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I've never flown anything but Cessna 152s and 172's until I started on my 701 Phase I so the transition has taken some time and is still very much ongoing.

I've been using 55 KIAS on base and final ...

I don't claim to be an expert, but I suspect it would take something fairly drastic like air in an oil line to create the symptoms you described. I've got a 912S with a newer-style cowl and it will ...

I took a page from Bobkat's book and made a trim piece by laying up fiberglass around the joint between the windscreen and the glareshield/cowl/sides. I'll bridge the seam with vinyl striping tape, ...

I approached it the same way as Geoff--decided on the engine, bought just the mount, and kept on going. If push comes to shove and you change your mind on the engine later you can swap out the mount ...

I'm trying to decide whether to substitute camlocks, Skybolt equivalents, or something of that ilk for the screw/washer/nutplate method recommended by Zenith for attaching the top cowl to the lower co ...

Given all the questions about fuel additives nowadays, if I had a choice I'd run aluminum lines as already mentioned. You might not be able to do that though unless you open the whole back up the ski ...

Thanks for all the feedback. The question is resolved and I'm now on to over-analyzing the next issue.

Per Mark's suggestion, I mounted them at the Rotax-specified distance even though it put the ...

If I'm remembering it right, locating that hole/slot through the nylon fairlead and the slot in the side of the fuselage was kind of a pain in the arse due to the geometry involved. I drilled a sma ...

Sounds like you've got a good working installation that the rest of us strap-hangers can copy, Mark. Did you mount the probes at the Rotax's specified distance (even if on a curved part of the heade ...

Here's a question that I see has come up a couple times before in the archives but without answers, so I'll try again...

I want to mount a couple of Dynon's "hose-clamp" style EGT probes ...

Add me to the long list of people who will be interested to hear how the composite gear testing turns out. My mechanical engineer brother-in-law has been shaking his head over the weight of the sto ...

I built the firewall before I had the mount and for the most part everything worked out pretty well. I did have to do a fair amount of trimming on the bottom lugs of the engine mount (the new-style ...

Ladies/Gents:

I'm in the process of wiring up a KX-125 Nav/Com into my Zenith 701 panel. Would anyone happen to have an installation manual for this radio? I've got the connector pinouts, but st ...

I was building in a 14' x 24' garage for awhile and got along pretty well. Built all the airfoils including the wings in there, including storage of everything except the first wing, which got moved ...

Vic:

I put stiffeners between the ribs on my 701 wings, but did not tie them into the front spar and rear channel. Just set their length so they went up to the edge, and started riveting them 10 m ...

Thanks for all the good feedback. Don't have enough burners or hands to do a proper heat/torque adjustment on them so I went ahead and put on the two-piece conversion ends from Zenith. They'll add ...

Ladies/Gents:

Started hanging the wings on the 701 fuselage last week. All went perfectly until I got to the front struts. Mine are the one-piece factory units and like a lot of others on the lis ...

I went with small (100mm dia) inspection plates for the strut attach points as you described, plus larger ones just big enough to pull the strobe power supplies through in each wingtip. Also small in ...

Jerry:
I've attached a picture of the left side of my 912 ring mount. You can see the tab sticking out to the left where it will be bolted to the firewall. The bolt goes through the firewall and th ...

I had the the same problem. I ended up fabricating a new, somewhat larger gusset as you described. That whole general area of the build was a real pain-in-the-backside as I recall. Added a whole n ...