---------------------------------------------------------- Kolb-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Sat 08/07/10: 9 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 07:18 AM - Re: safety pins (gotime242) 2. 07:32 AM - Re: Re: safety pins (Mike Welch) 3. 02:29 PM - Scouting for Antelope (Larry Cottrell) 4. 03:12 PM - Re: Scouting for Antelope (John Hauck) 5. 03:28 PM - Re: Scouting for Antelope (John Hauck) 6. 03:30 PM - Re: Scouting for Antelope (John Hauck) 7. 05:03 PM - Re: Scouting for Antelope (Larry Cottrell) 8. 08:46 PM - Re: Scouting for Antelope (Larry Cottrell) 9. 09:00 PM - Acceptable horizontal stabilizer adjustment (Chris_A) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 07:18:50 AM PST US Subject: Kolb-List: Re: safety pins From: "gotime242" Sorry for bringing this thread up out of the grave, but i have a quick question. I have the safety pins (but just ordered safety rings)....when i picked the plane up the previous owner would put TWO safety pins in each hole. So..so far i have done the same. Anyone else do this? I kinda of worry that they might interfere with each other, and maybe give it reason to come loose....but on the other hand just one in there seems kind of weak. Thoughts? Thanks Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=307852#307852 ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 07:32:58 AM PST US From: Mike Welch Subject: RE: Kolb-List: Re: safety pins > I have the safety pins (but just ordered safety rings)....when i picked t he plane up the previous owner would put TWO safety pins in each hole. So.. so far i have done the same. Anyone else do this? I kinda of worry that the y might interfere with each other=2C and maybe give it reason to come loose ....but on the other hand just one in there seems kind of weak. > > Thoughts? Yeah. One safety ring in round hole is worth two pins in a bunch! Confucius ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 02:29:45 PM PST US From: "Larry Cottrell" Subject: Kolb-List: Scouting for Antelope A friend of mine has drawn a tag for Antelope here by the house. It is a given that I like to fly, but I really like to have a reason to fly. This qualifies! We also had a "Frog drowner" hail and rain storm yesterday afternoon that managed to wash some more of my runway over the hill along with every thing else. Water eroded my road and walk as well as depositing a lot of dirt and stuff on my grass. I am glad that I wasn't out in any of the canyons yesterday because a flash flood would have made it interesting. We got about an inch of rain in about 20 minutes. The hail stones were only about as big as marbles. Not lethal, but not fun either. The temps dropped from 97 to 67. I checked the runway and found that I could get the plane around the one wash out that I had, so since Antelope season starts next Sat. went to check the high country for Antelope. You have to remember that the camera lens is a wide angle, so things that I point out in the Video may be hard to see. I did put a still picture of the "more horses" in the video so that you could see them. Where they were was not a place to be screwing around down low, so strain your eyes. I am also very careful to not fly obviously low over any wildlife to avoid accusations of "Harassment". Now I realize that going to the trouble to make a video that you guy's can see is like "peeing in a dark suit. It gives you a warm feeling, but almost nobody notices". (Charlie Brown) What ever! Here it is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHqW2eC5e_U You may have seen this country before, it is high Desert at about 6000 feet altitude. There is lots of water in the form of springs and little creeks. The one ridge that I fly out on, drops off to the approach to Mickey Basin and the Alvord. The large Playa that you can see in front is Coyote Lake. I did find 7 different groups of Antelope, they have all gone as high as they can get to escape as much of the heat that they can. I burned 3.5 gallons of gas, traveled 67 miles in one hour and 18 minutes. I had a headwind of about 10 MPH going up there. Larry Note: If you forward this email, please delete the forwarding history, which includes my email address. ________________________________ Message 4 _____________________________________ Time: 03:12:41 PM PST US From: "John Hauck" Subject: Re: Kolb-List: Scouting for Antelope Larry: Enjoyed your early morning flight. Hail is reminicent of last year in May, along with a good rain and wind. Recognized Arrowhead Lake. Really liked the first of the clip when you flew up the creek and by the house to the west. Trying to recover as quickly as possible, but sure is slow. john ----- Original Message ----- From: Larry Cottrell Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 4:27 PM Subject: Kolb-List: Scouting for Antelope A friend of mine has drawn a tag for Antelope here by the house. It is a given that I like to fly, but I really like to have a reason to fly. This qualifies! We also had a "Frog drowner" hail and rain storm yesterday afternoon that managed to wash some more of my runway over the hill along with every thing else. Water eroded my road and walk as well as depositing a lot of dirt and stuff on my grass. I am glad that I wasn't out in any of the canyons yesterday because a flash flood would have made it interesting. We got about an inch of rain in about 20 minutes. The hail stones were only about as big as marbles. Not lethal, but not fun either. The temps dropped from 97 to 67. I checked the runway and found that I could get the plane around the one wash out that I had, so since Antelope season starts next Sat. went to check the high country for Antelope. You have to remember that the camera lens is a wide angle, so things that I point out in the Video may be hard to see. I did put a still picture of the "more horses" in the video so that you could see them. Where they were was not a place to be screwing around down low, so strain your eyes. I am also very careful to not fly obviously low over any wildlife