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It’s the fittings that are useful, and the 56506 will eat up the rubber in a regular insect sprayer, so buy another $6 one for when the first one won’t pump up or hold air anymore.

210 is a better airplane than a push me, pull you. If it will fit in a 210, it will carry it. four adults, two kids and baggage

You should be able to get from Mooney the production test flight report. ‘It’s the checklist that every production aircraft must pass before the aircraft can be certified. Often it’s two separate reports, the ground checks and flight checks are often separate. But it will walk you through every check that’s done to a new production aircraft. There is usually a separate one for each model of aircraft and Mooney most likely has the ones for aircraft no longer in production in their historical files, calling and asking for the person in charge of their quality control dept should get you the forms.

Charter, I’d bet if you did a calculation of how often the bigger airplane would be needed vs actual costs of owing a part of a second, the charter comes out cheaper. ‘Currency is one thing, competency is another, don’t take the family in anything that you wouldn’t be comfortable in Inadvertent hard IFR, depends on the individual But I’d expect that to take for me two actual trips a month flying IFR

WhatI read was that he inherited a not insignificant amount, but not much really, enough to live a middle class lifestyle on certainly, then was on the Board of Apple, doing what? and got a not insignificant amount of stock for that, also Google, again doing what? Inventing the internet I guess Bought apparently a failingTV station and sold it to Al Jazeera for a large profit. I know he was selling “carbon credits” but apparently that went bust as did any other business he started, it seems his money was given to him. OK, so he “earned” it with his political connections. My guess is they were rewards for his political agenda, but the Al Jazeera thing has me concerned.

Did you read that article? I didn’t see anything about Gore-tex, but I did see one huge massive political payoff one after the other. I had no idea actually

You have what I believe many have, and that’s a good attempt in making a flat piece bend around compound curves by cutting it into pieces and putting it back together. ‘Unless I’m mistaken custom seals may be available that will fit a whole lot better

It is, thanks

Google the part number, you will come up with quite a few cross matches. ‘Most smart aircraft manufacturers assign their own part number to purchased parts. That makes them the sole source of supply, and makes it harder to find the part from other sources. ‘But the Relays are widely available, just not from Mooney, they are apparently commonly used on Golf Carts and winches, they are a 100 amp continuous duty relay. ‘Now I’m not abdicating using a relay not sourced from the aircraft manufacturer, but when said manufacturer won’t supply it, you have two choices, one of which is the junkyard, and that’s not legal either as the part won’t have an 8130. ‘Unless I’m mistaken the replacement requires a kit to adapt to it, and it’s not available either, I found several at junkyards and one NOS for $800. The original relay can be had for about $20.

Need to be on jacks of course.

Yes that one. After you have it awhile it will get sticky too from the 5606 softening it. It is overpriced, but is worth having.

I understand, it’s the hypocrisy of it all that irritates me, Al Gore is a Climate hero, even though he lives in a huge house, with a monster electric bill, flies around in private jets and consumes more fossil fuels in a month than I do in a year. ‘But it’s all OK. see he’s carbon free, because he buys carbon credits from companies that he owns that sell such things, Makes him rich I’m sure, where does all his money come from? Ever wonder what a “carbon Credit” is and how paying money absolves you of the sin of excess consumption? Why is it considered argumentative to ask how would a $1,000 landing fee help fight climate change? I’m waiting for the carbon tax that I know is coming, and that will I’m sure make some very rich, but how will it fight climate change? I really feel sure that if the friends of the Earth get the ear of the ones in charge now, we can kiss 100LL good bye. My only hope is we fly under the radar, and don’t get noticed.

Not all turbo motors do, but usually one designed form the beginning to be a turbo motor as opposed to a motor that a turbo was added to, almost always has a lower compression ratio, often also forged pistons and oil jets spraying on the bottom of the pistons and many times a beefier crankshaft and stronger block all to withstand higher power outputs and for cooling. ‘But that’s a static compression ratio, by lowering the static compression ratio, that allows more boost because boost adds air, which raises the compression because the air is already under pressure, before the piston begins its travel upward. This in effect makes a turbo motor “bigger” meaning that a 360 with a turbo may have the same air charge of a 400 cu in engine, and as the air was under pressure to begin with it has the effect of even higher compression ratio. A turbo motor can be thought of as a variable compression ratio engine, and a variable displacement engine too. That explains the power increase, but the efficiency increase comes primarily from harvesting waste heat and using it. It can get complex, if a turbo is used for HP increase, it can have a lower BSFC due to needing extra rich mixture to stave off detonation, but if used for efficiency and power is limited to a level where a lean mix is safe, then they are more efficient, meaning a better BSFC.

Is it just me, but does anyone else fail to see how fees affect the climate?

Outstanding, thanks, I remember seeing the red and black on the actuator, but I thought they spliced into aircraft wire, but I will look. If they do maybe I can get the wire number or buzz it out with the multimeter. I still will likely replace both with the though that they are 41 years old and one is giving problems, how far behind could the other be. But if I can verify which is which I’ll label them for future needs. I think the schematic indicates that they splice into numbered wires, but I can’t read the numbers

Just read it, it seems to involve a water manometer which are easy to home make, and I guess any Mooney owner with wet tanks ought to have one anyway to test wing leak repairs. But I bet a pressure bulb used in a sphygmanometer if you were careful would work well too, just go slow and watch the AS indicator. Be sure to tape the drain holes in the pitot before you start or you can’t build pressure of course, if you look you’ll see them, I think they may be there to let water out, but that’s a guess.

