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Barry,
It is also with a laugh and tongue-in-cheek that I offer my own two cents to your comments.

"Rotec" is an Australian company who has been selling radial engines, of their own desi ...

[quote="FlyboyTR"]
I drilled a 1/8" hole in each cavity on the bottom of the flaperon. I then sprayed Corrosion-X into each cavity and closed the hole with an aluminum rivet. At leas ...

Jake, first off my disclaimer is that I have a half finished (and 90% to go) Kitfox- not a Zenith product. The Zenith lists are just one of the places I lurk on the Matronics website. Anyway, a coup ...

My 7 uses 3/8" rod ends at each end of the wing struts. That is, the long threaded part of the rod is 3/8x24 (UNF), that attaches to the strut. The ball has a 1/4" hole, a 1/4" bolt a ...

[quote="Float Flyr"]
When I saw the first "Chamois" filter I was surprised to find out that what
they were actually using was a felt. One of the properties of felt is it
stops ...

Prepare to make a mess: the primer will want to leak past the tennis ball plugs and around the rivet holes. Covering the rivets with masking tape may limit but probably not eliminate this. When it f ...

[quote="lcfitt(at)sbcglobal.net"]
Some of the structure in our airplanes is
subject to distortion with over shrunk fabric - the wasp waist seen in some
aft fuselage sections as an examp ...

Lynn, that was one of the original Series 7s that Skystar built. It had a Rotax 914 engine and two-blade Hoffman CS prop (hydraulic governor). Apparently it could really go when it got up high (up h ...

It's going back a few years, but the original Hawker Hurricane was a 300mph tube and fabric airplane Smile

If there is a must-read for the first time buider, Ron Wantajja's book is a strong candidate. ...

You might try posting the same question (about your sump) on the Engines.

Jim
(not even subscribed to Continental, just some free time surfing the web forums)

Darin, my left butt rib is pretty close to parallel and what I think you mean is the header tube (the tube parallel to and about 2" above the upper door frame). My right butt rib is actually alm ...

Sure...

I will have to trim 13/16" from each rear tab, 3/4" from the front-right, and 7/8" from the front-left... I think the variation is because I had to bend all four tabs in a z ...

Sorry about the filesize everyone. I shrunk it to 64k but then uploaded the original, huge, file.

This is a little blurred, but I put a yardstick in there at the same time to maybe help...

This is the rear of my left butt rib. You can see the two rivet heads holding the butt rib to the tab, an ...

Gary, what part of the Grand is that? I spent several formative years in West Brant.

Thanks

Jim in NW FL
Series 7 in progress