Although Joe Horton emailed me this morning with "STEP AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER AND PUT YOUR HANDS ON THE PLANE!", and I've done exactly that, I feel like I ought to throw this out there...I've been thinking about the carb heat box and that sort of stuff again, and it occured to me that the site at http://www.aviacompworldwide.com/connectors.html might come in handy for other folks facing the same dilema. I already have the heat muff that's designed for 1.5" O.D. tubing (http://www.wicksaircraft.com/catalog/product_cat.php/subid=1343/index.html ). The carb heat boxes are accessible from one of the tabs up top, but the fittings below are some that you won't see anywhere else. AS&S and Wicks sell some of them, but this is the source of the whole line of the good stuff. I think I'm going to have to make something special for my application, since their Ellison plenum is set up for updraft carb, but I got some of the ideas from the fittings on this site. Basically I'm going to replicate that box in fiberglass, laid up on foam with hideously fabricated valves. I'll let you know how it turns out...
Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net --------------------------------------------------------------
