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  1. jackc
    I use a soda gas bottle kit, 2 -3 bottles will blow up a BMW 1200 GS Tyre. I carry a Gorilla Snot tyre repair kit onboard my Vespa 300 GTS Super scooter. 1 bottle will pump up its tubeless tyre, when flat.
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    Not so sure they work very well on AGM batteries, especially spiral plate ones?
  3. jackc
    Whilst YouTube can be your friend, nothing can beat some training BEFORE you attempt to take to the sky 🙂
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    Once a battery goes flat, you can recover it but it will lose capacity a small amount at the minimum, run it flat a few times and it’s in the bin 😞
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    The way I work is as soon as I buy anything that has a battery, I just replace it so I know what I have. Every once in a while I do a load test with a digital tester, IF the battery has lost capacity by a reasonable CCA amount, then it’s gone. My newly acquired J-230 will be flying to me next week, so I will have the ferry pilot take a new battery with him, to fit and fly it home.
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    Bruce, have you asked around SAAA? What area?
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    Probably difficult, as I am about to find out with an Instructor even. It has been done in the days before YouTube with simple aircraft but no one would admit to it 🙂
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    “Learn To Fly” series on YouTube? Is his friend 🙂 🙂
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    Skins

    jackc replied to propfarmer's topic in Thruster

    Alan of Wingtech retired October last year and sold off all his factory machinery and managed to use up the last of his sail materials inventory. I was fortunate to get the last full set he made, cost me $3970 delivered to Rockhampton. He also included repair swatches of material for me. I have heard nothing since of anyone advertising Thruster skins since.
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    I moved my Aeropup Gympie to Rockhampton, used my 3.5t car trailer with tyres at 15PSI, and breezed along at 80-90kmh. Kept an eye on the hinge point of the wings and had no damage problems. It hung over the back of the trailer a little, was passed by a few HWP Cars but not pulled over, they were probably happy I was driving steadily……
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    Sorry, a product misspelling on my part, been using this stuff on Ham Radio antennas for years….
  12. jackc
    Aluminox (sp) is your friend 🙂
  13. jackc
    Glen, when will it be available?
  14. jackc
    The Microair 760 was never a great radio and as far as I know there have be no design changes either, the business has changed hands but products are still the same. I am pedantic about radios and have simply decided to replace mine, then I know I am good to go, reliably.
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    Thanks mucho Ian for the fix……will test it 🙂
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    Go find an antenna analyser, NOT a SWR meter and sweep the Aviation Band and see where it is best resonant, hopefully on you rmost used frequencies. One of my first jobs when I get the Super Bin Chicken home, along with a NEW Becker radio, the MicroAir 760 will be replaced ASAP.
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    I hope the pilot recovers OK, but suspect it will be a long road for him….. Fire is one of my greatest fears……
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    Rotaxaru

    jackc replied to RFguy's topic in Engines and Props

    Sorry for dumb question but, what happens to 24 rego for your conversion?
  19. jackc
    Today I bought the ‘Super Bin Chicken’ 🙂
  20. jackc
    I am about to order an electronic unit for carbon monoxide detection, I think Clear Prop on this site has them?
  21. jackc
    I will get stickers done “Super Bin Chicken” for each side of engine cowl and possibly a Bin Chicken itself with big wings for fuselage 🙂
  22. jackc
    Subject says it all…..I need all the luck I can get 🙂. Road trip to look at, with intention to purchase a Super Bin Chicken J-230 Jabiru with 1400 hours TT on it as another addition to my ‘bird cage’ 🙂 It allegedly comes with good credentials etc. Crossing fingers for success!
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    Rotaxaru

    jackc replied to RFguy's topic in Engines and Props

    Some time ago I was looking at this for my Rotax 80hp in the Aeropup. https://infinityaerospace.com/product/other/pre-oiler-and-back-up-engine-oil-pump/
  24. jackc
    You can know all the regulations in the World, IF pilots don’t use the radios properly as is mandatory……then it just makes more pressure on other pilots. I have a big deal about radios, all my life starting in my Military days, and 30 years in the business as well. On top of that I have no desire to fly in/out of busy airports, will stick with bush ALAs and remote places, where possible. Upgrade my radio comms to the best I can have, use ADS-B ECD and fly carefully with my own risk assessments, maybe not totally to the regulations. Anyone for some full moon midnight VFR 🙂
  25. jackc
    Some might say screw you, I have MORE engines and bigger wings than you 🙂
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