated 4/17/2005 8:13:57 A.M. Central Standard Time, Airgriff2@aol.com writes: The growds seemed down somewhat. Possibly because they were charging $30 a ticket for entree. That is tough to bring the family. Also the gas prices may have held some travelers back? Bob, Last time I went to S N F they charged a whole week of camping even if you just wanted to camp for 2 nites. They would not refund the difference. That is not fair . At least at oshkosh they will refund the days you dont use. Do you know if that is still the way they operate? If so I may never go back! Ed ( in Houston doing a last minute check over before breaking in my 447) ________________________________ Message 6 _____________________________________ Time: 06:52:41 PM PST US From: "Richard Swiderwski" Subject: RE: Kolb-List: Sun & Fun --> Kolb-List message posted by: "Richard Swiderwski" Hello Kolbers, George Randolph & I just got back from S & F tonite. It was a shocker to see the camping & registration fees-- well over $200 for 2 people for more than 3 days! It is still the premiere UL/Sport Plane/Experimental gathering of aviation, but I sure miss the good old days when it was affordable & not so over regulated with silly rules. We had a great time at the Kolb gathering on Friday nite. We had a great bunch with great stories. It was really nice to see old friends & put faces on some of our Kolb Listers. The weather was extreme for a Florida Spring. The cold blustering wind was unrelenting. Steve Green's hotdog grilling technique sure beat George's beans of last year. Personally I enjoyed the forums a great deal & learned some good stuff. Time for bed. ...Richard Swiderski ________________________________ Message 7 _____________________________________ Time: 07:18:13 PM PST US From: "dama" Subject: Re: Kolb-List: Sun & Fun --> Kolb-List message posted by: "dama" Thanks for the info, Richard... Kip http://www.springeraviation.net/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Swiderwski" Subject: RE: Kolb-List: Sun & Fun > --> Kolb-List message posted by: "Richard Swiderwski" > > Hello Kolbers, > > George Randolph & I just got back from S & F tonite. It was a > shocker to see the camping & registration fees-- well over $200 for 2 people > for more than 3 days! It is still the premiere UL/Sport Plane/Experimental > gathering of aviation, but I sure miss the good old days when it was > affordable & not so over regulated with silly rules. We had a great time at > the Kolb gathering on Friday nite. We had a great bunch with great stories. > It was really nice to see old friends & put faces on some of our Kolb > Listers. The weather was extreme for a Florida Spring. The cold blustering > wind was unrelenting. Steve Green's hotdog grilling technique sure beat > George's beans of last year. > Personally I enjoyed the forums a great deal & learned some good > stuff. Time for bed. ...Richard Swiderski > > ________________________________ Message 8 _____________________________________ Time: 09:34:13 PM PST US From: Matt Dralle Subject: Kolb-List: [Please Read] Matronics Email Server Upgrade Complete! --> Kolb-List message posted by: Matt Dralle 9:24pm PDT 4/17/2005 Dear Listers, The upgrade of the Matronics Email Server can be considered complete at this time. All known issues related to the upgrade process have been resolved and email services are running normal. The Nightly Digest processing has not yet been tested and will wait for tonight's update. If you encounter any odd behavior with respect to the Matronics Email Server over the next few days, please contact me via email at dralle@matronics.com or if that fails try dralle@speakeasy.net. Thanks to everyone for being patient through this arduous process of a major system upgrade! Matt Dralle Email List Administrator At 12:37 PM 4/16/2005 Saturday, Matt Dralle wrote: >Dear Listers, > >I will be upgrading the Matronics Email Server this weekend. This >includes some hardware improvements - more memory, faster, more capable >processors - as well as a complete operating system upgrade from >scratch. I hope to have both the old system and the new system running at >the same time to minimize the actual impact of the upgrade. > >Hopefully there will be little actual downtime during the transition, but >a few posts may get lost in the shuffle. If you don't see your post show >up on the List in the normal amount of time (plus a little bit), then >please just try posting it again. > >Upgrading the Matronics Email Server operating system (from Redhat Linux >7.2 to Redhat Linux WS 4) is a sizeable undertaking and requires a great >deal of work to port all of the utilities, programs, and scripts over to >the new system. 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