speaking of co sensors i have been told by a gas engineer that those liitle spots that turn a different colour are not so good they sem to lag behind what is going on some years back had a nasty escape with co soem tiny gaps underneath the wing -meant even though exhaust was outletting aft of those gaps that co managed to get in went nearly unconsious p
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Langford" <n5...@hiwaay.net> To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 1:20 PM Subject: Re: KR> performance numbers? > Larry Flesner wrote: > > >The reason I ask is that you Corvair fliers seem to get > better climb performance than my 0-200. < > > I've been using a stopwatch lately to time my climbs, and I've been getting > an average of almost 1000'/min with full fuel, and that's an average from > ground (700') to 10,000' or so. And I don't have gap seals yet. I'm not > sure how much gap seals will do for me, since my ailerons and flaps are > pretty tightly gapped, but for Troy (who used the wide open wedge design > from the plans for his ailerons) seals made a huge improvement. > > Speaking of wings, I changed something last night that should make a > difference in my aileron feel. I have a "heavy left wing", caused by the > fact that I'm sitting on the left side, mostly, and maybe also because I > have more cusp underneath the left aileron than the right (none). I had > stuck some balsa RC model "trailing edge" wedges under the right aileron to > jack it up during flight. That wasn't very smart, in retrospect, because I > was now forcing BOTH ailerons up. Last night I removed the wedges from the > bottom of the right aileron and added an aluminum tab to the top of the left > aileron, so now I'm forcing the left aileron down, rather the right aileron > up. This ought to lessen control forces a little, and remove some > unnecessary force from the aileron control system. > > I also finished up the cabin heat muff and valve, so I should have cabin > heat now (and yes, I also installed a CO detector). My Terra 760D radio > should be back today, with a clean bill of health. Nothing wrong with it > after all. I checked all the wiring last night and there's nothing funny > there either. My guess is that an aluminum chip got in there and shorted > across a chip's legs and created a sort of "brown out". Unlikely, you say? > The day before I flew it to Daytona Beach, I drilled 4 holes in my panel to > mount the big GPS remote display. There's a little 1/4" hole for sidetone > adjustment located about 4" from the holes I drilled, right in the top of > the radio. The drill would have funneled the chips right over that hole. I > blew the thing out before I shipped off to the shop to have it repaired > (suspecting something like that), but neglected to check it to see if it > worked after that. Duhhhhhhhh.. > > Looks like daughter Claire will get her first KR ride Thursday, to a family > reuninon in South Alabama. The weather's supposed to be pretty decent. 30 > mph gusts today though... > > Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama > see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford > email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net > > > > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.4/176 - Release Date: 20/11/2005 > > ---------------------------------------- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 24549 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Try www.SPAMfighter.com for free now! -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.4/176 - Release Date: 20/11/2005
