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0. 12:32 AM - Behind By 21% - Advertising May Be Needed...? (Matt Dralle)
1. 07:56 AM - Re: Behind By 21% - Advertising May Be Needed...? (Al Grajek)
2. 09:24 PM - Plexiglass Scratch Repair... (Matt Dralle)
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| Subject: | Behind By 21% - Advertising May Be Needed...? |
Dear Listers,
The percentage of people making a Contribution to support the Lists this year is
currently lagging behind last year by approximately 21%! I'm hoping that everyone
is just waiting until the last minute to show their support... ;-)
Please remember that it is solely your direct Contributions that keep these Lists
up and running and most importantly - AD FREE! If the members don't want to
support the Lists directly, then I will likely have to start adding advertisements
to offset the costs of running the Lists. But I *really* don't want to
have to start doing that. I really like the non-commercial atmosphere here and
I think that a lot of the members appreciate that too.
Please take a moment to make a Contribution today in support of the continued ad-free
operation of all these Lists:
http://www.matronics.com/contribution
I want to send out a word of appreciation to all of the members that have already
made their generous Contribution to support the Lists! Thank you!
Matt Dralle
Email List Administrator
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| Subject: | Behind By 21% - Advertising May Be Needed...? |
Hey Mike:
Sorry to be lagging behind this year. You will have my contribution by Mond
ay.
Keep up the great work
AL Grajek> Date: Thu=2C 20 Nov 2008 00:24:59 -0800> To: rv8-list@matronics.
com> From: dralle@matronics.com> Subject: RV8-List: Behind By 21% - Adverti
le@matronics.com>> > Dear Listers=2C> > The percentage of people making a C
ontribution to support the Lists this year is currently lagging behind last
year by approximately 21%! I'm hoping that everyone is just waiting until
the last minute to show their support... =3B-)> > Please remember that it i
s solely your direct Contributions that keep these Lists up and running and
most importantly - AD FREE! If the members don't want to support the Lists
directly=2C then I will likely have to start adding advertisements to offs
et the costs of running the Lists. But I *really* don't want to have to sta
rt doing that. I really like the non-commercial atmosphere here and I think
that a lot of the members appreciate that too.> > Please take a moment to
make a Contribution today in support of the continued ad-free operation of
all these Lists:> > http://www.matronics.com/contribution> > I want to send
out a word of appreciation to all of the members that have already made th
eir generous Contribution to support the Lists! Thank you!> > Matt Dralle>
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| Subject: | Plexiglass Scratch Repair... |
Dear Listers,
During the fitting of the Plexiglass canopy on my RV-8, I managed to put some pretty
disheartening scratches in the windscreen section. You can see from the
pictures that they looked pretty bad. A call to Van's revealed that a replacement
canopy would be $640 + $250 shipping to California! Ack.
So what to do... A bit of surfing and I found this "Scratch Off" windshield repair
kit for $35 on the Aircraft Spruce web site:
http://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/cspages/scratchoff.php
Frankly, it just seemed too good to be true. Nothing for $35 could be that "magic"
I thought, but what did I have to lose at this point....
Well, the kit arrived yesterday and I decided to give it a try tonight. In a word:
WOW! In about 2 hours the windscreen looked as good as new - no kidding
- AS GOOD AS NEW! The pictures really don't do the repair justice. It looks
better in person.
There are basically two sponges in the kit with four decreasingly porous pastes.
You just put some of the first paste on the sponge and buff it in with a drill
at 1200 RPM or less. Then you wash everything down good including the sponge
and windshield with warm water. Then you use the next finer paste and repeat
the process. Etc, etc, until you've used the 4th paste that is kind of like
car wax.
Frankly, the scratches were gone after the first application of paste - I started
at #2 based on the instructions and the "observed severity" of the scratch
depth.
So, the bottom line is, if you've got scuffs or mild scratches in your Plexiglass
buy this repair kit. It works!
Matt Dralle
RV-8 #82880
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