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1. 12:21 AM - Re: Brakes Not holding (B Young)
2. 12:57 AM - landing gear firestar (dany88)
3. 02:19 AM - Re: landing gear firestar (Dennis Rowe)
4. 08:49 AM - Re: Brakes Not holding (Richard Girard)
5. 01:16 PM - Re: Brakes Not holding (John Hauck)
6. 06:04 PM - Firefly flap question (Stuart Harner)
7. 06:18 PM - Re: Firefly flap question (John Hauck)
8. 06:57 PM - Re: Firefly flap question (Beauford)
9. 07:30 PM - Re: Firefly flap question (John Hauck)
10. 07:46 PM - Re: Brakes Not holding (Richard Girard)
11. 09:14 PM - Re: Brakes Not holding (Brad Nation)
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| Subject: | Re: Brakes Not holding |
I don't know but I don't think wd40 was a good idea. You may be able to
clean things with spray on brake parts cleaner. Then drag your brakes
during a high speed taxi
Don't let the cleaner get into the o rings of the caliper, only the pass
even if you have to remove them.
Boyd
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| Subject: | landing gear firestar |
How do I replace the main landing gear?
I unscrewed the bolt near the hub and the bolt inside the fuselage, but not sfilla
the bar of aluminum.
Why?
how can I do?
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| Subject: | Re: landing gear firestar |
Dany
Try applying penetrating oil through the bolt holes inside the fuselage. It seems
your gear legs are corroded to the steel sockets. Also apply some around the
gear legs where they protrude from the steel sockets.
Raise the fuselage and put a steel rod or a screwdriver through the lower bolt
hole that holds the axle socket to the gear leg and twist and pull from there.
You may want to try tapping down on the steel rod or screwdriver with a hammer
also.
Make sure you grease your new gear legs before assembly to avoid this in the future.
Dennis "Skid" Rowe
Mk3, 690L-70, Leechburg, PA
> On Jan 31, 2014, at 3:57 AM, "dany88" <danielecafaro@alice.it> wrote:
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> How do I replace the main landing gear?
> I unscrewed the bolt near the hub and the bolt inside the fuselage, but not sfilla
the bar of aluminum.
> Why?
> how can I do?
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| Subject: | Re: Brakes Not holding |
Brad, There are different fixes depending on how your Matco brake calipers
are designed.
Do they have pins and are mounted such that the caliper slides on the pins
in order that both pads contact the disk? If that is the case, use a
little, a very little, bit of grease on the pins and make sure the caliper
moves easily on them.
If it is the model that mounts the caliper to the mount plate such that the
caliper does not move, then you have to shim the caliper so that the
stationary pad just touches the disk. If it is too far away, and we're
talking thousandths of an inch, the mounting bracket and the disk have to
bend in order to get both pads in contact with the disk. If this is the
type of caliper and mount you have I would humbly suggest that you start
saving for a new set of brakes. If you use your brakes a lot it does not
take too many applications before they are once again out of adjustment and
you have to go through the shimming process again.
Rick Girard
do not archive
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 2:20 AM, B Young <byoungplumbing@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know but I don't think wd40 was a good idea. You may be able to
> clean things with spray on brake parts cleaner. Then drag your brakes
> during a high speed taxi
> Don't let the cleaner get into the o rings of the caliper, only the pass
> even if you have to remove them.
>
> Boyd
> Do not archive
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Mk IIIC
Thanks, Homer GBYM
It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.
- Groucho Marx
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| Subject: | Brakes Not holding |
Matcos float, both sides.
john h
mkIII
Titus, Alabama
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| Subject: | Firefly flap question |
OK guys, with the aileron in the neutral position, when you go to full
flaps, how far does the trailing edge of the flaps drop?
The reason I ask is I am working on the flaperon handle. I clamped
everything in place to make sure it was all aligned properly before drilling
and riveting. With the slider all the way back (handle in the down most
slot) everything lines up fine. When I move the handle to the uppermost
slot (full flaps) the slider only moves a little more than halfway of
non-painted area of the torque tube.
So, is there more travel on the torque tube than needed, or does the flap
handle bracket not allow enough travel?
>From the plans, total trailing edge movement of the ailerons is 8" (4" up
and 4" down). This seems a little small when looking at the ailerons, but
about right when looking at the joystick. So, if a 4" drop is normal for
aileron deflection, what is normal for flap deflection?
Thanks in advance,
Stuart
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| Subject: | Firefly flap question |
Should be about 40 degrees full down and 20 degrees half down. Or, I should
say, the flaps on my MKIII operate to those limits. I feel like it is a
near perfect rigging.
4 inches up and down travel of the ailerons seems to be about right. I'd
have to go over to the airstrip and measure mine to be sure.
john h
mkIII
Titus, Alabama
From: owner-kolb-list-server@matronics.com
[mailto:owner-kolb-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of Stuart Harner
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2014 8:04 PM
Subject: Kolb-List: Firefly flap question
OK guys, with the aileron in the neutral position, when you go to full
flaps, how far does the trailing edge of the flaps drop?
