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1. 12:54 AM - Re: Kolbra video (ces308)
2. 06:05 AM - Re: Kolbra video (tkben002)
3. 09:25 AM - Re: Strut Fairings (Richard Pike)
4. 09:57 AM - Re: Strut Fairings (Dennis Thate)
5. 11:27 AM - Re: Re: Strut Fairings (Rick Neilsen)
6. 11:41 AM - Re: New Firefly owner looking for Mark III training in PA (mburdge39)
7. 12:55 PM - Tiny Tach custom coax length (mburdge39)
8. 01:34 PM - Re: Strut Fairings (Richard Pike)
9. 01:39 PM - Re: Thom, Chris or Jabiru owners (tkben002)
10. 05:24 PM - Re: Tiny Tach custom coax length (Ellery Batchelder Jr)
11. 06:28 PM - ANR head sets (SS568)
12. 06:57 PM - Re: ANR head sets (Larry Cottrell)
13. 07:33 PM - Re: ANR head sets (b young)
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Subject: | Re: Kolbra video |
Nice job ,Travis !! Your airplane looks great too !
How did you make out on your cooling???
chris ambrose
M3X/Jabiru A-2200 230.hrs
N327CS
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Subject: | Re: Kolbra video |
Chris, still working on the cooling, have been tilting the carb to get my egt's
closer and found out they were hooked up backwards. I think I am going to go
ahead and order the Jabiru needle and some jets, they are ok now but last weekend
I flew in the morning and it was around 50 degrees and the egts were back
over 1400. I am off today so I will make some baffles and see how that turns
out.
Travis Bennett
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Subject: | Re: Strut Fairings |
Dennis Thate wrote:
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> Richard,
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> How about a close up photo of this stream lined landing gear idea, is it riveted
like the wing strut covers ?
Here ye be! These are the plastic lift strut fairings that Kolb sells, cut down
to fit. I make paper templates of how I want the top and bottom to fit, do the
bottom first, and the top last.
Jack the airplane up and remove the bolt that holds the gear leg in place, slip
the fairing over the leg and then put the gear leg back in the socket. Do the
bottom first, a Moto-Tool works well. Then with the leg slid most of the way
in to where it needs to be in the socket, make the upper template out of paper
and trace it on the leg. Keep cutting it off a bit at a time until the leg goes
in far enough for the bolt to fit. I probably put each gear leg in and out
25 times.... groan... A tedious process, but gives decent results.
Because of how the fairing slips over the top and bottom hardware, it does not
need to be anchored to anything, it cannot rotate or move enough to matter. I
ran my brake line down the inside of mine. Just a word of warning - mine were
not symmetrical, the templates for one side were close for the other, but not
quite. Why? - ??? So don't assume.
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Richard Pike
Kolb MKIII N420P (420ldPoops)
richard (at) bcchapel(dot)org
Kingsport, TN 3TN0
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Hebrews 11:1
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Subject: | Re: Strut Fairings |
Thanks Richard for taking the time to get and post the photos. Was the benefit
worth the effort & cost ?
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents
the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. ~Gil Stern
These flying machines are just a fad and will never catch on Unknown
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Subject: | Re: Strut Fairings |
My gear legs are the thin tapered solid spring steel legs. I used a
insulating product in a can called Tough Stuff. Applied it to the front and
back of the gear legs and used a knife to cut it into the basic stream line
shape when dry then sanded for more precise shape. Then I mixed
micro balloons and epoxie to fill holes and smooth out the surface. I was a
bit impatient and it doesn't look very good so I will not send any photos.
With more care it would be fine. It was quick and easy. My gear legs are
small but I didn't notice any improvement in speeds.
I use Great Stuff for lots of things. Even used it to fill the fuselage tub
e
to stop the leaf blower effect. Big mistake. I almost broke the control
cables trying to free them up from the foam. It did stop the air movement.
Rick Neilsen
Redrive VW Powered MKIIIC
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Dennis Thate <retroman@frontier.com>wrote
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> Thanks Richard for taking the time to get and post the photos. Was the
> benefit worth the effort & cost ?
