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1. 05:49 AM - Re: Feb 20 to 24, hangar gathering, doing "stuff", Cha (tools)
2. 06:10 AM - Re: Re: Feb 20 to 24, hangar gathering, doing "stuff", Cha (larharris2 Harris)
3. 09:24 AM - Re: Still no newsletter... (taildrags)
4. 09:29 AM - Re: Scouting for a new home (taildrags)
5. 05:52 PM - Re: Feb 20 to 24, hangar gathering, doing "stuff", Cha (tools)
6. 08:24 PM - safety wire (taildrags)
7. 08:51 PM - Re: safety wire (Gary Boothe)
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| Subject: | Re: Feb 20 to 24, hangar gathering, doing "stuff", Cha |
THANKS for coming! We actually had a pretty good showing of Pieters whom I thought
ALL integrated well with the old woodworking machines crowd.
The weekend (still underway, just had a newcomer show a few minutes ago) was fantastically
productive. The Carrollton gang pledged to come early and stay next
year to help (BADLY needed) mentor the Piet crowd with their projects.
Everyone pitched in a lot to keep things moving. However, it was Kellie and Judy
who, for no other than reason being saints, brunted the VAST majority of responsibility
for folks being fed WELL and timely. My philosophy is let grown
men fend for themselves... probably flawed thinking anyway! Thanks to them!
Hope to see more folks next year. There's some pics in the "events" section of
OWWM.ORG for folks who want to visit vicariously.
Cheers,
Tools
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| Subject: | Re: Feb 20 to 24, hangar gathering, doing "stuff", |
Cha
I showed up Sat. but was mostly a 'lurker'. My undying gratitude for your g
reat hospitality. If you hold the event next year=2C I think I can promise
to bring a (mostly) completed Piet from Tellico Plains=2C TN=2C & I will ge
t more involved in participation. Many thanks for an exceptional event.
Lorenzo
> Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: Feb 20 to 24=2C hangar gathering=2C doing "s
tuff"=2C Cha
> From: n0kkj@yahoo.com
> Date: Sun=2C 23 Feb 2014 05:49:08 -0800
> To: pietenpol-list@matronics.com
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> THANKS for coming! We actually had a pretty good showing of Pieters whom
I thought ALL integrated well with the old woodworking machines crowd.
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> The weekend (still underway=2C just had a newcomer show a few minutes ago
) was fantastically productive. The Carrollton gang pledged to come early
and stay next year to help (BADLY needed) mentor the Piet crowd with their
projects.
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> Everyone pitched in a lot to keep things moving. However=2C it was Kelli
e and Judy who=2C for no other than reason being saints=2C brunted the VAST
majority of responsibility for folks being fed WELL and timely. My philos
ophy is let grown men fend for themselves... probably flawed thinking anywa
y! Thanks to them!
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> Hope to see more folks next year. There's some pics in the "events" sect
ion of OWWM.ORG for folks who want to visit vicariously.
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> Cheers=2C
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| Subject: | Re: Still no newsletter... |
Got mine in Friday's mail, and I'm over in the Pacific NW. Good job, John!
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Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
Air Camper NX41CC "Scout"
A75 power
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| Subject: | Re: Scouting for a new home |
A little more progress towards a return to flight. Got the oil screen out, cleaned,
and the residue inspected (nothing seemed to be glittering in there). Thanks
to Mike Cuy or whoever it was who suggested running the cleaning solvent
and residue through a coffee filter and then letting it dry to see what's in
there. Works great.
Cleaned the carb inlet screen, drained the float bowl (and yes, I lifted the tail
to try to get as much as I could out of there). Just looking for crud anywhere
I can think of.
Re-torqued the prop bolts and safetied them. I think everything is ready to go,
firewall forward. Just need to reinstall my centersection flop and the new
rear cockpit windscreen, check the brake fluid level in the masters, and I think
it's ready to fuel up. That will have to wait till next weekend... too busy
right now.
