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    She did extremely well.
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    "'Ere, what's Mabel wearing, Stan?" "I can't quite tell, Ed, but it sure needs ironing!"
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    Very nice. Lot of time and money went into that.
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    I'm a dad, I reserve the right to tell Dad jokes!
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    You canard-ly expect that not to be a problem.
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    The bloke who did the first inspection of my 701 advised me to get a spray inhibitor - think it was Cor-Ban - and said it misted so well that even giving a few blasts into the wings through the root lightening holes would give a good coating. Unfortunately I bought the wrong one by mistake - ended up with avionics corrosion inhibitor which doesn't mist well at all. In any case something like that or ACF-50 which seems to be heavily advertised when you search "Aircraft Anti Corrosion spray" could be an option. If you're rolling the black stuff neatly then maybe you could tape over it after it's dry and spray the rest of the part with either etch primer or a corrosion inhibitor.
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    Very rare that 0.016" is riveted to another 0.016". Mostly to 0.025", 0.032" or thicker.
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    Isopropanol is another name for Isopropyl Alcohol. Usually available in small spray bottles for cleaning small parts, but you can get it in 5L containers. Not sure how much postage would be so it'd be a bonus to have a local supplier.
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    Probably not uncommon. Work colleague has just come back from Canada a couple of weeks ago. He and his wife had a float plane tour from a town there (not Vancouver, although they did visit there too). He had a video of the landing from inside the plane (DH Otter) - just before touchdown the picture jolted as the pilot swerved to avoid a boat headed straight across the landing point. Couple of seconds later you see the boat scooting across the side window having done a tight turn to avoid the plane, then the plane touched down on the wake and bounced a bit. That scared him enough - I'll send him this video too, saying hey - it could have been worse!
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    Hi Christin, Have a read through Mark Kyle's thread below, I think around page 6 he talks about alodine. He mentioned an acid bath to prepare the pieces so maybe that helps remove stickers. You could always make tags with zip ties to reattach part numbers after alodining, or scribble them on the part itself with a marker.
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    That's where I ended up. The choices are endless - some people like full alodyning (or whatever the modern equivalent is - I think Mark did this with his new parts). Then there's priming, the black stuff (which probably has a name) and if you're building and flying in a desert, probably nothing at all. I believe 6061-T6 has some anti-corrosive properties anyway. So I decided to just use etch primer on the joining edges of both pieces, and where riveting. This will NOT be the right approach for everyone so don't take it as advice on what to do.
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    Yep that's correct. I've changed mine from the bungee suspension to the rubber "hockey puck" type - hopefully it works ok.
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    Interesting, same basic setup as the Zenith CH701, but there's no bearing in the Zenith.
  14. Marty_d
    Sounds like Angel Flight should have been a bit more careful about who they got in bed with.
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    Bréguet 460 Vultur

    Marty_d commented on red750's aircraft in Warbirds

    No, but a built-in headwind is never a good idea
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    Bréguet 460 Vultur

    Marty_d commented on red750's aircraft in Warbirds

    I didn't say it didn't fly, I said it was a horrible design made by the glazier's association...
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    Bréguet 460 Vultur

    Marty_d commented on red750's aircraft in Warbirds

    Quelle horrible conception ! Fabriqué par l'association des vitriers.
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    Too bloody dangerous too. More people die playing lawn bowls than any other sport...
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    It looks so classic in taildragger configuration Don - why would you mess with that? 🙂
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    I certainly pucker every time I see how close he came to the building.
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    They didn't tell me to orbit at all. They told me to continue on final (I was the C172) and they told the B737 to do one orbit.
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    Different airports. YCBG (Cambridge) is for lighter aircraft and only about 1km away from YMHB (Hobart International). I was on approach to 27 at YCBG, the B737 on approach to 12 at YMHB.
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    Yep - it was the tower who told me to continue on final and them to orbit - I would have been happy to burn a couple of holes in the sky until they'd landed, but I wasn't about to argue with the tower.
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    It's funny when the bigjobs have to give way. I remember approaching YCBG from the east once, which means tracking to the north of YMHB and across the approach to their runway (12/30). ATC gave me right of way so the B737 on approach had to do an orbit while a little C172 with 1 person on board was on final - often wondered how much that cost the airline!
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    Well, in the end they went in quite nicely. I gave them an hour in the freezer, used a bit of WD40 and pulled them through with an M8 x 1.25 bolt. No problem. Thanks for your advice guys!
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