dust

My dog and baggage won't complain, he will try, but the muzzle, i mean ox mask will muffle it

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dust

Just don't keep the hardener side really full and add as the work of the day progresses

Keep the hardeners in the hot box so that they stay nice and toasty warm

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dust

The plane looks GREAT, the level of modification, in my opinion is large, cutting or moving longeron

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dust

jon said

Create a FAQ, like the one at www.cozybuilders.org

Jon you and i just don't see eye to eye

but on this one i shall take your advice, please send me all of my posts to this forum and then delete them from the forum.

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dust

Please remove my name

life is good, congrats

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dust

813 threads · 6,493 posts With the tools i have at hand, go into each thread, review to bring into memory the only way i can do this is the way i did it before. The way i did it before was very liberal, making sure to not offend and leaning towards liberal picking. I was paring not butchering. Given more tools i can do more, but creating a thread of threads is way more editorial and time consuming than would allow a good job in a reasonable amount of time. BTW, learned quite a little when i was reading the threads i had never read because they were before my time. That alone tought me that the exercize was worthwhile. Also, as the list has grown over the past year and a half, so have i, cmon, a titanium air brake BLASPHEMY. John/jon/mark/nick, give me an easy tool and i will do it. As youuns know i do try to move stuff, especially giving me !@#$ or me giving some one else %$#@ to a place where it can be easily ignored. As far as re shuffling the past, dificult posts would have to be broken up to do it in a meaningful way. Now from here on out, if a mover could be found to keep the threads on point and in the right spot, it really needs to be done.

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dust

John, I have a really good memory, almost total recal. Not perfect but darn darn good, ask those that know me, and i might as well say it , quite a few on this forum do because they have slaved, i mean helped me build my cozies. When i say the offer is about to run out it is because of the following reasons. My recall of threads is almost at the full level and new info is slowly pushing the old info out, i really have a hole in my head and my head is full of rocks too and the rocks move around during the day and "knock" info out of the hole, the hole is small, but a little of what i know or think i know is constantly flowing out. The quantity of threads is growing rapidly and my desire is rapidly shifting away from air frame building to old, expensive, unrealible aircraft engine installation. The offer I made is real and I will do a very, very good job of it. I will not carry that over to the future, youns are more than welcome to do that. If we don't do this we insult many who have contributed here, I was even surprised at the info i found that i had not read from the short period of time that the forum was here before i became involved. This forum was supposed to be a repository of info, not just a chat room. Because as of now that is all that it is, a chat room. Are there tons of tips and tricks in the chapter specific construction area, NO, why, because the plans are that great and there really are not that many "tips and tricks" Are people making modifications to there airplanes, not many, review the thread on modifications that HAVE been made and it is a very very short list. I came here with the express intention of leaving what little information i have, pulling info out of people that come by, and that info would be here. I have a saying in my shop, if you don't know where it is, you don't own it. I am a newby at heart, i haven't changed since the day i started building, just my level of stupid, uneeded ideas has. This can clearly be demonstrated by reviewing the recent item i posted on puting titanium on the air brake. I am here in the name of "dust" so that my intentions are clear, no personal gain ever and in the end, i just get swept away by the new builders and energetic people to take my place. I almost am at the point of needing no additional slaves to build an airframe, don't think many will come for the filling and sanding part of the airframe build. I haver been able to con great work out of the many that have helped us in the guise of training them. The "NEW" wanna be builders are arriving daily and the info in here, if winnowed, can be of great value, as it sits, it is only of value to someone that really like to read ALLOT or someone that likes to ask questions. That leaves the lurkers OUT. There are and have been many lurkers, i know the guests are not guests, but some of them are guests and never join, just decide the plane is too hard and go away, buy plans and start working and a few get up the nerve to ask a question. Sometimes these newby's are rudly pointed to a search engine to find the answer out buy doing laborious searches, not if i am on the board. So, if you want to accept my offer, fine. If not, many who have contributed exelant information deserve an appology, they wrote way more than what was necessary to answer "A" question, they wrote to answer the question for all for a long time. One of the many threads that brings this to the forfront is the one where a real acrobatic canard show pilot was quoted in depth. A great thread that is in the process to falling off of the radar screen, or has it fallen off already. In a year, will anyone know where that thread is and it's valuable information? NO. Many reading this today don't know the thread i am talking about and would with a real solution, not a search engine. Will i just flag MY threads because I wrote them and of course they are all great and should be read. No, I don't play that game. Well, Yes i will, everyone can give me !@#$% for smoking, that is a real important one. When i reviewed posts from before my time, i found one from whilemson, great info that i was unaware of, and as i know who he is, read it with special attention and flagged it, great stuff. A search engine WILL not answer a question you do not know to ask

