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lcottrell
Joined: 29 May 2006
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Location: Jordan Valley, Or
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 Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 11:11 am Post subject: First flying day of the year. |
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The weather finally abated enough for me to roll out the Firestar and test the new spacer that I got from R Girard several months ago. It has been on the plane, but the weather has either been too cold or too windy. Not tornado's thankfully, but close. I had been using the "pipe" type spacer that came with the IVO that I bought from Dennis S in 1997 when I first got the Firestar. The thread that someone started about spacers caused me to ask some questions about the one that I was using and the consensus was that I needed one with a little more contact surface to it. Before I took the old one off I ran the engine at idle to see how rough it was running, with the thought of seeing if one with a centering "knob" would smooth things out. I am pleased to report that the one made by Rick is just the thing. The workman ship is great and all that one could ask for. The engine runs a lot smoother, and every thing should be a lot more pleasant from just flying to video.
I made 12 landings and as usual the first one was as smooth as a baby's butt and the next 8 were dribbled all over the place. Finally at about the 10th one they smoothed out.
Hope every one has come through all the crappy weather in the South and East with no damage to you and yours.
Larry
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John Hauck
Joined: 09 Jan 2006
Posts: 4639
Location: Titus, Alabama (hauck's holler)
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| Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 1:49 pm Post subject: First flying day of the year. |
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The engine runs a lot smoother, and every thing should be
a lot more pleasant from just flying to video.
Larry
Larry C/Kolbers:
That is good news. I never had much confidence in the tube
type prop spacer since the first one I saw that IVO
introduced at Lakeland many, many years ago.
john h
MKIII
Gulf Breeze, Florida
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