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Is this that canard that had the odd shaped nose and a camera turret...looked like a hybrid Longeze? The guy bought it from somebody down in Texas that had it sitting for years? Logs by Melville- This must be that one.

Drew, It sounds like you are just going to almost surface mount them. Most guys are recessing the foam all the way back to the outer skin of the fuse with a nifty mounting area. I was told by someone to wait to install them until the strakes are in, and that kinda made sense to me. FWIW

You obviously are a distant relative of Nat or have some latent MacGuyver blood in you that allowed such a feat. For us mere mortals, a swissarmyknife or better yet Chrissi's hacksaw blade is just noy enuf.

Hey Rich. I object. Us scale users have not gone to the dark side. In fact I think we saw the light. I change my ratios on the fly...I often want some small part to go 'off' sooner than another lay-up[and use like 3/4 to 1/4], and then I decide I can conserve some Fast hardener and go with more slow in the mix say reverse that 1/3 to 2/3 and all it is is looking at the grams I am adding as the digital scale ticks upwards as I am adding the different hardeners. I just have to get the hardener #'s to add up to 40...on a 100gram resin batch. [MGS335] Its just to dang easy. The art is getting a feel for what a particular layup is going to use, and how much time it is going to take to do it, and getting the best variable mix [since its variable with a scale] so that it cures in a decent time. [i don't like having the garage at 80 degrees longer than an hour before a layup and longer than its set time]. The 80 degree mark is the minimum I have arrived at from everybody describing good cure environment temps.

Wayne. I'll take you up on that suggestion. What compound would you say?

Glad somebody got that one=] Thats exactly what I was talkin about. No lie, once when I was about 17 my married Bro-in-law was telling me about his goofy friend[who I knew]..married for about two years..and he couldn't believe his goofy friend showing him a brand new S&W44mag 10'' barrel Dirty Harry revolver he was "giving his wife for her birthday"...heck, my bro-in-law said she probably would lose all her teeth from the recoil if she could even pick the dang thing up to shoot it first...He predicted it would lead to no good...but I heard she tried it out. Thats a WOMAN. I'm sure we all have a story. Yea, buy your wife one of these bandsaws...she can cut up the whole chickens for the BBQ, just like at the butcher...trick is cut 'em frozen. Also ya gotta change the blade from glass/foam blade to chiken blade..but hey, no biggie. So yea, sell her on that...It'll probly be easier that explaining that 44mag.=]

45.00 to 55. for unassembled-not too bad of an increase. Unless he sent them as the assembled version for 45. I would think the lighted version would be possibly useful. The assembly is no big deal. I think having these installed as backups are a good idea, to the capacitor/ I.P.fuel gauge L+R units. They might be a bit overkill to just having the 'glass laid up as the fuel window- if used as backups. Wjat thnk?

Unfortunately those are not the same. No "elbow". Look closely at James' photo. Spruce carries these regular ones + a little variety as well. Thanks Though.=]

Thats the one. I think they drop to about 249.00/259.00 on the Valentines day buy-for-your-spouse Sale. Get on the HF online mailer...they bug me all the time with sales stuff.

Found out these are no longer made. I guess I will be making an elbow receiver out of glass to mate to a screw-in eyeball vent, if I want one. Case closed. Dano. Cue the hula five oh jungle beat theme.

Right on Chrissi. The hacksaw bit..what a riot=]. Why try to be Macgyver if you don't have to be? When I read a few years ago about your suggestion to buy the bandsaw you were using, I decided to go for it, and I gotta say its made building more convenient. So I agree, that Harbor Freight Chineez bandsaw is quite the value, I think I paid 230 bucks for it. If I would have had to pay 400 bucks for one, I might have been more reluctant...but that rig is great, and a real sleeper of a deal. They could charge 50 bucks more and still be under everybody else for such a nice deep bandsaw. I also like to lay up on foam and then cut out the shapes after cure. A great technique.

Thanks Waiter- that looks great! If the elbow eyeballs are 180 bucks, I may go for the more reasonable ones..and mount them similar to the way you show. I need a vent that can be completely closed off as well,[my wif gets cold easily] so they are probably going to be expensive. =[ I like the fiberglass fairing look, like you have done. I would just change it a little bit as I show below. Thanks Pal..BTW, I really like your website.

