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  1. Kyle Communications
    Thats the rate but you dont get that rate when looking at the news or XE.com, you can never get that rate. I use a Forex company to get the best rate but a bank transfer you lose 1 or 2% sometimes even more. The worst of course is paypal. Good Forex companines are about .3 to .8% on transfers. No VAT on outgoing but of course GST here on the cost of goods PLUS the cost of freight
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    Yes about 3500 and 4500 euro from memory for the 2 or 3 blade props. Usually double the euro and that will be roughly the sell price
  3. Kyle Communications
    Just some info for the RV crowd and others of course but I have had several RV guys now chase me for these new props ..Seems there are a lot of RV guys who want to change props Looks like GA can have a foot in the door now Eprop have released their Ascalon range of props for 100 to 270hp direct drive engines like Lycoming and Continental You may have seen the chicken throwing incident video 🙂 They will be coming in 2 and 3 blade configs and currently 74 and 76 inch diameters but other diameters will be coming soon. Speaking to them tonight I also got a update on the jabiru props. Looks like they will have 2 and 3 blade props available for the 4 and 6 cyclinder engines.They are going through their last testing and should then be making the production molds so some hope on the horizon for a better solution for the Jab engines
  4. Kyle Communications
    Yes still making them when I get a chance. I make them in smallish batches. I have none in stock at the moment will be a few weeks.
  5. Kyle Communications
    That was the prop I had bought for my S21. He managed to break his original Eprop dropping the noseleg into a deep wet hole one day. He has more hp so apparently he still had enough ground clearance to fit my larger prop as it was the only prop I had here. Its a 190cm because my engine will be close to 120hp. Although Eprop now are recommending going to a 4 blade if your 115hp or more rather than using a bigger 3 blade
  6. Kyle Communications
    Mike you been looking at Tony's aircraft..he did it himself. Seems to be going well. Did you head up Townsville way or was he down your way
  7. Kyle Communications
    Looks like the russians are trying their hand at copying the Rotax now NAIS‑2026: UDC Unveils M105 Piston Engine for Light Aircraft – RuAviation RUAVIA.SU Against this backdrop, United Engine Corporation (UDC) unveiled the new M105 piston engine at NAIS‑2026. The public demonstration signals the transition from
  8. Kyle Communications
    I gather you didnt get the gist of my comment. I didnt want to spell it out and start a flame war of woke BS or animal right activists. Here we would have used a defrosted chook I would think...but in Europe you have to be seen to be kosher You cant say anything directly anymore because someone will be offended and thats almost a capital crime now days
  9. Kyle Communications
    no animals were hurt in the filming of this episode :)..they are in Europe remember
  10. Kyle Communications
    Eprop have been working on 2 blade props for not only the jab engines but much larger usual aircraft engines. This has been a long process but they are at the pointy end now doing certification testing. They havent released any yet but they are not far away. The 3 blade props are designed for the Rotax engines mainly engines with a gearbox. Direct drive carbon based 2 blade props have always been a slippery issue. Mayny have tried but most have failed in one way or another. Just look at the problem with the Hartzel prop issue on the Titan engines in the USA. Cato have come up with a new development but yet has to prove itself for anything long term. I doubt though they have done this sort of testing.