The reason I ask is I am working on the flaperon handle. I clamped
everything in place to make sure it was all aligned properly before drilling
and riveting. With the slider all the way back (handle in the down most
slot) everything lines up fine. When I move the handle to the uppermost
slot (full flaps) the slider only moves a little more than halfway of
non-painted area of the torque tube.
So, is there more travel on the torque tube than needed, or does the flap
handle bracket not allow enough travel?
>From the plans, total trailing edge movement of the ailerons is 8" (4" up
and 4" down). This seems a little small when looking at the ailerons, but
about right when looking at the joystick. So, if a 4" drop is normal for
aileron deflection, what is normal for flap deflection?
Thanks in advance,
Stuart
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| Subject: | Firefly flap question |
Brother Harner:
Mine droop about 2.5 inches at the trailing edge, but I have the original
fifteen inch chord flaperons.
Your results may vary with the shorter ailerons in the current plans.
Worth what ye paid fer it.
Beauford
FF-076
Brandon, FL
From: owner-kolb-list-server@matronics.com
[mailto:owner-kolb-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of Stuart Harner
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2014 9:04 PM
Subject: Kolb-List: Firefly flap question
OK guys, with the aileron in the neutral position, when you go to full
flaps, how far does the trailing edge of the flaps drop?
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| Subject: | Firefly flap question |
Sorry Kolbers. Disregard my response below. I thought we were talking
about MKIII's.
Getting old ain't for sissies.
john h
mkIII
Titus, Alabama
From: owner-kolb-list-server@matronics.com
[mailto:owner-kolb-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of John Hauck
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2014 8:19 PM
Subject: RE: Kolb-List: Firefly flap question
Should be about 40 degrees full down and 20 degrees half down. Or, I should
say, the flaps on my MKIII operate to those limits. I feel like it is a
near perfect rigging.
4 inches up and down travel of the ailerons seems to be about right. I'd
have to go over to the airstrip and measure mine to be sure.
john h
mkIII
Titus, Alabama
From: owner-kolb-list-server@matronics.com
[mailto:owner-kolb-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of Stuart Harner
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2014 8:04 PM
Subject: Kolb-List: Firefly flap question
OK guys, with the aileron in the neutral position, when you go to full
flaps, how far does the trailing edge of the flaps drop?
The reason I ask is I am working on the flaperon handle. I clamped
everything in place to make sure it was all aligned properly before drilling
and riveting. With the slider all the way back (handle in the down most
slot) everything lines up fine. When I move the handle to the uppermost
slot (full flaps) the slider only moves a little more than halfway of
non-painted area of the torque tube.
So, is there more travel on the torque tube than needed, or does the flap
handle bracket not allow enough travel?
>From the plans, total trailing edge movement of the ailerons is 8" (4" up
and 4" down). This seems a little small when looking at the ailerons, but
about right when looking at the joystick. So, if a 4" drop is normal for
aileron deflection, what is normal for flap deflection?
Thanks in advance,
Stuart
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| Subject: | Re: Brakes Not holding |
Maybe they no longer make that model, John, but the Mk IIIC/X, the "Plane
from Hell", had rigid calipers, and the name was cast into them. I made a
replacement caliper for another list member that were the same so I know
they made more than one set of them.
Rick
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On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 3:16 PM, John Hauck <jhauck@elmore.rr.com> wrote:
> Matcos float, both sides.
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> john h
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> mkIII
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> Titus, Alabama
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Zulu Delta
Mk IIIC
Thanks, Homer GBYM
It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.
- Groucho Marx
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| Subject: | Re: Brakes Not holding |
The float
Sent from my iPad
Brad
> On Jan 31, 2014, at 9:48, Richard Girard <aslsa.rng@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Brad, There are different fixes depending on how your Matco brake calipers
are designed.
> Do they have pins and are mounted such that the caliper slides on the pins
in order that both pads contact the disk? If that is the case, use a little
, a very little, bit of grease on the pins and make sure the caliper moves e
asily on them.
> If it is the model that mounts the caliper to the mount plate such that th
e caliper does not move, then you have to shim the caliper so that the stati
onary pad just touches the disk. If it is too far away, and we're talking th
ousandths of an inch, the mounting bracket and the disk have to bend in orde
r to get both pads in contact with the disk. If this is the type of caliper a
nd mount you have I would humbly suggest that you start saving for a new set
of brakes. If you use your brakes a lot it does not take too many applicati
ons before they are once again out of adjustment and you have to go through t
he shimming process again.
>
> Rick Girard
> do not archive
>
>
>> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 2:20 AM, B Young <byoungplumbing@gmail.com> wrote
:
>> I don't know but I don't think wd40 was a good idea. You may be able to c
lean things with spray on brake parts cleaner. Then drag your brakes during
a high speed taxi
>> Don't let the cleaner get into the o rings of the caliper, only the pass
even if you have to remove them.
>>
>> Boyd
>> Do not archive
>>
>>
>>
>> get="_blank">http://www.matronics.com/Navigator?Kolb-List
>> tp://forums.matronics.com
>> _blank">http://www.matronics.com/contribution
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> Zulu Delta
> Mk IIIC
> Thanks, Homer GBYM
>
> It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy
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> - Groucho Marx
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