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I have two batteries, both odyssey one a PC625 and the other a PC680. I have a completely redundant electrical system with two alternators.

I personally would never use the Earthx or any other LI ...

Before you go through all the trouble of lapping the valve, do yourself a favor and borescope the cylinder to take a look at the valve. It could very well be overheated in some portion of the circumf ...

I built this gust lock out of PVC for less than $20. I have been using this since 2012 and over 1000 hours and never had a failure in all kinds of wind etc. It holds the rudder, elevator and ailero ...

I attached a photo of the sender unit. I would think it would be extremely difficult to rotate the entire internal sending unit assembly without noticing or hearing it. More that likely you just r ...

Here is what the heavy duty large Bruce Cover looks like. It does take up a lot of room, but definitely a great long term storage cover. I have both this cover and the light weight cover from flight ...

Kelley,
I use the static Cling tint film. I have three different sizes I carry. One for the side window, one for a spot size and one piece that goes entirely across the front window 1/3 of the way ...

I have never noticed the vibration, but I did not like all of the slop in the current trim actuation design. I redesigned the trim bell crank pivot point to reduce the slop, and I use #10 castellated ...

Shawn at planearound.com

Hi Jim,
I was always concerned with this design of the pitch servo. I spoke with TT about it 8 years ago and they assured me they had redesigned the force multiplier to remedy this issue. Yours is ...

I have the vans black wing walk installed. It’s been 6 years and still looks new. It comes with the cutouts for the screws

I painted the interior of my doors. I used an epoxy based single stage paint with a flattening agent. To add texture to the surface I came back and spayed with a 1-3psi setting on the paint gun. Th ...

I would look at the pressure sending unit. You did not mention what you were using for engine data. Both Garmin and Dynon supply a Kavlico fuel pressure sending unit that has the vent internal to th ...

I forwarded this to Gary R who expressed interest

Stick on reflective heat shield from acs

Bill,
Your GS issue is the same issue I had with the archer antennas. So I replaced them with a tail mounted dipole (cat whisker). Problem solved!

The archer antennas worked great for VOR and L ...

Well stated Tim. My sentiments exactly!

Kelly,
In my case it was a matter of losing the GS signal during approach that caused me to re-think the Archer antenna solution. The Archer antennas are somewhat directional, and apparently at a sp ...

I used to have Archer antennas in each wing tip, one for each radio. After loosing the glide slope signal several times during the turn to final, I decided to add a cat wisker antenna on the belly, w ...

First, you need to size your photos smaller prior to posting.

Several things can cause the nose wheel shimmy. Usually the friction nut needs to be retightened to take up the slack in the bellevill ...

Just an observation after reading this thread. I am not convinced that the pressure fluctuation and the engine stumble are related. It would seem that your pressure would have to drop below 15 psi f ...