---------------------------------------------------------- Pietenpol-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Tue 04/07/15: 5 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 03:30 AM - Soliciting help for a friend, Spanish-speaking (danhelsper@aol.com) 2. 07:24 AM - Re: Soliciting help for a friend, Spanish-speaking (AircamperN11MS) 3. 07:50 AM - Re: Re: steel tube fuselage (Jim Brewer) 4. 01:08 PM - Some workshop ideas...... (aerocarjake) 5. 01:52 PM - Re: steel tube fuselage (nightmare) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 03:30:58 AM PST US From: danhelsper@aol.com Subject: Pietenpol-List: Soliciting help for a friend, Spanish-speaking Hello folks, As you heard I am trying to help a new Piet-building friend from Argentina, Mr. Fernando Risso. He wants to be a contributing member of the Matronics list but has been unable. Are there any Spanish-speaking fellows out there that can contact him, and help him accomplish this? Thanks in advance, Dan Helsper Loensloe Airfield Puryear, TN Hi Dan, Thank you so much for all your help with the guys at the Sun=C2=B4s Fun F =C3=B3rum at Matronics. Is very important for me as I always want to be the re. Is my dream come true. Do you know how I can be at Matronic f=C3=B3rum? Year ago I tried but I can not make it. I talked with Santiago and told me you flighed with him in your Pietenpol. It was incredible and he was very happy to know you and appreaciate you ver y much. I find a magneto Robert Bosch Z U4, what do you think for the Ford A? Attac h photos. I look foward to hearing from you and I hope one day we will meet. Or I will flight to USA with my Piet or you may come to Argentina with your Piet. You will be very wellcome!!! Sincererly Fernando From: danhelsper@aol.com Subject: Re: Pietenpol Hello Fernando, It is my pleasure to know you now. Of course I would be very happy to answe r any questions you might have about Pietenpols or their construction. Do y ou know Santiago Morete (moretesantiago@yahoo.com.ar) from Santa Rosa, Arge ntina? He is almost finished with his Ford-powered Pietenpol. He is a very good friend of mine and has visited me twice here in the U.S. He has been to Brodhead on two occasions now, the latest time just last year. He has cr eated, in my opinion, one of the most beautiful and exquisitely- built Piet enpols out there. He is a very kind man and I am sure he would be very glad to help you also. I always wanted to attend Sun-N-Fun, but cannot attend this year. If I can be of any service, please ask as many questions as you desire. I will alway s be glad to answer to the best of my ability. Sincerely, Dan H PS. What city are you from? My sister was an exchange student in 1970 to Ro sario. -----Original Message----- From: Fernando Risso To: danhelsper Sent: Mon, Mar 30, 2015 6:27 pm Subject: Pietenpol Hello Dan, My name is Fernando Risso. from Argentina. I always read all about the Pie tenpol airplanes at the site Matronics and that is why I have your mail. I=C2=B4m building a Pietenpol with Ford A engine and will go the Sun=C2=B4 s Fun Festinal next April 21st. in Lakeland, Florida. I would like to know if you will go too or if I can send you several quest ions and doubts that I have about the Pietenpol contruction. Sorry, but my english is no very good. Thank you for your time and I look foward to having your answer. Cordially regards, Fernando ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 07:24:04 AM PST US Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: Soliciting help for a friend, Spanish-speaking From: "AircamperN11MS" Dan, I wish I could help. Even being from So. CA I don't know a lick of Spanish. I also don't know anything about those mags. I think if he can still get parts for that mag that it would work for him. Thanks for helping this fellow out. Cheers, -------- Scott Liefeld Flying N11MS since March 1972 Steel Tube C-85-12 Wire Wheels Brodhead in 1996 Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=440371#440371 ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 07:50:31 AM PST US From: Jim Brewer Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Re: steel tube fuselage Tools, Could you be more specific about your experience as I haven't seen such bargains. Please point me in the right direction. On 04/02/2015 09:40 PM, tools wrote: > > I wouldn't automatically say the cost of tig welding is higher. I've bought two complete industrial quality tig rigs each for less than a decent set of bottles, regulators and hoses. > > There are a lot of reliable, single phase, American made tig rigs available lately for less than $500, complete and ready to weld. Including the argon bottle and regulator. > > > Read this topic online here: > > http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=440222#440222 > > ________________________________ Message 4 _____________________________________ Time: 01:08:49 PM PST US Subject: Pietenpol-List: Some workshop ideas...... From: "aerocarjake" Hello good Piet-ple, A friend of mine is setting up his hangar/workshop to build an RV-7. He has already built the empennage but that was in his basement. We were in touch about workshop ideas so I thought I'd pass along a few of my ideas here as well - for what it is worth: 1) Storage bins I have 50 identical/interchangeable Sterilite storage bins. (I would have more like 80 if I would do it again.) The trick is having the right size, not too big or too small. This way all the like items go together in each bin. Example ALL my screwdrivers are in one bin EVERY ONE. I dont have to keep looking around to find screwdrivers cause if it aint in that drawer, it aint in my shop. Also, when I clean up I just grab all the screwdrivers and dump them in the drawer really fast and WAY better than hooks/pegs/shadow boards, etc.. 2) EVERYTHING except the workbench is on wheels and in my case on the chrome/open racks from Costco or Storables. This way I can move things around depending on what I am doing and how I have to arrange the fuselage/wings/tools, etc. I have bins on the shelves below each moving cart that contain stuff related to that cart. Example, my METAL cutting bandsaw and metal press brake are on the same cart. All the 4130 pieces and press brake dies are on bins on that same cart. Similar, all the WOOD tools (bandsaw, chop saw, drill press) are on another cart, and GRINDING/SANDING are on another. 3) I store all the COMPLETED parts in the crawl space above the garage. This lets me keep only the parts I am actively working on in the shop. 4) I store as little raw material as I can. I have some sheets of metal and some partial sheets of various a/c plywood but I dont have the room to store more so I buy only what I need when I need it (Lowes is open till 9:00 or so every day!) The shop has evolved over the past seven years but many of the items I list above have been things that I have found to help. -------- 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=440386#440386 Attachments: http://forums.matronics.com//files/completed_parts_in_the_attic_166.jpg http://forums.matronics.com//files/storage_bins_207.jpg http://forums.matronics.com//files/workshop_carts_167.jpg http://forums.matronics.com//files/grinding_cart_145.jpg http://forums.matronics.com//files/jakes_workshop_2013_773.jpg ________________________________ Message 5 _____________________________________ Time: 01:52:36 PM PST US Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: steel tube fuselage From: "nightmare" check out Eastwood welders. ive got their mig and ac/dc tig. im happy with them. most comfortable with my oxy acety setup though. its just as Keri Ann described. if getting a tig I would make sure it can weld aluminum and stainless. 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