HRM

1 hour ago, KSMooniac said:

...move your plane to the Experimental category for R&D and give it a try. Your plane would not be usable for normal everyday uses, though, until it is returned to a certified state.

I thought you couldn't 'go back' after going R&D experimental.

On 10/7/2022 at 12:13 PM, Fly Boomer said:

Are you able to swing your tail around far enough before shutdown to avoid hand pushing?

Yes. The cable is long enough that the 'swing' is relatively minor to get the tail where it needs to be. Then the winch straightens everything up automatically.

13 minutes ago, Fly Boomer said:

Which winch?

HF with the wired control pod. Looked a lot like this one.

Some sort of pulley or arbor.

Heat transfer efficiency is diminished at altitude.

iPad has no fan and using flight software (heavy graphics, GPS, screen brightness) puts a huge load on them.

Best solution is a holder with fan(s) or just power cycle to give it a rest.

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Let me add that grinding the shims (to get them in and out while the engine is mounted) is common practice--that's in the Maxwell document.

On my E the shims were critical to engine cooling. It has to do with alignment with the front cowl opening. Yes, sort of T&E.

15 hours ago, Jpravi8tor said:

...removing 457 different screws...

Time for a one-piece belly!

14 hours ago, Jerry Pressley said:

Bargain give-a-ways. 

Loved the bunny seats!

1 hour ago, Joshua Blackh4t said:

Hi,

My mechanic has found a couple of holes in the intake boot on my '65 E. 

I've noticed that these are in short supply so I'm starting here. Does anyone have an intake boot for sale and would they be able to post to Australia?

Thanks, Joshua

These boots are made of Uo (unobtainium). Some wrenches have repaired them with rubber compounds.

1 hour ago, Shadrach said:

You have a 67F.  It should not have a doghouse.

I wasn't sure, but there you have it. Just baffling!

1 hour ago, Greg Ellis said:

Glad to see Harley still lurks!!!!

16 hours ago, paulsmeds said:

HRM, did you ever figure out why #2 is hotter?

It was baffling, in more ways than one 

The ol' doghouse (once a Mooniac, always a Mooniac) had just gotten so raggedy it was leaking. We tightened things up and temps improved, slightly. I found that if I didn't push the initial climb like a drag racer, which I dearly loved to do, I could keep the temps down.

Also, I did not run into high temps until I installed my EI MVP50. I think that cylinder always heated up, I just didn't know it until new technology revealed it.

Good luck, just back off the throttle a bit (I know, hard to do in a Mooney).

7 hours ago, Nstarbf said:

it was suggested during my recent oil change that it might be time to look at a prop overhaul.

 

I suggest a chat with Jordan Propeller in San Antone. Exceptional service and knowledge, especially with vintage Mooney props.

5 hours ago, jacenbourne said:

I'm going with old Cessna control yokes, the angle, width, curve and location of the tube all match up with it:

I agree and apparently Anthony @carusoam was prescient about the morbidity of it.

There is a triangular sticker, not unlike the old 'Mooney Bird Decal' with what looks to be a blue and red rectangular banner most likely with the model designation which was lost in the heat.

12 minutes ago, Nokomis449 said:

Yeah they appear to be in much better shape than what I currently have on my '68 G and boy are those things pricey - thus the "sarcasm" tag (/s).

I am wondering if the disks can be 'reconditioned'. I wondered that at the time these were replaced, which was about 8 years ago. These have had time to expand, if they even do so, since they are no longer under compression. The difference in landing was noticeable with the new ones. So the question is, if you pulled yours off (no small feat!) and then let them relax in a rubber restorative bath, would the process buy more time?

Alternatively, jack up the plane to take the weight off, spray the pucks with 'a rubber restorative' and see what happens. When these were on my E they had reached their serviceable limit.

10 hours ago, Nokomis449 said:

...those "pucks", as you call them, are definitely useless trash and I'll pay you $10 plus shipping for the lot.

LOL, those are Lord Landing Gear Shock Disks out of a Mooney '66 E. Hardly useless trash and of high sentimental value. 

7 hours ago, carusoam said:

Did he ever get to pull a plane out of high tension wires?

Odd thing that comes to mind… 

Best regards,

-a-

No way to know. We bought the place from his widow, he had been gone for three years or so  and she really had no idea about anything other than he retired from ConEd. I am not even sure which aircraft he had other than Cessna and Piper over the years.

5 minutes ago, N201MKTurbo said:

I think it is part of a HV disconnect that had an arc flash incident.

Fascinating. The ConEd connection again. Good sleuthing, thanks!

Some of my former students design substations, time to pass it by one of them.

6 hours ago, carusoam said:

What would make the hangar PO want to keep that memory around?

 

LOL, I've often said "Jeez, if I could just have 30 minutes with him for questions." 

Two answers to your questions, in spite of the fact 'we may never know'.

One, he is dead and two, he did not die in a plane crash.

Any bio matter on that yoke, if that is what it is, has long been cleaned off by the many scavengers that call my hangar home.

Shirt fibers, maybe, but I was hoping for structural interpretation of what it is, not forensic.

So much is revealed by these posts...not of the mysterious objects, but more so the posters.

Anyway, time to query the neighborhood.

Best regards,

-HRM-

1 hour ago, Shadrach said:

Looks like what’s left of a 1950s to early 60s Cessna yoke. Appears  to have fire damage. Has the look of a morbid souvenir…

I took another pic of the end with what appears to be a sticker of some sort.

18 hours ago, EricJ said:

 Is any of the center of the yoke readable with a name or logo?

No, but it looks like it was imprinted with a triangular pattern...at first I thought it might be a Mooney-bird, but it isn't and there's no lettering or specific pattern visible.

Here’s the latest…

Video of “the object.”

1 hour ago, N201MKTurbo said:

I’m thinking it might be a lightning arrester core.

I'll post a closeup later, but that is a good guess given the amount of ConEd stuff the PO of my hangar left. He was a retired power crew foreman.

I thought it might be something off a landing gear .