---------------------------------------------------------- Pietenpol-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Thu 12/11/14: 11 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 10:58 AM - Vi Kapler (dwilson) 2. 11:10 AM - Re: Vi Kapler (Ken Bickers) 3. 11:18 AM - Re: Vi Kapler (aerocarjake) 4. 11:29 AM - Re: Vi Kapler (Jeff Boatright) 5. 01:14 PM - Re: Vi Kapler (Ray Krause) 6. 01:24 PM - Re: Gooseneck Die (tkreiner) 7. 01:42 PM - Re: Vi Kapler (Jeff Boatright) 8. 03:17 PM - Gooseneck Die, Part Dieux (jarheadpilot82) 9. 05:49 PM - Re: Vi Kapler (taildrags) 10. 05:54 PM - Re: Gooseneck Die, Part Dieux (taildrags) 11. 06:04 PM - Re: Gooseneck Die, Part Dieux (jarheadpilot82) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 10:58:24 AM PST US Subject: Pietenpol-List: Vi Kapler From: "dwilson" Vi Kapler's daughter Rebecca asked me to inform you that Vi had a heart attack on Monday. He is on life support in the ICU at St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester. Please keep Vi and his family in your thoughts and prayers. Thank You. Dan Wilson Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=435598#435598 ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 11:10:58 AM PST US Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Vi Kapler From: Ken Bickers So sorry to hear this. Vi is a class act and true gentleman. I always looked forward to seeing him at Brodhead. Ken On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 11:57 AM, dwilson wrote: > > Vi Kapler's daughter Rebecca asked me to inform you that Vi had a heart > attack on Monday. He is on life support in the ICU at St. Mary's Hospital > in Rochester. Please keep Vi and his family in your thoughts and prayers. > Thank You. > > Dan Wilson > > > Read this topic online here: > > http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=435598#435598 > > ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 11:18:18 AM PST US Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: Vi Kapler From: "aerocarjake" wow - really sad to hear............ sending my best regards -------- Jake Schultz - curator, Newport Way Air Museum (OK, it's just my home) Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=435600#435600 ________________________________ Message 4 _____________________________________ Time: 11:29:36 AM PST US Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: Vi Kapler From: "Jeff Boatright" I met Vi way back in 1992 (still seems like not that long ago to me), at my first Brodhead. I've chatted with Vi at several Brodheads and Oshkoshs since then, and if memory serves, even an SnF. I was at that first Brodhead with my dad, who has since had two heart attacks. My dad survived both, but even with best outcomes, these are sobering moments for both the patient and the family. I now own a Pietenpol in partnership with my dad. The airplane and the world of Pietenpols have been a great common interest for us. Vi is part of that world. I still have a couple of letters from a correspondence that he and my dad had over the years. He is such a great representative of what the Pietenpol world is all about. I hope he makes it home for Christmas. Please let us know if you think cards, etc. to Rebecca and Vi would be welcomed or just a burden right now. Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=435601#435601 ________________________________ Message 5 _____________________________________ Time: 01:14:24 PM PST US From: Ray Krause Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Vi Kapler Such bad, sad news, I never met him, but he was an inspiration to me. He had the foresight to set up Oscar to carry on some of his past efforts. Ray Krause Sent from my iPad > On Dec 11, 2014, at 10:57 AM, dwilson wrote: > > > Vi Kapler's daughter Rebecca asked me to inform you that Vi had a heart attack on Monday. He is on life support in the ICU at St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester. Please keep Vi and his family in your thoughts and prayers. Thank You. > > Dan Wilson > > > > > Read this topic online here: > > http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=435598#435598 > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ Message 6 _____________________________________ Time: 01:24:29 PM PST US Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: Gooseneck Die From: "tkreiner" Guys, At this point in time, and assuming no one cancels, the entire bar has been spoken for. I'll let y'all know if anyone falls out... -------- Tom Kreiner Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=435605#435605 ________________________________ Message 7 _____________________________________ Time: 01:42:58 PM PST US Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: Vi Kapler From: "Jeff Boatright" If you would like to send something (not live flowers!) to Vi's room, the address is: Vitalis Kapler Room 726, Mary Brigh 4E St. Mary's Campus Hospital 1216 2nd Street S.W. Rochester, MN 55905 (507) 255-5123 The nurse asks that you NOT send live flowers. Anything else is OK. Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=435607#435607 ________________________________ Message 8 _____________________________________ Time: 03:17:08 PM PST US Subject: Pietenpol-List: Gooseneck Die, Part Dieux From: "jarheadpilot82" If anyone else missed out on the Gooseneck Die (like I did), and would like to join in on a group buy of another length of die, please contact me. I am willing to make the purchase and divvy it up, as long as others are interested in part of it. Just let me know. -------- Semper Fi, Terry Hand Athens, GA Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=435612#435612 ________________________________ Message 9 _____________________________________ Time: 05:49:24 PM PST US Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: Vi Kapler From: "taildrags" It is indeed sobering news. As Ray mentioned, I am glad to have been able to continue some of what Vi has done for the Piet community, but it's just a small part of who he is and what he has meant to so many, for so long. It was not that long ago that I spoke with him on the phone on a Saturday morning (it was afternoon, where he is), and discussed taking over the manufacture and sale of tail hinge parts for Air Campers. Little did I know what I would get from him a couple of weeks later, well packed in a recycled moving box. I expected to get a shoebox sized package with some leftover casting blanks and maybe a jig or two because he said he had some castings that he had rejected but that would be good for me to practice on. I was wrong. In the box were many hand-made (and well worn) tools and jigs that he used to make the hinges over the years, and each of them had an index card taped to it with handwritten notes on how he used each item and in what sequence. He included samples of the recommended hinge pins, AN screws, and representative parts in process. All with hand-written notes on index cards. He included a cutoff saw that he used to face off the hinge tabs, a machinist's vise that he used to clamp the hinge halves for drilling, and a wheel to mount adhesive-backed emery material to true up the bottom and sides. I have kept all of the handwritten notes, parts, and everything else. It all means something to me. When I discussed a price for acquiring the rights and the "tooling", Vi went quiet on the phone for more than just a few seconds and I thought maybe he was conferring with a family member about it or something, but he was thinking. I expected some lawyer talk and a discussion of liability, forms, and negotiations. I was wrong. "Well, I guess I would let you have it all for $100. Or maybe less." He spent more than that on what he sent me on the box plus the cost of shipping it to me. When he said that it was my turn to fall silent on my end. I was flabbergasted. Then we discussed why he had stopped making the parts and why he was glad that someone would be taking over the production of the parts. That has been my only personal contact with Vi Kapler, but it was enough. He has lived his life the way I want to live the rest of mine, and for the same reasons. -------- Oscar Zuniga Medford, OR Air Camper NX41CC "Scout" A75 power Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=435621#435621 ________________________________ Message 10 ____________________________________ Time: 05:54:24 PM PST US Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: Gooseneck Die, Part Dieux From: "taildrags" Belay that last! I think the word you want is 'deux' (second, in French). 'Les Dieux' are 'the gods' and I don't think any of them have goosenecks or want to die ;o) -------- Oscar Zuniga Medford, OR Air Camper NX41CC "Scout" A75 power Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=435622#435622 ________________________________ Message 11 ____________________________________ Time: 06:04:35 PM PST US Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: Gooseneck Die, Part Dieux From: "jarheadpilot82" Oscar, So much for my Spanish and Greek studies. I have no background in French, other than to recite the line from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" - "Of course I am French. Why else would I have this OUTRAGEOUS accent." (With an outrageous accent, of course) But the offer still stands... 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