I was working in the hangar tonight and took a few more pictures of the carbon fiber air intake that I made. The front of the carb heat box has a K&N tapered air filter on it and the air intake was laid up in such a way that it slips on tight over the back flange of the filter but has a gap of 1/4" all around the front of the air filter. The air filter is also open on the front end as you can see in the pictures so it not only gets air in the front but also all around the sides as it was designed for. I think the scoop came out pretty well although I've got some filling and sanding to do to it. Check out the pictures if you're interested at my web site: http://www.sharkdriver.zoomshare.com. The pictures are in the "carb heat box" album.
It was cold in the hangar but with the 10' X 20' portable garage that my wife bought me last Christmas over the fuselage I can heat it warm enough with a salamander kerosene heater so that a couple of sweatshirts make it comfortable. It is 23 degrees outside, but inside I had it up into the 50's. It makes it workable all winter long here in northwest Ohio. The discussion on radio antenna's has been interesting although I made mine from the RST Engineering kit like Mark Langford did his. I can receive Indy Center from inside my hangar and it's 150 miles away. The lower section of the copper tape I wrapped barber pole style around a plastic 1/4" sink supply line so that it would fit the full length down into the fuselage and hot glued the upper end of the tube to the bottom of the lower vertical stabilizer rib right where the antenna cable attaches. It worked great and I think that this antenna will do fine. I bought a 15' piece of military surplus antenna cable with the fittings already on it for $9.00 so I have about $37.00 total in my antenna and cable. Neal Hornung E-mail: lt1corve...@earthlink.net EarthLink Revolves Around You.