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> Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist
> invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. ~Gil Stern
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> =85=94These flying machines are just a fad and will never catch on=85=94
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Subject: | Re: New Firefly owner looking for Mark III training in PA |
Guess I should have said rudder "pedals" are new to me.
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Mike
Firefly
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Subject: | Tiny Tach custom coax length |
Tiny Tach can customize the length for me when I place my order. Would anyone know
the length I would need for my Firefly? Not at the hangar to do the measuring
myself. Thanks!
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Mike
Firefly
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Subject: | Re: Strut Fairings |
Dennis Thate wrote:
> Was the benefit worth the effort & cost ?
On the flight right after installing them, I immediately noticed that the airplane
wanted to fly much more nose up so that I had to add nose down trim to make
it fly normally. Apparently it diminished the gear leg drag enough to change
the way the airplane flew. Now did I notice it going any faster? No. But by modifying
a bunch of little things here and there, did I notice that at a given
speed, I could use less RPM? Yes. Lots of little things do add up, either in
the plus or minus column, depending on what they are.
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Richard Pike
Kolb MKIII N420P (420ldPoops)
richard (at) bcchapel(dot)org
Kingsport, TN 3TN0
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Hebrews 11:1
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Subject: | Re: Thom, Chris or Jabiru owners |
Well, I finally built some baffles. I built a front and rear only and only on
the cylinders 2 and 4 bank. I only have 2 cht probes so I moved them both to
that side so I can tweak it as needed. I went and flew for an hour and could
not get the chts on either one over 330 to 335 and that was climb to 5k ft at
60 mph. At cruise the hottest one (the back cylinder) was anywhere from 295 to
305. So far the results are good, still need to work at it though.
Travis Bennett
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Subject: | Re: Tiny Tach custom coax length |
it is not a big deal to lengthen the wire your self just add on to your wir
es and hook the ground to a good Ground
and Hook your sensor wire (something you can wrap around your plug wire and
stay that way ) something in a single conductor works great
this is just what you paid for it but it works for me
Ellery Batchelder Jr.
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From: mburdge39 <mburdge@windstream.net>
Sent: Mon, Oct 10, 2011 3:55 pm
Subject: Kolb-List: Tiny Tach custom coax length
Tiny Tach can customize the length for me when I place my order. Would anyo
ne
now the length I would need for my Firefly? Not at the hangar to do the
easuring myself. Thanks!
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ike
irefly
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I am looking for a headset. Since there is lots of experience on here, Is the
extra cost of active noise reduction headsets justified. Usually 2 to 3 hundred
$ more.
Thanks,
David d.
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Kolb Mark IIIX 582 Blue head
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Subject: | Re: ANR head sets |
My suggestion would be to try several different headsets to see which
one works for you. I had a DRE 6000 that almost every one else thought
improved their ability to hear, I got better noise reduction from a
Sigtronics S45. A friend of mine put ANR innards into a S45. For me it
does nothing, but he swears by it.
Larry, just a little bit different!
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From: SS568
To: kolb-list@matronics.com
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 7:26 PM
Subject: Kolb-List: ANR head sets
I am looking for a headset. Since there is lots of experience on
here, Is the extra cost of active noise reduction headsets justified.
Usually 2 to 3 hundred $ more.
Thanks,
David d.
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Kolb Mark IIIX 582 Blue head
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Subject: | Re: ANR head sets |
I am looking for a headset. Since there is lots of experience on here, Is
the extra cost of active noise reduction headsets justified. Usually 2 to 3
hundred $ more.
Thanks,
David d.
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Kolb Mark IIIX 582 Blue head
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I started out with a standard headset, I had to call the company and get a
new mike designed for high noise environment, the new mike kept the noise
level down in the intercom, at that point I was quite happy, then tried an
ANR headset, it took out a lot of the low end noise, and made it more
comfortable to fly. I also had to call the factory and they told me how to
adjust the mike gain down, again so the ambient noise did not overpower the
intercom. the noise canceling worked better when I connected it to a
battery eliminator, instead of the 9 volt battery. the battery eliminator
also powers my radio and intercom.
boyd young
mkiii utah
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