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Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
Air Camper NX41CC "Scout"
A75 power
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| Subject: | Re: Feb 20 to 24, hangar gathering, doing "stuff", Cha |
You are VERY welcome, it was my pleasure. I do hope to see you again next year.
There should be a lot more Piet mentors there next year. Speaking of, you
would be a good mentor as you now have a feel for how things run and what it's
like.
Thanks for coming!
Tools
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By the way, and since the list is fairly quiet right now, I'll take a minute to
post this. The words "safety wire" should be changed to something else. Every
time I have to safety something, I end up with more cuts than a government
sequester and "safety wire" is quite unsafe when it comes to its tendency to draw
blood. The two worst offenders are the .041 and the .020. The medium-sized
wire is fairly well behaved because you can bend it easily and tease it into
place with your fingers, but the .041 is a beast to deal with unless you use
pliers and the small stuff is like a tiny silver viper, just waiting to get you
with its little fang. And just try working it in a blind area without getting
bitten.
The other thing about safety wire is that I waste a lot of it by re-doing the safetying.
I can never remember the right way to safety pairs of things and I
have to start over, or I cut the piece of wire just a little too short and have
to start over. I've also noticed that I get the dirty eye from A&Ps when I
use any of the smaller sizes of wire. They want everything done in .041 unless
the hole in the fastener simply will not pass that size of wire, and it's crazy.
Why do we even have anything but .041 then? And why try fishing it through
all the little screws and jets and things on a Stromberg carb?
My guess is that I could take my big old single-speed Craftsman 1/2" drill and
chuck a fly cutter in it, then stake it down with a piece of .041 safety wire
and try to bore a hole in some kind of gnarly material with the fly cutter off-axis,
and that thing could bite and claw and try to torque itself like a fork
in spaghetti and a single strand of .041 could hold it. Why in heaven's name
we need to put that heavy safety wire on little fasteners and turnbuckles I will
never know.
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Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
Air Camper NX41CC "Scout"
A75 power
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Fortunately, the manufacturer of NX308MB specified .020.
Gary Boothe
NX308MB
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From: owner-pietenpol-list-server@matronics.com
[mailto:owner-pietenpol-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of taildrags
Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2014 8:24 PM
Subject: Pietenpol-List: safety wire
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By the way, and since the list is fairly quiet right now, I'll take a minute
to post this. The words "safety wire" should be changed to something else.
Every time I have to safety something, I end up with more cuts than a
government sequester and "safety wire" is quite unsafe when it comes to its
tendency to draw blood. The two worst offenders are the .041 and the .020.
The medium-sized wire is fairly well behaved because you can bend it easily
and tease it into place with your fingers, but the .041 is a beast to deal
with unless you use pliers and the small stuff is like a tiny silver viper,
just waiting to get you with its little fang. And just try working it in a
blind area without getting bitten.
The other thing about safety wire is that I waste a lot of it by re-doing
the safetying. I can never remember the right way to safety pairs of things
and I have to start over, or I cut the piece of wire just a little too short
and have to start over. I've also noticed that I get the dirty eye from
A&Ps when I use any of the smaller sizes of wire. They want everything done
in .041 unless the hole in the fastener simply will not pass that size of
wire, and it's crazy. Why do we even have anything but .041 then? And why
try fishing it through all the little screws and jets and things on a
Stromberg carb?
My guess is that I could take my big old single-speed Craftsman 1/2" drill
and chuck a fly cutter in it, then stake it down with a piece of .041 safety
wire and try to bore a hole in some kind of gnarly material with the fly
cutter off-axis, and that thing could bite and claw and try to torque itself
like a fork in spaghetti and a single strand of .041 could hold it. Why in
heaven's name we need to put that heavy safety wire on little fasteners and
turnbuckles I will never know.
--------
Oscar Zuniga
Medford, OR
Air Camper NX41CC "Scout"
A75 power
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