Cozy Girrrl

Our condolances to Dave and Mike.

Had to go check our drawing, ours are 4130

Very sad, I had briefly seen her the last time they showed the Berkut at Osh and later talked to her on the phone about parts, it somehow makes it more personal when you have that thin thread of a once upon a time connection, a face, a voice, inflections, impressions of a personality. I did not know her yet feel a loss still. Seems we lose two or three a year and we can only console our loss by reminding ourselves they were out there doing what they loved the most. Godspeed Vickie, see you in the Summerland.

Nearest thing out there may be on Vance Atkinson's Cozy III, "sorta like" our extensions. No change to flight characteristics at all (its in the dirty air coming off the canard wing roots) maximum comfort appeal.

So, how bad do you want it? =)

I quote from our Clickbonds cartoon: "Put vinyl electrical tape on the threads..." (Randi is too cheap to let me use shrink tube) Avoid getting the metal any warmer than needed to shrink the tube quickly. If they are going to be hanging out there for awhile like the ones on your firewall, push a block of foam on them or something to avoid impacting them as you move other stuff around.

Its easy to attach things safely to any part of your spar with Click Bonds. ...Chrissi

Because I can appear to be nice while force feeding peanut butter whereas duct tape makes a tell-tale noise when you rip it off the roll, you might catch the fist one unawares but the rest of them can run faster (than I can) and there is that screaming thing they do.

Its the restaurant/baitshop that concerns me... one of my favorite coastal towns had on the corner a baitshop on one face and immediatly around the corner a sushi bar... now come one folks, there's more to making sushi than putting bait on a dab of rice!

You guys are just figuring this stuff out?

I'd fill my epoxy shoes with Ragu and eat them cold before eating at "The Worlds Best Joint" ...and those kids doing kareoke, take a jumbo sized jar of peanut butter and as soon as one opens their shrill little gob, shove a handful of peanut butter in there, that place is a nightmare!

Basically you need a new mount, nothing in common between the two other than the paint, sorry

I had this discussion with JD a couple of years ago, he said he had the spec from Michelin and that the current tires are at the max. Waiter, the gear is supposed to move forward when it is pressurized. That is our largest concern. I worry about a dirty tire coming up and eventually abrading through the wheel wells

We agree the wheel wells are too tight for the Michelins and we will probably go find a smaller tire before we bother to cycle ours. ...C&R

Now, THAT is funny, but you may have to explain it to a few folks who are slow on the uptake

Yah Geraldo, you know what you can do with your blunt ended electric Ditz Scissors too! Skipping Osh once again I suppose? ...Chrissi

NTSB-"Pilot stopped flying the plane when diesel train horn evacuated his bowels..."

Thanks Craig,I was not trying to be ignorant about it, just that every time someone mentions LoVac it degenerates into ------- matches on the merits of Vacuum Bagging, something we know little about nor have any personal interest in. It seriously muddies up the thread like mentioning retracts -anywhere- I can predict how that will go and who all will weigh in on both sides, its tiresome and always comes off like a racial/ethnic/or political argument, people entrench in their camps, nobody gives an inch, nobody learns a thing. Its very much like watching a Civil War renactment. ...and its spelled "Chrissi"

Yeah TMann, I remember my dad had a jacket with a loud weave on it, left over from the 50's I expect Jeez guys, can you take your Vacuum bagging discussion somewhere else please, what does this mess have to do with the LoVac question in the first place. I think from now on the answer will be: "No, it dos not save any weight at all, if it does it is purely by accident and poor quality control, if you want light weight, go look under headings for Vacuum Bagging I am sure there are plenty of experts over there to weigh in"

What was that stuff for anyway; can you grease wheel bearings with it or was it originally used for preserving military jeeps? I heard a yachty friend say he uses it to grease the ball valve in his marine toilet ...Chrissi

Bruce, we'll be there. Are you making the trek all the way from down there?

Lets just say Randi is frugal, so she'd not be an advocate of this if it were not LoCost

Back to the beginning bluntly, if you want low weight, go search and study vacuum bagging, we know nothing about it, if you want highly conformal parts where conformal of layups to parts may be dificult, then LoVac -may- be helpful provided you use the same techniques, materials and tools. It is not for use everywhere, it will not work properly with other epoxies, materials or pumps. Thats our experience, there are others with similar results as well, there are those who have had difficulty reproducing our results though this is rare, there ore those who have used other pumps and they have all failed to do this successfully following the LoVac instructions. Hope that helps a little bit? Now all the experts can weigh in again about vacuum bagging... ...Chrissi

The words out of a hot rodding friend "If it don't go, chrome it"...Chrissi

Okay, this does not make sense to me. It would be another thing if you tried this by taping a bag to one side of a structure and were sucking air through it but in a bag it wil all be at the same pressure (eventually) everywhere inside the bag. You could hypothisize that you are sucking trapped air within the foam through the epoxy/glass matrix but the LoVac concept voids this on to levels, first not enough suction in the first place, second as soon as the slowly saturating paper towels get wet, since it also acts as the bleeder layer it shuts off that area, no more vacuum, no more migration....C&R