---------------------------------------------------------- Kolb-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Mon 08/17/15: 3 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 06:19 AM - Re: Primer Bulb (Richard Pike) 2. 07:07 AM - Re: Re: Primer Bulb (Dee LeBlanc) 3. 08:18 PM - Re: Re: legs (Brad Nation) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 06:19:02 AM PST US Subject: Kolb-List: Re: Primer Bulb From: "Richard Pike" Hate to be the duty curmudgeon, but I had a couple problems with Heavenbound Aviation's guide. One is that he pictures a fuel filter with a paper filtering element. Will that still allow gas to flow through it if it gets a dose of water? If you use a good quality filter in your tank, then you can use an inline bronze filter in a transparent case with out any worries. The best tank filter/pickup is a replacement for the ones that go on in-tank car fuel pumps, they are fine mesh nylon, very large with lots of surface area, and pretty cheap. His description and pictures of using safety wire as a fuel line clamp is simply wrong. He uses one wrap and a straight twist. One wrap fails to secure part of one side, and a straight end is a good way to jab yourself and bleed all over your airplane every time you get near your fuel system. Double wrap and bend the end over like in the attached photo. (found that old filter & line in the scrap bin) Finally, I suggest never using blue urethane line for anything, period. Soft aluminum fuel line from Aircraft Spruce is cheaper and lasts forever if properly installed. Blue urethane can look good and feel soft, and break without warning. (Guess how I know this?) Good grade NAPA fuel line will still look good on the outside after many years and does not deteriorate, I use that where the aluminum line ends to connect to the carbs, fuel pump, etc. Worth what ya paid for it. -------- Richard Pike Kolb MKIII N420P (420ldPoops) Kingsport, TN 3TN0 There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.' Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=446069#446069 Attachments: http://forums.matronics.com//files/p1040718_small_157.jpg ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 07:07:00 AM PST US Subject: Re: Kolb-List: Re: Primer Bulb From: Dee LeBlanc Thanks for the information. Always helpful. Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 17, 2015, at 8:18 AM, Richard Pike wrote: > > > Hate to be the duty curmudgeon, but I had a couple problems with Heavenbound Aviation's guide. > One is that he pictures a fuel filter with a paper filtering element. Will that still allow gas to flow through it if it gets a dose of water? > > If you use a good quality filter in your tank, then you can use an inline bronze filter in a transparent case with out any worries. The best tank filter/pickup is a replacement for the ones that go on in-tank car fuel pumps, they are fine mesh nylon, very large with lots of surface area, and pretty cheap. > > His description and pictures of using safety wire as a fuel line clamp is simply wrong. He uses one wrap and a straight twist. One wrap fails to secure part of one side, and a straight end is a good way to jab yourself and bleed all over your airplane every time you get near your fuel system. Double wrap and bend the end over like in the attached photo. (found that old filter & line in the scrap bin) > > Finally, I suggest never using blue urethane line for anything, period. Soft aluminum fuel line from Aircraft Spruce is cheaper and lasts forever if properly installed. Blue urethane can look good and feel soft, and break without warning. (Guess how I know this?) Good grade NAPA fuel line will still look good on the outside after many years and does not deteriorate, I use that where the aluminum line ends to connect to the carbs, fuel pump, etc. > > Worth what ya paid for it. > > -------- > Richard Pike > Kolb MKIII N420P (420ldPoops) > Kingsport, TN 3TN0 > There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.' > > > > > Read this topic online here: > > http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=446069#446069 > > > > > Attachments: > > http://forums.matronics.com//files/p1040718_small_157.jpg > > > > > > > ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 08:18:52 PM PST US From: Brad Nation Subject: Re: Kolb-List: Re: legs Thought this is not Kolb but it is however flying. Yes they both were for different reasons. The B-57G taxi ride was when I was about 12 and we were stationed at Eglin A.F.B. Fl. Every month my Dad would take my brother and me to get our hair cut and breakfast. On this occasion we stopped by to check on his airplane, which was on the flight line as it had just getting some repair or maintenance. The Crew Chief suggested that my Dad take it for a taxi. I don=92t know who suggested that by brother and I get in the back seat. Of course being the obedient military brats we climbed right in. Being that we were just kids and their wasn=92t then normal parachute or survival pack seat so we weren=92t able see out out But that didn=92t matter, we were riding not just a military plane by Dad=92s plane. How cool was that? Very! The A-7 ride was an incentive ride while I was in the New Mexico Air National Guard. The flight started out as a 4 ship training mission to an MOA in Colorado, a bombing mission. Two of the planes had to return to base due to some mechanical problems. I got to fly pretty much the whole way up. For each run we would come in low, invert to acquire the target, roll out drop the bombs and pull out with about 3.5 Gs. Yes the G suites do work. After the bombing runs my pilot asks me if I=92m ready to join up with the lead. I tell him yes and he pulls up and do a few barrel rolls around the lead. I go to full O2. On the return to base over Northern NM we are doing some somewhat low level terrain following a few 100 feet off the deck. And that=92s when I ask the pilot what the yellow GEN light is for, he says give me some reply that isn=92t =93yeppy=94. He deploys the RAT (Ram Air Turbine) which is supposed to spin up in the slip stream and generate electricity for some of the hydraulics and such, nothing really important, just brakes, air conditioning, and some other stuff. By the way this is taking place in the summer in New Mexico it=92s hot but not nearly so as Phoenix. But it=92s a dry heat. I=92m informed that if anything else goes wrong we are punching out so we go over the ejection procedures. Fortunately we don=92t have to. We contact NMANG Ops and let home know we have an emergency. The A-7 was originally a Navy design so it has an arresting tail hook. It takes a bit for them to set up the arresting gear on the runway so we have to circle around a bit in the summer sun with no air-conditioning. The landing is uneventful but very quick. Had I been quick enough I should have asked to log the dual instruction time in my log book, not sure if that would have happened but it would have been nice. Brad ___________________________ =93Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.=94 -- President Ronald Reagan > On Aug 13, 2015, at 12:46 , Tom O'Hara wrote: > > > Yellowbird-- if we are really counting, they count. If we are not counting, they still count! Both must have been good rides! > > > > > Read this topic online here: > > http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=445900#445900 > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.