| When I moved to the No.- side hangars I met some REALLY good new friends, 2 of them are Micky and Jerry, I see them |
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| almost everyday I'm out there, they built a beautiful RV7. The other day they asked if I had any need for any machined parts, I |
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| shook my head and said no. then I got to thinking about the crappy plastic blast tubes I rigged for my magnetos. Yesterday I |
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| mentioned to them what I was thinking about Jerry immediately got out the calipers took measurements and made some notes. |
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| And today Mickey dropped the finished parts off !!!! Wow airplane friends are the BEST IN THE WORLD THANKS GUYS! I had |
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| set out today to install the 3M anti chafe tape on the underside of the wings where the flaps rub, but when Mickey had the parts |
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| there, I couldn't resist. I had to take a lot off of the aft flanges in order to provide some clearance with the crankcase and engine |
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| mounts, then figure where I'd put 3 rivets, match drilled them to the aft baffle, deburred, and then riveted them, got all using AN |
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| 470-5's except for one I had to use an LP4-3 pop. I noodled on how to fashion a bracket so as to direct the blast directly onto the |
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| surface of the magneto. I ended up using the mounting stud for the mag's themselves, and made a standoff bracket n(.0625"), |
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| and then used a DG 10 (?) clamp on the end of the bracket to hold the 5/8" scat tube and orient it correctly. Got the left side |
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| installed, need to finish up with the right side tomorrow. These are a MAJOR improvement over the old blast tubes and their |
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