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The Fein blades do not fit but we have designed a simple adapter. The Rockwell rotates about twice the degreess of the Fein so operating flat out they may be equal. ...C&R

Welllllllll..... Scott Wick sent us a new Rockwell Sonicrafter to evaluate (1/2 the price of the Fein), we are still evaluating it Here's our first and only gripe so far; the Sonicrafter does not have a recessed saw blade like the Fein. To us this is the deal breaker as it is the blade we use exclusively. No, they are not interchangable between tools either. -BUT- We have figured out a design for a simple adapter to allow Fein blades to work on the Sonicrafter. The price of the blades... I belive the price you quoted was for a pair, they come in a 2 pack. Call Wicks and ask for the price of a single one, we asked them to break them up into individual blades and sell them. We are also checking out the Harbor freight FeinClone. Some HF things with motors in them do not last too long. But at $40 you can burn out quite a few of them before you get up to the cost of a Genuine Fein, and the Fein recessed blades will fit the HF El Cheapo Grande clone. As far as the scissors go, so far only the Dritz or the new version under another name will last, the B&D and other knock offs do not have carbide inserts in the blades so they do not last. Not the place to save money. If you are coming to SNF we may have both the Fein and Sonicrafter there for you to look at...maybe. Come find us in the Engines tent. ..Chrissi & Randi

PROVIDED: -the W&B is correct -the incidence of the canard is correct -the incidence of the main wing is correct -the elevators are in trail at cruise in S&L flight I would strongly suggest you take a close look at the setting of the ailerons, are they both in trail at neutral or in your case are they both slightly up? And by slightly up I do mean you will need to have someone lifting the other one while you lift one of them (to take out any slop). If they both are above trail this may have an influence on your stick forces and you can begin to add a 1/2 turn each side until they are both in trail. Some believe having them reflexed up slightly may improve their top speed but it can cost you in terms of trim and personal fatigue, not to mention reserve down elevator and safety. Given everything else is rigged right you can sometimes neutralize some of your stick force with careful trim of your ailerons, both up or down WITHIN REASON. ...Chrissi

You have no idea how spoiled you are going to be; Steve's parts are awesome. ...Chrissi & Randi

We'll see you there, look for us in the "Engines" tent. Regards, Chrissi & Randi

http://www.canardcommunity.com/ It's broken?

Thats not entirely correct Edge, Buly even comes to the Rotary Roundup, he changed engines due to concerns over the electronic controls, he loved the performance of the engine and misses the power (Mind you he replaced it with a 200 HP XP-360) and incredible smoothness of his rotary. He does love the peace of mind his simple 4 cyl gives him. ...Chrissi

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OMG Chris! BLASPHEMY! you dare question the veracity of the Pope???

-Twin rotor -Side port intake & exhaust -Aluminum rotor housing and side plates -Liquid cooled -Uses as many oem Mazda parts as possible (oil pan, water pump, oil pump, etc.) -Custom rear plate for dynafocal or conical mounts -Custom front plate to fit starter ...its called a Mistral and it missed the mark, its overpriced.

sure did =) in that case maybe you should put in a bigger battery and leave it turned on, I'm sure a trip to the burn ward will scar them enough to ensure they never forget. But really, if you forget the darn thing you will probably know from your odd airspeed indication or hopefully you will notice before it vibrates out and then you have a draft coming in the hole, so you are telling me that if you have gone to all this trouble to make a fussy retractable pitot that two wires, a MSW, and an LED are that much trouble? Well if you are so sure of yourself I guess there is no need for an indicator for your gear either, right? I mean you never ever forget it and always know what position its in, right? Then there's those who are petrified one of their warning lights may not work and add the warning light test circuit Where does it end? ...Chrissi

Well done, you might add a micro switch to indicate that you are not retracted or unlocked before takeoff. Nice work. ...Chrissi

Home Safe Hi all. We drove straight home on Sunday, about 15 hours. We want to thank everybody who helped, participated or had good intentions to try to meet up with us and the rest of the group. We had a great time and a very good trip. We now have a nice big heat treating furnace in the back of our minivan that we will figure out how to remove it this next weekend... oof, about 400 lbs... Thanks Steve Robbins! Steve's got a Mk-IV tub and its looking mighty fine. Richard Sessions went all out to put people together and help us out. Chris Barber was well on his way to recovery after his strake problems. We also got to see Frank Caldeiro and his LE, and Mark Ewart's Mk-IV project. Great bunch of guys down in Houston; Thanks Y'all! See our tour of NASA aircraft www.CozyGirrrl.com

If its the metal parts you are looking for then goto www.CozyGirrrl.com ...Chrissi

Chris, try not to consume all the Longneck Rednecks OK? We'll be in Houston noonish on Friday. Unless we are able to make some tour arrangements we'll go get the furnace loaded then start meeting up with everyone as best we can. Regards, Chrissi

Yeah, bash the Velocity for the minivan title, and not a shabby minivan at that. Its more like the Long is a go-kart... you wear it, the cozy is a sports car, you can almost get in it, the Velocity is somethng you know you can get your mother to sit in without compromising herself ...Chrissi

Whaaaaat... you never seen racing jigs??? ...Chrissi

Hi Praveen, welcome, we were all rookies at one point, Randi and I still are. I think I know who it was at the airshow, will have to search my emails but there's a guy over there who is I think a military pilot and his son have one. I also noticed him as a member of another list. ...Chrissi

Well thats looking really cool, hey Steve we're so proud of you, you've found the light switch! ...Chrissi

Its a serious blade, avoid overheating it and it will last for a long long time. Works great on household copper plumbing, not enough room to swing a mini tube cutter? Fien tool goes through like a hot knife. Oak flooring? go for it. Trim ends of spar cap?... oh yeah. Just don't put a brand new blade up to your face to demo how it won't cut soft tissue, I forgot about burrs. ...Chrissi

Its nice to see somebody doing it right, very nice!...Chrissi

I worry about the "foam filled" spaces in the support boxes. This type of foam often keeps expanding, especially on hot days. This may slightly distort your molds or cause "oil canning" or bulging of the surfaces between the bulkheads. Very awesome looking plug. ...Chrissi

Many reasons, first and formost there are really good people like Dennis Olemann already making really good parts at reasonable prices, he is also a customer of ours for the metal parts involved. Why compete with that?Second, I am allergic to the epoxy now. Third, its too much work for little return. Forth, its a huge pain shipping those kind of parts. Fifth, for the molded parts there are no ethics in the molded glass industry; one person with some talent slaves away and comes up with good designs and tooling, everybody else buys a set of parts and pops molds off of them. A close friend during the van craze in the 70's was that Alpha person down in Houston. The dealers would send him the first year model they received, he'd mask it off and come up with all of the original glass, he's the guy that came up with the U-shaped rooftop spoiler etc, almost all other glass on the US market was ripped off from his parts..pop offs. Same for the boat industry, a lot of the same hull and several "new" decks. He died young from chemical exposure so where was the reward? Sorry for the rant. We're in the metal business because its something we can do reasonably well and can automate and then fine tune the processes. All the time spent on design, making tooling and programming can be recovered if we make more than a handfull of parts. That cannot be done for composites (easily)(or without a lot of mess) We also do this so that we can have the best parts available to put in our own plane. Lastly, we do this because of all the businesses and professions we have done in our lives this is more fun, interesting and the customer base is a real nice bunch of people. ...Chrissi & Randi

Chris, yes please show the install pictures (in the appropriate forum heading) ...Chrissi

No, email FlyCozy - at - aol - dot - comtake out the spaces and dashes, yada yada, tell him we sent you. ...Chrissi