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Hi Gary. Give Clytie my best regards.

Try downloading and plotting the data. Sometimes I can see things in a broad overview that aren't apparent otherwise. I find that the free plotting features o ...

I don't think it's UV. The fuel tank filler opening placards on my plane are black on white P-Touch labels and the print did not fade after being tied down outside since last February. Don't know ab ...

Goldpilot, I had similar problems viewing daily emailed compilations. The only way I can read them all reliably is to view the web listing at Matronics:

http://forums.matronics.com/viewforum.php?f ...

Now you're getting my hopes up, again.... Gary had convinced me that either I be happy with what I have, or buy a Jaguar cowl. So I decided to be happy.<G>

Seriously, I see what you mean. ...

Barry,

A few years ago, I had a Cheetah owner come in who wanted a new upper right half of the cowling to fix a similar problem. About $1500 later, after buying the right upper cowling half ($85 ...

Hi Barry,

Can you push the corner down? Is there a gap at the mating surface to the lower cowling? Odds are, there isn't much you can do.

Gary

I've tried to push it tighter originally, bu ...

At the risk of being way off in the weeds...
Isn't it possible to adjust the height of the cowl latches? Has that been tried to pull the top cowl down more?

Dan Schmitz
Tiger 4518B
KASH

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Send a pic of you measuring the gap.

At first I thought you wanted a photo of my smiling face while I was measuring the gap...but reconsidered after I looked in the mirror.<G>

So t ...

Barry, if you had wanted a near perfect plane, you missed your opportunity. The original cowling is built to the nearest .3 inches. Yours looks fine to me.

Barry, go find some other Cheetahs/Tige ...

You can definitely see cracks in the cowl at the top of the curve of each "high point". Can you take/post pictures of the inside of the cowl?

Here is a pretty full set of photos both ins ...

Both runup roughness and idle mixture questions are resolved. Each mag runs smoothly during runup when done leaned. Did 3 checks today and all were good.

Mixture test done a idle produced only 30 ...

Gary, I did post photos. They show up in the webmail listing so I'm not sure why you didn't get them.

Try this link:

http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?t=90423

you'll have to send pic ...

I warned you that I had lots of questions. My next one relates to the alignment of the upper cowl to the nose bowl and the fuselage at the base of the windscreen. On my Tiger there are gaps where th ...

If I set the plugs, I set them to .018.

Gary
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On May 24, 2012, at 2:10 PM, "bkspero" <bkspero> wrote:

No, these were installed by the other A&P that ...

First off you can't check the idle mixture unless the engine is fully
warmed up (after flying). Then you should get about a 25 rpm rise from
full rich when you lean slowly at 800-1000 rpm, sa ...

I think the old rule was to do the run up at full rich. I've gone to leaning to near peak RPM at 1800 then doing the mag checks. If you forget to go full rich on takeoff, it will remind you when the ...

..... I have noticed that it also needs leaned aggressively on the ground to run clean and it's best and during ground operation mag checks...

I am just beginning to play with leaning on the grou ...