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1. 06:11 AM - Re: 2-stroke muffler weak area (ropermike)
2. 07:01 AM - Re: Re: 2-stroke muffler weak area (frank goodnight)
3. 07:01 AM - Re: Ideas on enclosing trailer (Richard Neilsen)
4. 01:46 PM - Re: 2-stroke muffler weak area (Richard Pike)
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| Subject: | Re: 2-stroke muffler weak area |
I have welded cracks in mine several times. I had to drill small hole at both ends
of the crack and weld it with a torch and bailing wire. A friend of mine had
a muffler shop and he used bailing wire all the time. The challenge is finding
a piece of bailing wire that is not rusted. Of coarse the crack has to be
buffed clean and I let it cool slowly after welding.
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The next best thing to playing and winning is playing and losing!...Mike Hillger
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| Subject: | Re: 2-stroke muffler weak area |
Hi ,=0A=0ATie wire , the wire that is is used to tie the rebar togeather wh
en building =0A,comes in small rolls ,and can be bought=0Aat Home Depot-o
r Lows. great for gas welding, and lots of other useful things.=0A=0AFrank
=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A________________________________=0AFrom: ropermike <ropermik
e2002@yahoo.com>=0ATo: kolb-list@matronics.com=0ASent: Fri, August 20, 2010
8:11:24 AM=0ASubject: Kolb-List: Re: 2-stroke muffler weak area=0A=0A--> K
olb-List message posted by: "ropermike" <ropermike2002@yahoo.com>=0A=0AI ha
ve welded cracks in mine several times. I had to drill small hole at both
=0Aends of the crack and weld it with a torch and bailing wire. A friend of
mine =0Ahad a muffler shop and he used bailing wire all the time. The chal
lenge is =0Afinding a piece of bailing wire that is not rusted. Of coarse t
he crack has to =0Abe buffed clean and I let it cool slowly after welding.
=0A=0A--------=0AThe next best thing to playing and winning is playing and
losing!...Mike Hillger=0A=0A=0A=0A=0ARead this topic online here:=0A=0Ahttp
://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=309511#309511=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A
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| Subject: | Re: Ideas on enclosing trailer |
Check out http://www.oh2fly.net/Main_trailer_kolb.htm
George has put together a web site that shows a bunch of Kolb trailers
including mine. Why reinvent, better to take someone elses.
Rick Neilsen
1st Redrive VW Powered MKIIIC
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 5:47 PM, russ kinne <russkinne@mac.com> wrote:
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> Chris
> Some members may not know this, but up north, in the spring, there are
> ACRES of boat shrink-wrap peeled off of
> winter-stored boats & available for free. It is recycled and melted down
> but you can get a whole bunch for the asking.
> Good stuff too, even glue-able into bigger sheets.
>
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> On Aug 19, 2010, at 12:39 PM, chris davis wrote:
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>> George I built a trailer for my firestar KXP out of an old boat trailer
>> that I
>> lightened up the springs on and added better shocks to it worked great . I
>> covered it with the shrinkwrap that they use to wrap boats for winter
>> storage ,
>> I thought it would last one year and it lasted FIVE ! it only cost me a
>> couple
>> hundred dollars installed and I bet if I had done it again I could do it
>> myself
>> as it is very much like heat shrinking aircraft fabric only easier cause
>> you can
>> use a torch to shrink it and glue it together! Hope this helps and Im sure
>> you
>> can buy the shrinkwrap from a marine supply catalog you find online. Chris
>> Chris Davis
>> KXP 503 492 hrs
>> Glider Pilot
>> Disabled from crash building Firefly
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: GeoB <gab16@sbcglobal.net>
>> To: kolb-list@matronics.com
>> Sent: Thu, August 19, 2010 2:56:03 AM
>> Subject: Kolb-List: Ideas on enclosing trailer
>>
>>
>> I recently bought a Kolb FS-I. A trailer came with. It is a semi-converted
>> tilt
>> boat trailer. It has heavy steel square tubing welded on the periphery to
>> widen
>> it. Works OK, no big problem.
>>
>> I want to keep my plane out of the weather plus I want better security. I
>> am
>> puzzling over the best way to enclose the thing.
>>
>> I need to keep the cost down. I have been thinking of using 1/2 EMT and
>> bend it
>> to form stringers for sides and a roof with a curving transition. I am
>> thinking
>> of fastening patio roofing panels, corrugated roofing, or something on
>> there
>> for skin.
>>
>> I expect to use a light plywood for flooring. I may use a heavier grade
>> for the
>> two tracks that the main gear roll on.
>>
>>
>> The trailer is lightly sprung, and is great for the light-weight plane. I
>> need
>> to keep weight down so I don't have to add a leaf to the springs making
>> the ride
>> harsher.
>>
>>
>> The tilt feature isn't all that important to me. It has a hand-crank boat
>> winch
>> with a wide nylon strap near the front. I may do a spring-over-axle
>> conversion
>> in order to get more ground clearance, and to better match my 4x4. This
>> would
>> tend to minimize scraping the rear of the trailer on valley-gutters.
>>
>> Thinking of a vertical sort of boat prow on the front and the back.
>>
>> I am looking for ideas on skin and the stringers and well... really, ideas
>> on
>> everything. How to join the stringers to one another? What would be a
>> cheap(ish)
>> available light(ish) skin material? Shower enclosure gelcoat fiberglass
>> panels?
>> I have been watching craigslist for used aluminum or galvanized roofing
>> panels.
>> Maybe corrugated fiberglass panels?
>>
>> Thanks
>> GeoB
>>
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>> GeoB
>>
>> "Members of Congress should be compelled to wear uniforms like NASCAR
>> drivers, so we could identify their corporate sponsors"
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>> Read this topic online here:
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>> http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=309357#309357
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| Subject: | Re: 2-stroke muffler weak area |
I had decided a long time ago that I was the list cheapskate, but I guess not.
Gas welding rod is not free, but I never worried about spending what little it
costs to just go and buy the real thing.
Besides, I don't have any wire coat hangers, I threw em' all away years ago. All
they ever did was commit perverted acts among themselves in the darkness of
the closet. You could tell what they had been up to by the huge, tangled wad they
would always be in every time you wanted one...
Richard Pike
MKIII N420P (420ldPoops)
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