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dust

No, the search engine works just fine, look for text it finds it, everywhere. The problem is winowwing out the wheat from the chaff. Which threads that are labelled blankety blank, really have blankety blank in them and is that blankety blank remotly worth reading from a blankety blank info quest. By there definition, search engines can only answer questions that you know to ask, people can answer questions that they know you should ask. So no the search engine does nothing to solve the problem, but thanks for asking and thanks for putting it in.

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dust

So what exactly is the solution

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dust

As many of you know, i am especially concerned about newby's getting info out of this forum in an easy manner. I will review ALL posts and flag them as interesting so that a search of just the flag word or the flag word and another word that is at least 4 letters long will result in valuable info being learned by those looking and not by a mess of posts that are not really on point. I have a solution, and am willing to do it, but not for long as the amount of info is really really getting large. Are there any other recommendations and i would like the recommendations to come with the offer of doing the work. Nobody wants to be dumped on to take on the huge task of reviewing all of the info here.

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dust

Could you put a schematic of your mount up and include wall thickness and tube and other sizes

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dust

you are gonna have a real laugh when you see how little the temp firwall matters

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dust

It's top on my list, the problem will be making a "perfectly smooth" removable form to lay it up over.

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dust

ONLY if you first laminate titanium on it

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dust

Don't even think of buying precut cores, they are really, really easy to make, we cut all cores for 4 wings in a day.

piece of cake

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dust

have you called them, i would imagine they can fill by cozy3 or cozy4 plan sets as the 3's didn't stop being built when the 4 came out

enjoy the build, come around or accros the lake for plane day

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dust

Another good friend i have that is an automotive engineer told me that the BIGGEST problem chrysler had was "radiative effects"

We do have allot of automotive engineers in metro detroit

Line of sight transfer can end up in places you just don't think will get hot

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dust

Well, the patern was full in scottsdale this summer and i would have loved a parking brake for the twenty minuites i had to wait for the runway

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dust

DON'T USE A MIG ONLY A TIG WITH NORMALIZING OR O/E AND USE IT TO NORMALIZE, dam hate the caps lock, should have retyped it. Mig welds start out too cold and are not good for structural, tig is great, but probably should be normalized and O/E can normalize with it.

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dust

hey, aren't we all newby's at heart, trying to add unneeded things and fix problems that don't exhist

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dust

wasn't it you jim sower

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dust

OK, so the air brake doubles duty as a mud flap and shows it after some time, i'm less that happy about knowing this is going to happen.

What do you think about laminating on Stainless Steel or titanium or ???? to stop the degraded appearance?

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Dust

Welllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll another great plane day

Tom friend

Mike MASTER BUILDER, forum

We are now excellant strake builders, we have it like a science, don't even need to look at the plans, it is simple, this is the fourth one.

Well, i read the plans yesterday and discoverred we had overlooked one minor joint taping. Life is good, we went back and taped the joint on the three previous tanks with material that was left over from taping the current tank together, he he he

lesson for the day, hey stupid, read the plans EVERY time. Oh next plane day will be without me, this saturday, great day for new slaves to get trained and you won't have to put up with me!

on the agenda

rough form top skin and glass it

install flanges on top of tank parts

install hard points for fuel sender and fuel return line

maybe glass a tank top

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dust

Hey, i promoted you as a "master builder" quite some time ago.

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dust