spacesailor

The Sydney ferries-cat,s were powered by two stroke diesel motors.

They seem reasonably efficient,  l have seen the ' black ' diesel smoke when pushing the throttle too far, making the engine struggle for air.

Something diesel drivers have to learn. Heavy foot doesn't excellerate any faster than a light foot.

spacesailor

All LawyerSpeak, Lots of words, but no sence !.

spacesailor

Does your glider have the motor ?.

As those ex military ASK21 powered glider.

spacesailoe

That,s a huge problem for any buyer.

How can any company expect a reasonable return, with conditions like they have.

A pity the seller won,t help either.

There seems to be more aircraft in the background, than in the auction.

spacesailor

Top bid at the moment is about 1/2 a $million.

But, some are less th a 1/4 $ million.

The poweredsIlplanes are $ 35,000, and look i  good condition.

spacesailor

Jabs magnetic trick should stick !.

BUT

The compass is much closer  on a HumelBird, I,m saying 5 or 6 inches. After all the length is 14' ( feet ).

I guess  l,ll have to keep screwing away with thoe two 3/32 bolts. 

It,s just the thought of dropping one  ( or both  ) in the airfield grass !, never to be found again.

spacesailor

As the '  fuelcap cover is 0.8mm & the base is the same !. ( just went out & measured it  ).

Then 2 mm thickness of material, is a bit small. The reason, l asked for a couple of the smallest, will give me an idea how Big the smallest is.

There are bigger RC models than the HummelBird,  And with bigger engines.

spacesailor

Motor oil  15- 40. Syn. ( we are told  ), IS thinner when cold and gets thicker when hot.

BUT

Even my old VW, recommends straight 30 grade.

Thick wnen cold, getting thinner when it needs that thicker oil at high loads & tempreture.

So, how about an ' oil heater ', at startup.  Like we used in those Cold European winters, that saved many from a cracked block !.

spaceailor

Blueadventures, 

I checked them out !,  ( camlocs )

But

The same thing aplies.  Even in their literature it says ( can,t find that site now, so as l remember it )

" we don,t use size but serial numbers ".

So to fasten a ten-thou" inspection door closed l use a couple of nuts & bolts.  And some are in French ! The rest American.

spacesailor

Any chance someone would have two complete Dzus fasteners of the ' smallest size '  out there, to join two thin alloy parts. ( not structural ).

I,m using two 3/32" nuts & bolts at the moment.

The sizes have me bamboozled

spacesailor

Starts between fill !.

I, like lots of other car owner,s have Not refueled my Pajero for getting on to a year now. Running a second ( diesel  ) car.

The Old  95 octane fuel must be due for a change soon.

Here,s hoping it Will start when that day eventually arrives, then off for holidays AND breakdowns.

I,m going out to check the logbook.

I,m back, the last fill was' 15 / 2 / 21 at Orange.  Price was $ 131.9 cpl.

spacesailor

In their discription, there is the words after the prop hours, " unserviable " , whether it,s the prop only or the aircraft hard to tell !.

Two are up to $ 499.500. 

spacesailor

Those Roulette aircraft are now being bid on, with bids ranging from $ 25 to $100,000. 

The sailplanes are around $35,000.

spacesailor

Iv,e used lots of SYB.

Everything from Peter single cylinder diesels to my half VW two pot motor.

Much beter than handcranking forever, trying to get the fuel or the spark to work.

Used a whole can getting a Ruston diesel motor to run Unassisted, huge thing, with the biggest cranking handle imaginable.

So I.m sold on it.

The old way of getting those old motors going was a bunch of petrol soaked rags, held infront of the induction pipe.

Anyone think they would enjoy holding flaming rags, without letting them get sucked down to the piston ,.

spacesailor

Sounds like you need !.

WEEDS.

Fast growing & very hardy.  LoL

spacesailor

There Was one in Toongabbie, belonging to ' Transavia aviation '.

I wonder where as the area has a large powner line grid, with a substation on Powers road.

Nowdays Trans avia, comes as a European airline company, !, and nill maps of that  seven hills erea.

spacesailor

skippy

Were do you obtain the curlycord, ( plug to headset ).

The outer sheath disintegrated on my Unused set.

spacesailor

Lots of " ultralites "  have Weight issues  & don,t carry a battery.

Simple liteweight aircraft, one step  up from a " nanolite ". 

spacesailor

And ' plural '.

Spacesailor

My old PC Is infected with 'ransom ware '.

Had two Antivirus,  standard Microsoft on win10, plus either ' AVG ' OR ' AVAST ',

Changed the ' C ' drive to ' X '.

Then no hard drive available, as bios is lookin for that ' C ' drive.

Back in it,s box & Stacked away.

spacesailor

Bruce.

It,s called a ' scimitar ' and the more preasure it receives makes it lower the standard pitch, when getting to cruise speed it moves to a corser pitch.

Tried my wooden home chopped scimitar & notice it had a higher rpm than the standard straight prop, even with an extra One degree pitch increase. 

(  same Dia ).

spacesailor

My bladder ( tank ) holds less the 4o litres. LoL

spacsailor

Even when you have found that ideal instructor! ,to suit your own mentally. 

You still have to front the senior instructor for your final exam.

spacesailor

IF we havn,t got a 103 type  !,

HOW IS, that ' nano ' kite flying ?, No rego & HE said, " no licence ", 

No registration means Raa can,t ' find ' him,

YES, first hand account.

spacesailor

Fabric covering,  does it use a " dope " to shrink the fabric. . ( like model airplanes Used to be )

Or is that old school, with the new fabric just pulled tight.

spacesailor