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  1. Moneybox
    One of the guys here in Cue has a dome shelter that self destructed as everything plastic does up here. He bought long lengths of Zincalume and ran them longitudinally, end to end, starting at the bottom of the arch working to the top either side. It created a very neat and solid shelter that will surely outlast any fabric. It’s over his drive-through workshop so has no ends. For his hangar he has a couple of 40’ containers with a steel roof between but no door.
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    I really like this door, no tracks to fill with dirt or to get easily damaged. The worst part is I’d have to build it myself and I really don’t want the work.
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    My plane is sitting in Northam out in the weather. There are at least 40 hangars but it seems nobody has space to spare. The shire are going to release more land but it’s a drawn out process. First it must go before council then the Dept of Lands Conservation and Land Management or any other of the similarly named government departments. The land clearing permit can take up to two years. Then I tried the Shire of Wongan Hills and Ballidu just 100km north. The said they have land available but the same Gov Dept delays apply. There are only three hangars but approval to build can also take up to two years. What a painful bunch of useless public public servants we have. Anyway we must plan ahead. I’m interested in other peoples hangar door preferences. I like the bi-fold doors but the cheap nasty sheds being offered cannot support the weight. We looked at a great one last night, it was made in 2m sections and slides sideways around the corner and down the inside of the LH wall. There are lots of designs, some easy and expensive others no so much. I’m interested to know your Hangar Door preferences.
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    Slight mixture adjustment on a two stroke can make huge differences to power output. When racing dirt carts with a 100cc Yamaha we used to reach behind an lean the mixture for an extra boost of power in the straight or overtaking. You couldn't keep it lean when backing off for a corner or it would instantly raise the combustion temperature sufficient to melt the sparkplug. Slightly too rich would noticeably reduce power and slightly too lean would boost it. If that is a truly smart carburettor I can believe it could give significant improvements in performance and fuel consumption.
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    but the barbecue is pretty cool...
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    I've never seen that type of starter. The father-in-law always had a bandaid on one or two fingers.
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    Imagine the liability claims these days. The lawyers would have a field day.
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    I'd love to do the course but it takes me a while to get there and I didn't see it. I think I was away about then not that I'd have got there anyway. I'm too tied up with mining related things right now. Gold is almost on $7000 an ounce so it's all go around here. Mrs M got a bit carried away too. She's decided we need a little more security. This little beauty from the late 19th century weighs in at somewhere over two tonnes. She's always worried that someone might escape with the current one, it only weighs about 700kg. I'd love to fly out and pick it up but when I did the W&B it looks like I might need to reevaluate my transport options.
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    They might not need all those smart people now that AI is making so many decisions. I received an email from our real estate agent in Geraldton stating that we must employ the services of an electrician. I have just asked for the Gyprock ceiling to be replaced in a two bedroom duplex. We have to have an electrician to disconnect the three wires from the ceiling light. A very complex job for any half witted tradesman. We simply don't have well trained people in the workforce any more. Perhaps Foreflight recognised the true value of some of these employees a realised they'd be better off without them.
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    Please keep this sort of behaviour behind closed doors...
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    I never read that book...
  12. Moneybox
    Try to buy the ones with a male thread. Excessive weeping is usually a female trait.
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    You most likely have a bit of sediment in the tank. Try opening them fully a couple of times to hopefully flush it enough to seal the contact area.
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    I've done a lot of prototype work. If you have the manpower and a simple thing like this is holding up progress it may be better to knock up a dummy one. Perhaps an hour or so for a good guy to produce a correctly dimensioned dummy allowing you to continue with other work. A couple of endplates welded to a suitably dimensioned tube and dressed in the lathe for accuracy should do the job.
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    Perhaps you were surrounded by stealthy enemy aircraft but AvTraffic had you flying blind?
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    I thought the same thing when I saw the tube ends welded but on a closer look I realised there are a couple of vertical rubber hoses connecting to the manifold. These would allow for expansion and contraction.
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    If you want a foolproof balance between manifolds use a Slack Tube Manometer. The only thing I did wrong was that I started using green coolant in the tube. It was too light with the balance well out all the fluid went up one tube. Fortunately it had a shutoff preventing the fluid entering the manifold. Once I filled the tube with Mercury it worked perfectly. Disconnect the crossover and attach one tube from the Manometer to the LH manifold and the other tube to the RH manifold. When you have balance the Mercury will be balanced. The next mistake I made was leaving the Mercury in the plastic tube. It's now badly stained. I already had one so I didn't have to buy it but this is a very cheap accurate and long life device.
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    As usual you are right Nev however they later updated to overhead valve. Morris J-Type engines are the robust, utilitarian powerplants, primarily the 1476cc side-valve four-cylinder derived from the Morris Oxford MO, used in the iconic Morris J-Type light commercial vans from 1949, later updated to the 1489cc BMC B-Series overhead-valve engine in the JB model and Austin 101 variant, known for reliability in various service roles like postal delivery.
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    I started my apprenticeship in 1969 working for Bedgood's Bakery at Paddington in Brisbane. At one point the Datson 1200 delivery vehicle overheated and cracked the head. We had an old retired Morris J-type parked in the corner. I looked at the engines and they were so similar I removed the head. All I had to do was grind a little off the bottom of the thermostat housing to clear the Datsun water pump and it fitted right on.
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    On the other hand they were smart enough to simply copy a well proved design just like the Japs did to produce some very successful post war motor vehicles.
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    An interesting scenario, the possibility of running on all four with a broken throttle cable however I think that would be an unlikely failure on a regularly serviced engine. I think you'd need to do a lot of testing before you went to the expense of making casting patterns. I've built plenty but molds but to cast a manifold is expensive. You first have to form the sand core in a mold. Then the core is fitted into the mold and the molten metal fills the cavity in between. Complex and expensive so you need to sell plenty to cover developments costs.
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    I don't have me plane here so I can't check but that thread into the manifold looks to be about 3/8"BSP so with the correct elbow threaded in a larger diameter crossover would be a simple conversion with no modification to the manifold.
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    Looks like a serious overkill. From 8mm to 1"? If there's an advantage in doing that it might be better value to just retap the existing hole on the manifold and go a little larger. Going from 8mm diameter to 15mm is more than triple the size.
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    Does anybody get the feeling we may have veered off from the theme of this thread? Some/many of the comments are getting a little to personal in my opinion. Perhaps it's time to call it quits and agree to disagree,
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    Are you saying crossing the plug wires to clear the carby jets is not a good idea? 😁
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