I haven’t but does it involve blowing in it? besides his problem is like mine, intermittent, and they are hard to trouble shoot To test the AS switch, I’d want a pitot static tester, put the handle up. then slowly increase airspeed until the horn stopped and the gear came up, that gives you the airspeed at which it activates as well as function check it. If I understand the system. But I don’t have a pitot static tester available anymore. But I bet lunch the safety switch is a red herring, only because he didn’t get the horn, and the few times a have seen videos of gear swings, the horn is always there when the switch is placed in retract. ‘Now I’m new to Mooney’s so I will bow if you will to those with experience, but if the switch is bad, you will get the horn won’t you?

No, I think I’ll shotgun it and replace both, but it would be nice to know, I’m not so good with schematics, some wires likely go to both etc. ‘If I had jacks, and I may before I get there, then of course I could find out which is which with a multimeter during a retract test, and I may. ‘I’m looking to see what it takes to hold down the tail. I’m 250 and it won’t go down with me, but I can bounce it so it’s close to 250, then of course add some for safety, and then add some more so that a person can climb in to the cockpit to actuate the gear, and I’d guess your at at least 400 lbs min. but likely 500 to be sure. Concrete is 20 lbs per gallon, so I’d need a 25 gl wash basin min, and they aren’t easy to find believe it or not, probably best place would be a feed and seed. ‘So that takes me to an engine hoist, and they have no mechanical lock, or I don’t think they do. ‘I don’t have a clue what it takes to put an anchor point in the hanger floor, or who would you hire as I don’t have the tools?

I just put my panels back on, but they are easy to find, they are under the big panel, the second one back from the nose. they are simply large button looking momentary switches that are actuated by a flap piece of metal that’s clamped to gear actuating rods, hard to miss. ‘This same panel covers both the actuator and the relays

Testing it on jacks means your bypassing the airspeed safety switch, so I don’t understand how that will test the switch? Secondly as has been said, you didn’t get the other warnings you should have for it to be an airspeed safety switch, especially the horn, hard to miss that. I believe your going to have to trouble shoot this in the air, unless of course you have access to a pitot static system tester and an rankin some kts that way and test on jacks, I woudnt just blow on the pitot tube as that’s tough to get a steady airspeed and not be too much etc. ‘I think your going to have to wait for it to not work again, then push the airspeed safety bypass button and see if the gear starts up them, I’m betting it won’t, andI base thwt in you not getting the horn in flight when it didn’t work. ‘I think it’s going to be the relay myself, but as I’m trying unsuccessfully to find out which is which, I don’t even know which one to change. ‘The problem with intermittent as I used to tell people who wanted me to fix something is, I can’t fix what isn’t broken, because it’s working for me.

The real question is how much a month can you spend taking care of it, will an unexpected $10,000 bill kill you? You may be better off, especially if you price insurence to buy a simple, non complex airplane first. It’s still flying and you can enjoy it too, a whole lot less to go wrong on a Cherokee 140 or so than a Mooney, and you can get a good one for the same money that will buy a basket case Mooney. Also Miami Beach is not a good place to leave an airplane tied down outside

A turbo is slightly more efficient, even without any playing with mixtures, a turbo takes what is normally waste energy and extracts power from it, heat from the exhaust of course. Of course they also add weight, there is never a free lunch.

That still doesn’t tell the story, not really because do many of us actually cruise at best power which is what about 150F ROP? Conti’s are a different motor, they do behave slightly differently too. That’s why I was saying pick your favorite LOP setting, record the speed, and then duplicate that speed at 50 ROP, in a 360 Lycoming to prevent mixing of apples to oranges. ‘I suspect from my previous experience with a 540 Lycoming and a 520 Continental, that for whatever reason the Continental does better LOP, I’m defining better as less power loss. But the proof is in the pudding and it’s easy to do, beyond a fuel flow meter it doesn’t require any special instrumentation. ‘I’ve not done it, so I don’t know the answer, but I’m expecting about 10%, because a 10% increase in BSFC is huge, 1 or 2% is actually nothing sneeze at, the Airlines would kill for 1 or 2%.

I’m not saying don’t run LOP and I understand some of its advantages, although honestly I hadn’t considered some like CO output. ‘All I am suggesting is go out yourself and determine how much fuel flow difference there is, I haven’t done it yet on my Mooney, just don’t do what many do and say I burn 10 gls an hour ROP, but only 7 LOP so therefore I save 30% on fuel. Go out yourself and as I said set yourself up at your favorite LOP cruise, then go to 50F ROP, and adjust your manifold pressure to achieve your LOP cruise speed, that’s the actual fuel savings. ‘Why 50F ROP, well you have to pick something and I believe that’s Lycoming’s recommend cruise mixture, so may as well pick that.

No one knows which is which?