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  1. Moneybox
    Response from Evektor. Dear Phil, Please contact our dealer Mr. Steve Cesco ([email protected]] for Your order. You need following items: 766395 Vernier Throttle Control, 1pc 076810 Grommet, 2pcs Now I just need to know what these parts are before I go ahead.
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    Unless you get a sudden low like a cyclone where the reduced pressure outside allows the higher internal pressure to blow the building apart.
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    I like this idea. I've been looking into building that big tilt door and whatever I use is going to weigh over 400kg for a 12m x 3m door. Last year I built a shelter for Mrs M's Mercedes Vito. It's made from light gauge steel RHS tubing and covered in 90% shade cloth, cheap, fast and secure. I first bought a heap of tex screws and washers to secure the shade cloth before finding Wiggle wire. This bundle consists of a 'C' section aluminum channel that you fasten down with a few tex screws and a spring wire that you wiggle into place over the cloth. It not only secures the cloth but tensions it as well. I laid a whole 7m x 8m roof in a day and it's still looking good. Fastened to a frame it could make a large light weight door.
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    I've emailed Evektor to see if they'll allow the modification.
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    I don't know if they come apart but the bit that I want to replace is the knob control. To move my throttle knob in or out the button has to be pressed to release the lock or it can be rotated for fine adjustment, not what you need for a fast response in an emergency.
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    Yes that may be true however if you check the small print, they will, questions like “is the vehicle modified?” “Are there any accessories?” etc. Even if you answered this honestly when first insured did you update your insurance when you had the suspension lift of fitted the roof rack? items like this can be said to have a detrimental affect on the stability of the vehicle. Then where do you stand when you make a claim? These businesses are not here to protect you, they are looking at their bottom line and what they can do to protect their financial interests. I had the inside of the Hyundai fitted out as a camper. Part of that was the installation of two LiFePo4 batteries that blew up destroying the vehicle. What chance would I have with an insurance claim? It wasn’t worth finding out just as it wasn’t worth paying the insurance.
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    Yes I’m quite well aware of that. Insurance is something I don’t have much to do with. We’re conditioned through fear that we need insurance, home and contents insurance, car insurance, personal liability insurance, life insurance, aircraft insurance, public liability insurance, flood insurance, income protection insurance, health insurance, landlord insurance, personal disability insurance and the list goes on. If you have been conned into all these insurance policies and the worst happens, have you ever tried to make a claim? Sometimes they may pay but they are careful not to overlap those payments even though they’ll happily sell you policies with overlapping cover. In most cases Insurance is just a well designed business operating on poor ethics and our fear of the unknown, the what-iffs in life. We’re all sucked in feeding the big machine. I avoid it wherever I can.
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    Wow, this is a really lively thread. 🤣 I don't like my Sportstar/Rotax Vernier throttle that locks into position. I've trained in a few planes all fitted with a simple push-pull cable with friction adjustment. I like being able to just shove it quickly to full throttle or back without thinking of pressing the release button. I've seen these Vernier cables that look to be a better option. It still has the fine adjustment but can be quickly pushed or pulled without having to release it first. Any comments, for or against?
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    While driving around Perth I've been thinking of this door. I decided the best option might be like shown in the video KRviator put up but constructed from freezer panel. I think it might even come in full length 12m sheets. It'd be light weight and rigid, well insulated and easily installed.
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    Please excuse my crude drawing, I can't photograph it because I'm in Perth but this is the direction he laid the iron sheeting.
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    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...
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    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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