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  1. How are each of the GI-275s configured in that setup? I don't know much about it, but I think the GI-275 can wear a variety of different hats.
  2. If you are talking about the Rocket, I don’t believe the aux tanks have fuel senders, so starting from full, you have to burn off quite a bit before the senders can start to come down. I think usable in the mains is 37.8, and 14.5 in the aux (each side).
  3. I may be doing it wrong but, with the turbo, I leave the mixture in until I reach cruising altitude.
  4. She's a beauty! Does the hangar come with the airplane?
  5. Ah, yes. I had forgotten about the nitrate dope vs butyrate dope.
  6. I'm not up to date on the latest, but I am attuned to the argument that valve seats concentric with the valve guide is a good idea. Also, the argument that valve guides reamed or honed after being pressed in is better than assuming they won't change size or shape while being pressed in. Finally, I'm a sucker for the upsell so, if I had to put on cylinders, I would give a hard look to the builders that can give assurances that, in some cases. their cylinders are "better than new". Best of luck on this journey.
  7. The Mike Busch comment made me laugh, but that's kind of sickening, and it's not even my airplane. Clarence, a mechanic in Canada, once said he was not too impressed by the TSIO-550s in the Mooney or the Cirrus, and he had seen a bunch. Sorry for your woes.
  8. I'm sure I have told this story here before, but a Ford dealership once failed to put lug nuts on my left front wheel. Somehow, they got my truck out front to the pick-up area without the wheel falling off. When I drove away, you can imagine the noise it made -- somehow the 12-year-old who brought the truck up to the front didn't notice the grinding noises. It's not that the lug nuts were loose or that some were missing -- there were zero lug nuts holding the wheel on. I no longer drive Fords (or a pickup for that matter).
  9. As I recall, clear to shrink the linen, silver for UV and to fill the warp and weft, followed by color coat.
  10. Made me laugh, but nobody I know leans while climbing.
  11. The one on the left certainly looks like it would fill a bigger gap around our not-so-perfect-fitting doors and, as GB says, be easier to close. The silicone should last a long time. Nice innovation.
  12. Everything is a guess until it sells. That's the only true measure of what it's worth. When looking for mine, I evaluated what avionics, paint, interior, and other accessories were worth. Then set a value on each based or hours or, for avionics, just divide by two. The difference between the asking price and my perceived value of all the options is the seller's assertion of the value of the airframe. Crude metric, but I needed something I could build a spreadsheet around.
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