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  1. BDPetersen
    A pipe(or jack handle) through the knuckle in the main gear gives a safe lift point for a trolley jack to give the 1” lift needed to get the wing jack in position. Not as elegant as a shorter jack but cheaper.
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    Ashland County 3G4 here. Sounds like a meet up at Urbana (Grimes) for breakfast some day.
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    Just finished installing bladders in my “C”. On initial fueling I stood by with the large paint sticks and a marker, assuming a definitive dipstick would result. Alas, the 5, 10, 15 & 20 marks were about 3/4” apart starting from the bottom end. Then 25 gal was another 4”! The new outboard location of the filler makes the dipstick method a bit sketchy. It’s the 6 bag system, 54 gal. I wonder if other bladder folks concur.
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    Just bought a supply of gaskets from Brown Aircraft Supply. About $8/ea.
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    Mine starts in my roaster. Home roasting is interesting and a never ending quest for knowledge about what the hell your trying to do. Then it ends up in the French press. For all my trouble, I seldom have more than 1 really good mug a day. And it’s never quite as good as a cup in Schiphol, Paris or Osaka. Everyone does it better than we do.
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    Wonder what they’re worth. I think I have most of a B-4 autopilot system over in the hangar. Always wondered if the servos were the same as PC and step retract but never checked.
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    Here’s an unscientific observation I’ve had after the last couple of filter installations I’ve made . . . Using a one of the special oil filter wrenches, it seemed to take an alarming amount of torque to get it to “click”. I even reinstalled another filter using a standard torque wrench and socket with a more satisfying feel. Perhaps the oil filter wrenches are suspect.
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    Had forgotten about the aux bladders on my 310 needing to be kept less than full for leak avoidance. Tuna tanks were fine. Ironically, this afternoon I’ve been researching O&N bladders for my “C”.
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    But, to be clear, inside the 30 mile veil squawking 1200, you should NOT have your ads-b programmed for incognito. Lots of VFR, not talking to atc in the veil beneath Class B. If you thought being anonymous was cool and then make the excursion into the veil airspace, you could be in trouble? I know I can program my uAvionix on the ground, but I’ve never tried in-flight should I find the need to reconfigure to accommodate my whimsical flight path.
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    Under the category of “Things I Should Know” comes the question, if one is cruising along in the 30 mile veil not talking to atc, squawking 1200 (as one does) but with one’s ads-b set to be incognito, is one compliant with the ads-b requirement for flight in rule airspace? Is the box still putting out whatever is needed even though anonymous?
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    I believe I have been guilty of the same. No harm, no foul. Just when we were sure we were invincible . . .
  12. BDPetersen
    Delight to fly, outstanding performance. Well, maybe the B720 could outclimb. For some of us it was the first glass cockpit, fms experience. (“Why the hell did it do that?”). Rejiggering our discipline to a two pilot cockpit was an issue. Favorite? Certainly. Sentiment favorite? B727 probably.
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    I flew the fixed gear, fixed pitch prop M20D in the early ‘60’s. I’m thinking it was about 115 knots. About like a 180 Cherokee. I thought an MSer still had an unconverted one.
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    I think most are made in the Philippines. Very detail oriented. Used to get models of company aircraft from ramp guys in Manila. Only issue I’ve had is when I ordered a model of my 310 from the guy at OSH years ago. There was some kind of dispute between him and them and the model showed up 2 years later. Impeccably detailed down to the unpainted fin cap on the vertical stab. BUT unfortunately my 310F with “tuna tanks” was awarded new style canted tanks on the model. Sigh. I decided it might be easier to convert my plane to match.
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    Factorydirectmodels.com just did my Stinson for me. Fine job.
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    If you buy the package the GAD 33 is a part of it. About $500, as I recall. Mine is still on my todo list.
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    Hearing loss reasons have always been a mystery to me. All of my 74 years have been in noisy airplanes. Backseat of the Stinson, DC-3, DC-6 Boeing jets, walk-arounds on ramps, etc. First 40 years mostly minimally protected. So I should be deaf, but my hearing is pretty normal. Go figure. When I noticed ears ringing I just got unlisted ears.
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    In the early to mid 80’s. I had a student that built one in about 1980 that was as good what was becoming commercially available. No longer having to strain my vocal chords to be heard by a student was the benefit I most appreciated.
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    Seemed to go painlessly.
  20. BDPetersen
    Sometimes I think I should part with this. Fun but overkill.
  21. BDPetersen
    All I know is that when Mickey’s big hand is on the 12 and his little hand is on the 5 it’s time for the early bird specials . . .
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    Neither, thankfully. But there are apparently a few pitfalls out there.
  23. BDPetersen
    Recently I had a card decline that was apparently generated by inserting my card in the reader backwards ( I was at optometrist and eyes were dilated). Getting my card reactivated involved getting photos of my drivers license transmitted to the card company (like transmitting a check, front and back). Frustrating. Cash in billfold hurts my back. Writing checks makes my hand hurt.
  24. BDPetersen
    About a 500’ stroll across the field. Sometimes about 200’ too far when nature calls.
  25. BDPetersen
    Never having had the opportunity to use a travel board to check rigging, I’ve always wondered what advantage it has over checking say aileron travel with a digital device, such as a $10 level. Is it possible the boards are a throw back to days when precise angle measuring devices weren’t available. Educate me.
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