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  1. danny_galaga
    Absolutely agree with you here. Case in point, my old air-cooled VW. Even though I was running it on unleaded, it would still build up some sludge, and that's because I was using plain oil, no detergents. Which is best for an engine with no filter. The sludge helps trap particles. 😇
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    One good thing about the Rotax 912 is that because it's a dry sump, you hand rotate the prop to 'burp' it. Crankcase pressure pushes what little oil there is in the case and return line into the oil tank. The upshot of this is every time you check the oil, you've prelubed and pressurised the oil somewhat. Just from hand spinning half a dozen times the oil pressure gauge shows pressure. Dry sump is a pain in the arse when it comes to oil changes, but I like the fact you've ipso facto prelubed it each morning 🙂
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    The problem with Google is it freezes past prices in time. What is the CURRENT cheapest price you've found for the Rotax filter, from a supplier you can trust? Funnily enough, I bought one earlier this year and can't remember who I bought it off and how much 😄
  4. danny_galaga
    912 has a gearbox magnet, you would have noticed that does in fact pick up ferrous particles. There's this small upstart called 'aircraft spruce' you could take a gamble on for your Rotax oil filter.
  5. danny_galaga
    This is where you reduce your odds, and buy a Rotax filter from a reputable aircraft parts supplier, and not from Hellokitty99 on eBay with a 96% rating.
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    Damn, exactly as I described, except the back alley is in Pakistan!
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    There are a number of important features in a device like an oil filter that can be comparable to the USB chargers. That is to say, you can make them LOOK legit, when they are not. One of the most important of those is how the can is crimped onto the base. It could be done by a modern high spec machine, or a busted arsed 70 year old Soviet piece of shit in a back alley in Vietnam and they could LOOK the same to you and me. Im not a LAME or industrial engineer so I'll be paying that extra $20 ro-tax each year.
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    You KNOW that we agree on the rip off nature of Rotax parts that are made elsewhere. But this is one of those cases where I would rather pay a little more to have Rotax written on the part, which imparts a guarantee that they deem it safe for use. Unless I can explicitly determine that some other brand is the exact same thing, and not just LOOKS the same, I'm happy paying an extra $20 a year or so. Unrelated to Rotax, but I've posted this article before on the perils of assuming something is exactly the same just because it looks the same, or the makers CLAIM it's the same: https://www.righto.com/2012/10/a-dozen-usb-chargers-in-lab-apple-is.html
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    If $36 is expensive to you, you may be in the wrong hobby 😇
  10. danny_galaga
    Rotax filters are cheap. Just get that.
  11. danny_galaga
    What a stupid headline. Hydrogen is not water. The plane isn't carrying water on board and converting it. It's carrying hydrogen. That headline is just to make you click it, because of that stupid urban legend of the guy who invented a water powered car, but 'they' paid him out. Still has pull decades later. The other problem is making hydrogen. It takes a lot of energy. Best to just use bio diesel if you want 'green fuel'.
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    Still, when you watch the video and see how they were kinda meshed together, it's a wonder at least one of the pilots didn't just hit the other plane. Some things you just can't train for.
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    That sums up the whole of human history
  14. danny_galaga
    The pilot doing the check flight was one of my instructors, Shane Whitbread. I only learnt about it years later as I had moved from Darwin five years previously. I read that after that accident, that procedure became a simulator test only. From what you guys are saying, it should never have been a test procedure in the first place.
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    Good heads up, but this is not a few minutes extra work. When I finished building my plane, I turned to page 1 of the manual and then went through every page of it. I checked every single bolt, nut split pin etc that I had placed, page by page. After each page, I dated it so that there could be no doubt in my mind that I had checked it. It actually took me weeks to do this. In the end, I found one split pin that hadn't been bent, on an aileron. I always bend them a tad, just enough for it to stay in place, if it's a part that needs adjusting. So on a first flight I'm confident it probably would have stayed, but clearly I screwed up. I was both happy there was only one thing I left unfinished, but dismayed I left ANYTHING unfinished. So yes, it only took a minute to rectify the problem. But it took weeks to find.
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    One pleasing aspect when my plane was finally inspected by the lame is that he found very few things I had to revisit. He told me he's seen more problems with some factory built aircraft. I was quite chuffed about that 😊
  17. danny_galaga
    Look at you with your fancy cabin heat!
  18. danny_galaga
    Looks like the LA plane was actually on (a very long) final. He might have been able to divert to the road parallel to the runway (I'll allow that!) but he might have still hit wires.
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    Bloody hell, that's more than recovering a plane 😲
  20. danny_galaga
    Christ on a stick! Looks like they need to build a few airstrips in the middle of LA too 😄. A few because LA is freakin HUGE.
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    And before you disconnected it? It does like there's a wiring issue somewhere as others have said.
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    Sometimes I wonder if you are a Turing test. I'm on the verge of thinking you are a computer 😄 On serious note, Darwin as you know, basically grew AROUND the airport. That is some pretty desirable land.
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    For sure. Just seems like there are ONLY public roads for people to land on in a country about the size of Australia. Hence I think they should just build airstrips in the middle of every town and city there 😄
  24. danny_galaga
    Yet another landing on a road, with just the gods preventing injury and death to people on the ground
  25. danny_galaga
    If you've disconnected one lead of the capacitor, you've disconnected the capacitor. It's mostly there for your radio. How does your radio sound now?
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