---------------------------------------------------------- Yak-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Wed 03/21/07: 9 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 07:33 AM - News (Jill Gernetzke) 2. 08:23 AM - Re: CJ for sale. (Ernie) 3. 08:38 AM - Short Stacks (Jim Bernier) 4. 10:36 AM - Re: Re: CJ for sale. (Roger Kemp) 5. 10:38 AM - Re: Short Stacks (cjpilot710@aol.com) 6. 11:42 AM - Phoenix (Ira Saligman) 7. 01:11 PM - Rudder Balance Tube (Cpayne) 8. 03:56 PM - Re: Rudder Balance Tube (ANDREWS) 9. 05:26 PM - Looking for a tool-kit (tamara_b@telus.net) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 07:33:36 AM PST US From: Jill Gernetzke Subject: Yak-List: News Group, I have been offered a set of brand new Yak 55M wings, complete. This deal is rare indeed. I do not want to store the wings, so I will not buy them. If you are interested, contact me offlist. Also, check out our redesigned website. www.m-14p.com It still has some bugs, but we are working on the problems. Primashock designed it and Diego is a great guy to work with - very intuitive and creative. Carl and I will be at the RPA event in Rockford on May 18 - 20. We will be speaking Friday night and I hope they will slot us for a maintenance seminar on Saturday. We decided it was time for some meet and greet activity and look forward to putting faces with voices/names. Jill Gernetzke M-14P, Incorporated 4905 Flightline Drive Kingman, AZ 86401 -7417 (928)-681-4400 Fax(928)681-4404 www.m-14p.com ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 08:23:35 AM PST US Subject: Yak-List: Re: CJ for sale. From: "Ernie" Taking up drinking.....LOL, I have that down pat LOL, Yep, getting out of warbirds. My wife and I want to retire on a trawler and ply the oceans. So I'm selling everything, even the cats. So if someone wants a good deal on a nice CJ, lots of parts, an L-29, a Bonanza, a large house and hangar @ Leeward Air Ranch give me a call, hell if you bought everything, you would get a really good deal, I'd even throw in the cats too :) But seriously, I am motivated so no reasonable offers would be refused. I just flew the CJ a few days ago with Pappy for a memorial flight, and as usual, everything worked fine, the airplane has never let me down, and with the spares kit I have you would probably never be down. But I havent had to use any of my spares except for a few rocker cover gaskets and prop piston seals. Otherwise a nice plane. Ernie Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=102083#102083 ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 08:38:54 AM PST US From: "Jim Bernier" Subject: Yak-List: Short Stacks Gentlemen, I had the pleasure of flying in Collings Foundation's B-25 Tondelayo yesterday. Upon start-up it was back firing through the exhaust. During flight it was not. When it was taxied back and idled it began to back fire again, only more often. Sounded like a stuck exhaust valve on one cylinder. This plane used the Wright R2600-92 engine. The pilot explained it as due to "short exhaust stacks". Can this be true and how? Or was he just trying to give me comfort? Is this another job for MMO? Jim B ________________________________ Message 4 _____________________________________ Time: 10:36:09 AM PST US From: "Roger Kemp" Subject: RE: Yak-List: Re: CJ for sale. Ernie, I will pass this on. I have 2 YAKs now! Sorry to see you leave the community but am happy for you. Wish I could do that. I would be nice to shead all the encumberances and just live for myself, wife and God! Doc > [Original Message] > From: Ernie > To: > Date: 3/21/2007 10:30:41 AM > Subject: Yak-List: Re: CJ for sale. > > > Taking up drinking.....LOL, I have that down pat LOL, Yep, getting out of warbirds. My wife and I want to retire on a trawler and ply the oceans. So I'm selling everything, even the cats. So if someone wants a good deal on a nice CJ, lots of parts, an L-29, a Bonanza, a large house and hangar @ Leeward Air Ranch give me a call, hell if you bought everything, you would get a really good deal, I'd even throw in the cats too :) > > But seriously, I am motivated so no reasonable offers would be refused. I just flew the CJ a few days ago with Pappy for a memorial flight, and as usual, everything worked fine, the airplane has never let me down, and with the spares kit I have you would probably never be down. But I havent had to use any of my spares except for a few rocker cover gaskets and prop piston seals. Otherwise a nice plane. > > Ernie > > > Read this topic online here: > > http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=102083#102083 > > ________________________________ Message 5 _____________________________________ Time: 10:38:30 AM PST US From: cjpilot710@aol.com Subject: Re: Yak-List: Short Stacks