Okay. I found him finally. I would've used Marcs list but I couldn't post a photo. Please delete this thread if desired John.

Thanks you two, I still want to try to find these elbow eyeballs. I don't even want to position them exactly like they are shown in the photo, but the elbow shape and orientation is useful to me. [i wanna create a little bit of an fiberglass fairing to keep the profile shallow] Does anybody know whose Long Eze this is? Gracias.

I am biting my right hand knuckle....ssssttttttopp! Jussss to gooood.

Well, after looking many places for almost an hour..I figured I have paid my price and I guess can ask my question. Whose LongEze is it in this below showing this ELBOW type aluminum eyeball, as I want to ask where to maybe buy similar? He had a nice writeup as I recall.... I usually tag the builder on my photo label, but this was long ago that I found this and kept it as interesting, and I guess I didn't then. Elbow eyeball assembly.bmp

I am salivating. Way good. Give me mo trip banter!!!!!

Theres a LOT of plumbing that wont fit in a Cozy cowl here.

I agree Steve. But for many years a guy is not building the parts you are describing..so a 39 buck Peloz scale works fine...and save you 200 bucks=]

Thats an old "Stanley Sprockets" bandsaw. Check out episode 3 from season 4 of the Jetsons.... George was buildin' his own plexi domed flyin' contraption in his garage. You can plainly see him cutting out some kind of templates with it. Jane was harping on him about spending to much time working on it. A classic. It made great electronic sounds when George was using it. I bet this would go for a lot of dough at one of those 'Auctions of the Stars' programs. I mean, who would have though Bea Aurthers false teeth or Robert Guoletts hairpeice would have brought BIG money? Somebody SHOULD buy this as its going to be a steal on Ebay! Really.

You could just buy a 36.00 Peloz [staples/Office Max] postal scale. It has a tare /zero out function and does grams... 1. Put the plastic cup on the scale. 11 grams. Zero out. 2. Unscrew the resin and pour in 138 grams. 3. Muliplier enter .40 x 138 grams [for mgs335-that I am using presently] on small calculator. 4. Pour in 55.2 grams of hardener...some fast and some slow depending on the work time you need. 5. Done. I found the pump a big hassle. So the convenience of the scale during the majority of the construction persuaded me to sell my scale to another builder. Every scaled cup is easy and accurate. I haven't missed the pump and its idiosyncrasies and I always wondered if it was accurate.

335 is very viscous and wets out nicely..I've been using that. I am changing to Proset after these two gallons are gone. Dennis Oelman SWEARS by EZpoxy and has built about 10 sets of wings and a couple of Cozies with it. The key is working wwith something and finding you like it... and IT LIKES YOU. Some epoxies will not be friendly to you aromatically and physically. I worked with another builder who used 285 and it wet out about like the 335 I was using..but when the goofy haz mat shipping entered the picture..he switched to Proset and that is very similar. Very sweet stuff. He incidentally has no reaction to Proset, whereas he always itched and rashed up just from the MGGS285 product in the air.

Thats why a lot of guys are using other resin systems... Theres at least 3 nice resin/epoxies out there. Aeropoxy , The old Ezpoxy, Proset, MGs335...The sun doesn't rise and set on MGS285. Why don't you head in another direcrion? About a billion Canards been built with EZpoxy. Scaled is using Proset now. Just to consider.

"Worried"? If I had looked at the item when purchasing it, and had any concern whatsoever- I would not have installed it. It inserts over an inch and a half and is a very close fit. No concern. The only other ''concern'' might be that is it is not heated. "Ahhhhh", you say... nodding knowingly as this lightbulb goes off..."Now thats the limitation". It is if you need a hard IFR airplane, for which this aircraft is not designed nor intended...so if you need your pitot heated, you obviously can't use this one=] "Fall out". It occurs to me that maybe you are thinking that being pointed downwards, maybe it will fall out. No it does not. And when you park it, you remove it so the line personnel and looky Lous don't bend your beak.

It is my understanding. Possibly a Cozy/LongEze urban legend, that the wire [rod I would call it since it is way to thick to be considered a wire to me] was put into the equation, because in a crosswind the doors blew sideways dispite the wider front throat and hung some fliers gear up in the cycle. With the vertical ''wire'' the floppage side to side is not possible. I went with that. Lynns just looked bombproof.