---------------------------------------------------------- Pietenpol-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Sun 02/05/06: 4 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 12:48 PM - Re: Cad Layout (Rick Holland) 2. 06:53 PM - update on FlyCorvair website... (Oscar Zuniga) 3. 07:39 PM - Re: fuel tank sealer. (Gary Gower) 4. 08:47 PM - Prop Hubs (rod wooller) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 12:48:59 PM PST US From: Rick Holland Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Cad Layout Good point Chuck, my TurboCad Version 8 cd says "Windows XP Compatible". Good thing to check for. Rick H On 2/4/06, Rcaprd@aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 2/4/2006 12:28:50 PM Central Standard Time, > at7000ft@gmail.com writes: > > Also, for anyone that is looking for inexpensive cad software I found one > or two versions old copies of TurboCad for $5 to $10 on eBay. Nothing like > AutoCad but far more than we need for simple 2D stuff. > > Caution: I have one of the early versions of TurboCad that I used on my > old computer. It will NOT work with the newer Windows oporating > systems...gotta go buy another Cad program !! > > Chuck G. > NX770CG > -- Rick Holland "Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers, that smell bad" ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 06:53:50 PM PST US From: "Oscar Zuniga" Subject: Pietenpol-List: update on FlyCorvair website... --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: "Oscar Zuniga" William Wynne has posted an update to his "At The Hangar" page at http://www.flycorvair.com/hangar.html Included is information on nitriding cranks and progress on the 5th bearing project that William hopes to have completed and flying by Sun 'n' Fun. Oscar Zuniga San Antonio, TX mailto: taildrags@hotmail.com website at http://www.flysquirrel.net ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 07:39:52 PM PST US From: Gary Gower Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: fuel tank sealer. Our professional experience in our factory is more with Stainless Steel, but when we were building our Zenith 701, we noted that the aluminum needs treatment to recieve any paint, We painted some little parts before assembly, the paint peeled so we unriveted them and painted with Zinc Cromate as a primer. Not using Zinc Cromate will make the paint peel off, probably same happens with the sealant over the inner surface of the tank??? Is suposed that this fuel tank sealers are developed that way... But for how long (years)? or does some autogas ruins the sealent? The tanks with sealer in the rivet joints only dont leak, neither the welded ones, when done correct. Just my point of view. Could be completly wrong. Saludos Gary Gower Rick Holland wrote: Sounds like the best way to go, if you can weld aluminum, or know someone that can, is to just do a welded tank and avoid the sealer problem all together. Or am I missing something? On 2/4/06, Gary Gower wrote: Hello Dick, Here in our factory, my brother Larry is a good welder, so as we fly and build airplanes, once in a while we get some weld jobs for friends pilots... A friend brought once an alu wing tank from a Kitfox to see if can be fixed, the idea of the owner was to make an "inspection window" in the tank to see why it cloged often and didnt transfer to the header,... later close-weld the window. Not easy to do, with the thin aluminum used in that tank, We though was better to make a new one, so we opened it (cut, no heat), what we found was that all the sealer inside was peeling off. This was a factory demo, that the owner bought in the spot. so (I think) was sealed well... Was a white material. Also I read from the VW conversion list by Mr. Bob "the other" H oover, by the way a very experienced home builder, that the sealant should be used only when the tank was riveted instead of welded, using the sealant as a "gasket" betwen the two areas to rivet. Also he uses only one brand of sealer, but cant remember the name now. -- Rick Holland "Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers, that smell bad" --------------------------------- ________________________________ Message 4 _____________________________________ Time: 08:47:00 PM PST US From: "rod wooller" Subject: Pietenpol-List: Prop Hubs --> Pietenpol-List message posted by: "rod wooller" Has anyone got a prop hub on order from William Wynn? I ordered one in October last year but can't find out an expected delivery date as my emails to William aren't answered and his phone is permanently engaged. Rod Wooller Chidlow Australia