BrendAn
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I don't know what to say anymore.
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You stick with what you said. I will go with the professional exhaust manufacturers.My euro trucks have stainless exhausts that have been on there for years. Not cracked or corroded. My LS2 has stainless extractors and a stainless hi performance exhaust system. I know you didn't say popular.
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Not sure why you would say stainless exhausts are not popular on cars. The best performance systems usually are. Popular on trucks too . I think it will the price that makes them less popular.
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When I was an apprentice at Stilwell Ford we used to get xd falcon taxis in with 700,000 km plus still running well. Taxis were a special order back then. They had blueprinted engines and the fact they rarely got cold and ran on gas made them go forever. I guess the exhaust was kept dry as well. No overnight condensation.
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i finished my training in a texan. i really liked it. the instructor was telling me about someone that hired it didn't latch the canopy properly and it blew open in the circuit. if it had come right off he might have lost his tail.
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Getting a bit silly. We are not talking a high speed aircraft here. And the fact that the same doors are .passed by the bmaa in the UK for training , they can't be too bad. The xair I fly needs a door catch like the UK versions then the door can't open if closed properly.
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No . Gullwing doors open upwards. Because it has 2 wing struts any other way would make it too hard to get in and out.
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i was talking about the 172. the hinge is at the front so you are pushing against the airflow. i am not talking about 1930 suicide doors.
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well there you go. i always thought it was up in the mountains. never been there though. peter wilson the raaus instructor there is a great bloke. been training for a long time. thats if he is still doing it. i found the old school experienced instructors far better than some of the kids that rushed their ratings to build hours towards commercial.
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2200 Instruction & Maintenance Manual - jabiru.fr An effective stainless steel exhaust and muffler system is fitted as standard equipment, ensuring very quiet operations, which in the Jabiru aircraft have been measured at 62dB at 1000' full power flyover
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jab exhaust is cracked not rusty so maybe it is stainless under the brown colouring.
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I don't know what the thickness is but it is pretty thin
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no idea nev but tumut would be pretty high altitude. thruster or Methusela would know .
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they are ms but quite thin . they would be saving weight i guess. they need to save every ounce possible. only 430 kg mtow and empty 266 kg
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a 172 door opens forward so the wind keeps it from opening too far. the xair doors are gullwing and will break off at 60 knts thats why i had to hold it closed. pretty flimsy.
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tumut has raaus
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probably because it is 22 years old.
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Jab is back together now.
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no photos today . i did couple of laps around the airstrip and surrounding farms today in the xair. i sold it in april but still have the use of it . haven't flown for 3 months . i had forgotten how much fun the xairs are to fly. but just as i turned final my door blew open so i had one hand holding that shut and the other working the throttle and stick. did one of my best landings funnily enough. nearly crapped myself when the door opened, sudden loud noise and the plane yawed left. good learning experience i suppose. i would hate to imagine what a canopy or door popping open on a fast aircraft would be like.
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The clamp is holding the O2 sensor. that was a joke. the collar the pipe goes into has crack we missed. i put the clamp on to squeeze it up until i take it off to weld .
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He did say they got nothing back from the council. They tried. And every day past the due date the bill goes up 7 percent. I don't plan on going there any time soon so it doesn't bother me.😁
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Sorry. I thought I answered earlier. Didn't go through. The springs I put on are slightly heavier than the ones that were on there. The anchor points must be ok. I haven't heard of a jab exhaust falling off. The clamp is holding the O2 sensor.
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They didn't use the rpt side. They told not too but got charged anyway. The bloke said his bill was $600 for 4 days at horn . Like you say not worth dwelling on. I just thought it was interesting considering this topic.
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I envy you building your own. What a fantastic sense of achievement the day of your first flight. I like tidying up and repairing old planes and boats but I don't have the skills to build the whole thing. My original question was just out of curiosity whether the building project was what got you interested and the flying would come later. I have friends that are serial builders. They fly but prefer building.
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loctite C5-A • Copper based anti-seize lubricant • Used on threaded connections prone to corrosion seizure such as spark plugs, cylinder head bolts and pipe retaining capscrews • Production Manual reference – ‘Copper-max’ or ‘Anti Seize Lubricant’ found it. repco should have it