to avoid accusations of "Harassment". Now I realize that going to the trouble to make a video that you guy's can see is like "peeing in a dark suit. It gives you a warm feeling, but almost nobody notices". (Charlie Brown) What ever! Here it is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHqW2eC5e_U You may have seen this country before, it is high Desert at about 6000 feet altitude. There is lots of water in the form of springs and little creeks. The one ridge that I fly out on, drops off to the approach to Mickey Basin and the Alvord. The large Playa that you can see in front is Coyote Lake. I did find 7 different groups of Antelope, they have all gone as high as they can get to escape as much of the heat that they can. I burned 3.5 gallons of gas, traveled 67 miles in one hour and 18 minutes. I had a headwind of about 10 MPH going up there. Larry Note: If you forward this email, please delete the forwarding history, which includes my email address. ________________________________ Message 5 _____________________________________ Time: 03:28:48 PM PST US From: "John Hauck" Subject: Re: Kolb-List: Scouting for Antelope ----- Original Message ----- From: John Hauck Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 5:12 PM Subject: Re: Kolb-List: Scouting for Antelope Larry: Enjoyed your early morning flight. john Gang: Appologize for my mistake. Was intended to go back copy to Larry. john h mkIII ________________________________ Message 6 _____________________________________ Time: 03:30:20 PM PST US From: "John Hauck" Subject: Re: Kolb-List: Scouting for Antelope ----- Original Message ----- From: John Hauck Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 5:12 PM Subject: Re: Kolb-List: Scouting for Antelope Larry: Enjoyed your early morning flight. john Gang: Appologize for my mistake. Was intended to go back copy to Larry. john h mkIII ________________________________ Message 7 _____________________________________ Time: 05:03:34 PM PST US From: "Larry Cottrell" Subject: Re: Kolb-List: Scouting for Antelope Hang in there, you will get there. This storm made that one seem like a drizzle. Karen was busy trying to vacuum up the water coming in the front door and I was bailing the hanger. I ended up having to dig a ditch across in front of where I keep the boat to redirect the water to the back of the house, so that we could keep the water from going around the house and into the front door. Larry Note: If you forward this email, please delete the forwarding history, which includes my email address. ________________________________ Message 8 _____________________________________ Time: 08:46:34 PM PST US From: "Larry Cottrell" Subject: Re: Kolb-List: Scouting for Antelope Man, It not enough that I sent it to all of you the first time, I have to do it again? Sorry! Just didn't look, thought it had John's email on it. Larry Note: If you forward this email, please delete the forwarding history, which includes my email address. ________________________________ Message 9 _____________________________________ Time: 09:00:39 PM PST US Subject: Kolb-List: Acceptable horizontal stabilizer adjustment From: "Chris_A" <50calibercruiser@cox.net> Hi guys, Im in the process of completing my tail boom rebuild and in fact nearly done. I have taken lots of pictures and will share my experience with the project shortly. However, this evening I was installing the horizontal stabilizers and even though I spent two hours making sure I had the proper center line on the boom I still managed to get the tail assembly slightly canted (counter clockwise of center). And by slightly I mean 2 difference from the far left edge to the far right edge of the horizontal stabilizers (outside to outside). The holes are drilled and rivets set so there is no going back. I have read through the original Firestar manual and page 12 paragraph one reads: Now check to see if the horizontal stabilizers are level and perpendicular to the vertical stabilizers. Also check to see if the top and bottom vertical stabilizers are straight [in-line] with each other. Adjust the cables by tightening one and releasing another until all the above conditions are met. It may take a fair amount of adjusting and re-adjusting to get everything in proper alignment Now as you have probably figured out this also means the vertical stabilizer is also canted. It is. The top edge is a .5 counter clockwise (left) of center, center being the drive shaft on the gear box. This seems easily corrected by adjusting the cables. My concern is the horizontal stabilizers, is adjusting the left side down one inch and raising the right side one inch acceptable? Other than this everything is dead on. I do realize this is the most important thing to not screw up. If you are wondering I did install the H-brace and boom to the cage first. My thinking was that it would be easier to have the boom on the plane before assembling the tail. Thanks, Chris Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=307895#307895 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other Matronics Email List Services ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post A New Message kolb-list@matronics.com UN/SUBSCRIBE http://www.matronics.com/subscription List FAQ http://www.matronics.com/FAQ/Kolb-List.htm Web Forum Interface To Lists http://forums.matronics.com Matronics List Wiki http://wiki.matronics.com Full Archive Search Engine http://www.matronics.com/search 7-Day List Browse http://www.matronics.com/browse/kolb-list Browse Digests http://www.matronics.com/digest/kolb-list Browse Other Lists http://www.matronics.com/browse Live Online Chat! http://www.matronics.com/chat Archive Downloading http://www.matronics.com/archives Photo Share http://www.matronics.com/photoshare Other Email Lists http://www.matronics.com/emaillists Contributions http://www.matronics.com/contribution ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These Email List Services are sponsored solely by Matronics and through the generous Contributions of its members.