In a message dated 3/21/2007 10:40:18 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, JBernier@dart.org writes: Jim B, Nothing wrong with the engines. The B-25 does have short exhaust stacks and she "barks" like a bitch. At idle speeds the barking sounds irregular, one because not all the cylinders have short stacks, and two: the firing order of the two engines are not synchronized with each other. The engine is very tightly cowl ed and some of her short stacks maybe only 8 or 9 inches long. She does sound like something is wrong - but it taint. Tondelayo has given us little problems since we put her on the line. Her engines have been the least. Of that vintage of warbird the B-25 is probably the easiest to fly, with only her engine out Vmc of 145 mph being a real concern. I've seen the same thing done to a M-14p (some short stacks on some cylinders and an collection ring on the others. Sounded horrible, but the engine was really OK. Jim "Pappy" Goolsby Gentlemen, I had the pleasure of flying in Collings Foundation's B-25 Tondelayo yesterday. Upon start-up it was back firing through the exhaust. During flight it was not. When it was taxied back and idled it began to back fire again, only more often. Sounded like a stuck exhaust valve on one cylinder. This plane used the Wright R2600-92 engine. The pilot explained it as due to "short exhaust stacks". Can this be true and how? Or was he just trying to give me comfort? Is this another job for MMO? Jim B (http://www.matronics.com/Navigator?Yak-List) Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com. ________________________________ Message 6 _____________________________________ Time: 11:42:49 AM PST US From: "Ira Saligman" Subject: Yak-List: Phoenix I will be in Phoenix the weekend of April 6-8. Will anyone be around? Send me a note offline or call, Ira Ira Saligman o 610 940 0420 c 610 324 5500 f 215 243 7699 isaligman@Saligman.com ________________________________ Message 7 _____________________________________ Time: 01:11:37 PM PST US From: Cpayne Subject: Yak-List: Rudder Balance Tube I confess, I was whistling through the graveyard when I only visually checked the Rudder Balance tube during yesterday's "general condition" inspection. Since I had just re-installed it following the September paint job, I assumed that all was OK. Came off in my inspector's hands; snapped across clean at the lower through hole. Inside there was a doubler tube that must have been field installed in China since it was merely an interference fit and not welded. Might have happened during a recent flurry of acro flights where I did a lot of heavy boot moves trying to get the CJ to perform like an Extra. Never gonna happen. So, I was embarassed that I missed it but grateful that it was found. Doug Sapp says that the Chinese had a service letter out on this item and later model CJ's were equipped with a thicker tube. OTOH, my inspector, Tom Scott was a Charles Taylor award winner, for you wrench types. Are there other CJ service letters that we don't know about? Craig Payne ________________________________ Message 8 _____________________________________ Time: 03:56:15 PM PST US From: "ANDREWS" Subject: Re: Yak-List: Rudder Balance Tube Craig : Send pictures of your balance Tube . Don Andrews ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cpayne" Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 1:10 PM Subject: Yak-List: Rudder Balance Tube > > I confess, I was whistling through the graveyard when I only visually > checked the Rudder Balance tube during yesterday's "general condition" > inspection. Since I had just re-installed it following the September paint > job, I assumed that all was OK. Came off in my inspector's hands; snapped > across clean at the lower through hole. Inside there was a doubler tube > that must have been field installed in China since it was merely an > interference fit and not welded. > > Might have happened during a recent flurry of acro flights where I did a > lot of heavy boot moves trying to get the CJ to perform like an Extra. > Never gonna happen. > > So, I was embarassed that I missed it but grateful that it was found. Doug > Sapp says that the Chinese had a service letter out on this item and later > model CJ's were equipped with a thicker tube. OTOH, my inspector, Tom > Scott was a Charles Taylor award winner, for you wrench types. > > Are there other CJ service letters that we don't know about? > > Craig Payne > > > ________________________________ Message 9 _____________________________________ Time: 05:26:08 PM PST US Subject: Yak-List: Looking for a tool-kit From: tamara_b@telus.net I am looking for the complete engine tool-kit (M14P or Housai). Please contact me off list. 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