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rstone4(at)hot.rr.com
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Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 8:58 am Post subject: Canopy covers

Members,

      There is no point  or advantage in having a custom fitted cover made for your aircraft.  A  cotton blanket and a silver 10' X 12' tarp with grommets that you can tie 1/4"  nylon rope will work just as well as an expensive custom cover.  Also if  you have a problem as I did when I was living in California with birds thinking  your airplane is a toilet for their use, do the following.  Get a small  piece rabbit skin with the hair still on it and cut it out so it looks like four  legs and a head.  Put two eyes on the head and glue a piece of Velcro on  the bottom side of it.  Glue a piece of Velcro on the turtle deck of your  aircraft and you will not have any more birds sitting on your airplane and  taking a dump.  The idea is not really new, farmers have been using  scarecrows for years to protect their crops.

 The rabbit skin is the same principal and it  works

 Bob Stone, Harker Heights, Tx

 ZodiacXL

  

  

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Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 2:20 pm Post subject: Canopy covers

Please don't take offense with the following comments.  It's hard to believe, but on occasion, people on this list take my comments the wrong way   I admire the frugal nature of your suggestion.

  

 I saw the post many months ago, about the blanket and tarp idea, and also a "custom cover" using a table cloth with a soft interior surface.  The reason I didn't go with this option is I thought it would look like a tarp and a blanket!  Or a tablecloth strapped to my plane!  I didn't like the look of it.  SO, I went with the a custom, color matched cover from Bruce's Custom Covers.  He already had the template for the XL and it looks beautiful.  I liked it so much I went back for a prop/spinner cover.



 I liked the idea about the rabbit skin.



Phil Maxson

601XL/Corvair

Northwest New Jersey

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     Members,

      There is no point or advantage in having a custom fitted cover made for your aircraft.  A cotton blanket and a silver 10' X 12' tarp with grommets that you can tie 1/4" nylon rope will work just as well as an expensive custom cover. 

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rstone4(at)hot.rr.com
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Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 6:15 pm Post subject: Canopy covers

Phil,

      My  suggestion was for those who want protection for their aircraft and nothing  else.  You like a custom made cover with your aircraft tail number on it  for the same reason I have a gold emblem on my Cadillac.  The car came with  black tire valve screw on covers, and the hood ornament was silver but I had to  have gold.  

      The rabbit  skin really works if you have a problem with birds landing on your aircraft when  it is parked and craping on it whenever they feel like it. I made one up  when I had a Beachcraft parked at Meadow Lark Field, Hunting Beach, California  and it got craped on all the time until I put that "Scarecrow" on it and no more  bird crap.

      I am never  offended by people who have a different view point than I do.

  

 Bob Stone

  

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