  11. Kyle Communications
    Most airframes are very safe, the big factor is the donk you use. I could start a flame war by just mentioning one engine name
  12. Kyle Communications
    Trevor Mills was the pilot involved in the accident at Old Station late last year. He also was a good friend. He had a RV8 as well with a suburu engine init initally and I flew in it with him but later he did the turbo conversion. His engine went bang on takeoff and luckily he survived but he walked 2km back to Old Station with 80% burns and broken ribs and back injuries because the fuselage had twisted and he couldnt get the canopy opened quickly enough. He is still in the RBWH and will be for a while yet. He has just had a massive amount of skin grafts. I love building my own aircraft but when it comes to the engines I prefer to stay with tried and tested engines. A lot of auto conversions may be ok but there seems to be far more engine outs in aircraft that have auto engine mods done in them
  13. Kyle Communications
    The pilots name has been released. It was Greg Ackman, He was the owner of Mobile One a antenna manufacturer. I bought a lot of antennas from him over the years and use a aviation one here and at the farm. He was here about 18 months ago dropping off a couple of antennas. I dealt with him since the early 1990's. He was a good guy..didnt take crap from anyone either. We got on very well. Vale Greg Ackman
  14. Kyle Communications
    Nev I have made over 60 sets and they have been sent all over the world. I cant believe things that I make for me end up being so popular I sent 8 sets to Iceland !!!! even my post office had never sent anything to Iceland 🙂
  15. Kyle Communications
    Nothing of course but you know Skippy
  16. Kyle Communications
    Anything that rotates needs to be balanced especially in a high rpm engine. The crank is rotated at speed held in journals and the machine tells you what position and how much to either take off or add on in those spots. Its pretty simple really when you have invested the time and money into the equipment to do the job properly. You balance your car tyres dont you? well why doesnt Rotax balance their flywheels. We have tried more than 10 flywheels and all are not even close to being balanced. The flywheel is just one part of a assembly that when all added together hopefully has a vibrational level that doesnt cause extra wear or pressure on the rest of the components
  17. Kyle Communications
    The engines have been "blueprinted" pistons all weighed and made the same crankshaft balanced conrods weighed and made the same. The whole assembly balanced on a running balancer. I can assure you Turbo I know what I am talking about. Including balancing model jet turbines with my own 100k Schenck balancer I was balancing turbines that ran at 250,000 rpm. I do know just a little bit about balancing...oh and also I used to fix engine balancers for motor builders too.
  18. Kyle Communications
    Agree to disagree You do you and I will do me
  19. Kyle Communications
    2000 hours of operation is not a lot of hours at all Put it into perspective. you drive your car an hour to work and a hour to home so 2 hrs a day 5 days a week. so thats 10 hrs a week. So thats 520hrs a year plus all other private driving which could possibly be that again for holidays and visits and days to the beach etc etc so say 1000 hours a year. According to rotax you need to renegine your car every 2 years A car engine does not do the rpm or have anywhere near the stress on it of course but numbers are numbers. I know of many rotax 912 that are 5000 hrs and have not been overhauled and that can be very true but I also know of quite a few that have gone bang for various reason like camshafts and cam bearings and case fretting etc etc in less than 2000 hours as well Rotax are not perfect but my opinion is they shopuld be much better for the money we pay for them
  20. Kyle Communications
    Do what you want to do Skippy and stop having a whinge about it..you either do it or stop creating internet slop. Arguing about it is a waste of time. Unless of course you want to be king of the opinion brigade. People will do what they want. You have no intention of doing it so why even comment
  21. Kyle Communications
    I can tell you from fact and engine rebuilds that the flywheels are no where near balanced. That was on 2 of my engines and since then we have looked at a lot others and none are balanced. I have the access to the equipment and the expertise to have this done. When you pay 40k or a std 912 and 70k for a 915 and 90k for a 916 then I would be expecting to have at least the flywheel balanced But as I said Rotax base everything on 2000 hr operation...then buy a new one
  22. Kyle Communications
    Ok then the tacho is more stable at idle..there is imperical evidence for you. Depends on where you live. Warm up times can be quite long depending on temperature. Did you also know that no Rotax 912 or even other series have the flywheel balanced. You have a engine that does 5800 rpm in a aircraft and it is not even balanced? Rotax dont do that so why should they improve a crossover pipe..they just need "something" to balance the manifolds. There are lots of things that Rotax could and should improve but they dont.....and do you know why? Because they say after 2000 hrs you throw it away and buy another one. Thats why they dont improve anything
  23. Kyle Communications
    The idle sounds and feels better...cant quantify it any better than that.
  24. Kyle Communications
    I dont know why there is so much text on this matter. You set the mechanical side of the carbs up with idle stops etc then just do the carb balance with either gauges or a carbmate. Problem done. Except of course that the pneumatic balance will shift over time and thats because most rotax installs...that use carbs use the stupid bowden cables that can change their length then your balance goes out. The larger balance tube does give a better idle performance once everything is setup correctly. I have tested this and 3 or 4 of us locals have it done and yes it makes a difference. But you still have to do a carb balance with the vacuum and check the bowden cables..There are other things you can do to make it easier but thats another story
  25. Kyle Communications
    Well there are lots of claims that seem too good to be true...maybe this is just another one.....as usual time will tell
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