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Malcolmbru(at)aol.com
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Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 6:50 pm Post subject: bungie cords

I am getting ready to replace my old ones do I need any special tools  mal

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experimental208nd(at)comc
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Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 7:03 pm Post subject: bungie cords

Just a BIG BOWL of Wheaties.

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roncarolnikko(at)hotmail.
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Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 7:05 pm Post subject: bungie cords

You'll need a four letter vocabulary, and a second pair of hands helps.  I 

got seven wraps single handed but was to tuckered cuss anymore when done.  

Ron NB Ore

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Subject: Re: bungie cords Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 22:48:18 EDT



I am getting ready to replace my old ones do I need any special tools  mal


	


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Ben-PA

Joined: 11 Jan 2006
Posts: 44
Location: Berwick, Pa

Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 7:39 pm Post subject: Re: bungie cords

Malcom,

I attached plans to make a bungee installation tool. This is used on Starduster and Acroduster biplanes. I am building an Acroduster with bungee gear and will need this tool, but my Kitfox 5 has the Grove gear. I don't know if this tool will work on the Kitfox so if you try it let us all know. The biplane guys use baby powder to help the cords slip.

Regards,

Ben

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Float Flyr

Joined: 19 Jul 2006
Posts: 2704
Location: Campbellton, Newfoundland

Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 1:45 pm Post subject: bungie cords

I can see every one enjoys putting the bungees on as much as I did.  I've

tried olive oil it was ok but the best thing was a piece of rope put through

the eye that I could use the reem on.



Any one with a dictionary of four letter expletives will find a good number

I devised while fitting bungees.



Noel



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Sjklerks(at)aol.com
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Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 2:05 pm Post subject: bungie cords

Do what I did after hours of cussing , call grove and send it  asap?

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Sjklerks(at)aol.com
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Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 2:16 pm Post subject: bungie cords

Instead of cussing like I did for hours and hours, Call grove and have them  send you the alum gear?

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lcfitt(at)sbcglobal.net
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Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 3:44 pm Post subject: bungie cords

Bungees have not been an issue for about 6 years here, but a wooden wedge 

shaped to fit between the top bulkhead tube and the bungee in the slot did a 

lot to keep each wrap from slipping.  I was able to wrap with bungee to 

spare.  Changing the bungees stopped being a major problem thereafter.



Lowell

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Lynn Matteson

Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 2778
Location: Grass Lake, Michigan

Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 3:59 pm Post subject: bungie cords

I only cussed once, and that was when I wrote out the check for the 

Grove gear. I've saved all the rest of the cussin' for the damned 

weather around here!



Lynn

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 I can see every one enjoys putting the bungees on as much as I did.  

 I've

 tried olive oil it was ok but the best thing was a piece of rope put 

 through

 the eye that I could use the reem on.



 Any one with a dictionary of four letter expletives will find a good 

 number

 I devised while fitting bungees.



 Noel

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Kitfox IV-Jabiru 2200
N369LM

Float Flyr

Joined: 19 Jul 2006
Posts: 2704
Location: Campbellton, Newfoundland

Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 5:00 pm Post subject: bungie cords

The last two years at about half past  December I took the Aerocet floats off and put the funny round things on, bled  the brakes and hoped for some decent ice conditions to get airborne.  As  far as I got with it was to do some slow speed taxiing on one of the aprons at  Gander International.  Last year I didn't get that far.   

  

 This winter I'm going to hold  off removing the floats until I see some pretty good ice.

  

 Why ice???  I like my landing strip to  be more than thirty miles long.... or is that wide?

  

 

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Float Flyr

Joined: 19 Jul 2006
Posts: 2704
Location: Campbellton, Newfoundland

Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 5:12 pm Post subject: bungie cords

I'm going to have a look at that.... Sounds like a good idea... Easy on the

fingers too.



Noel



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Float Flyr

Joined: 19 Jul 2006
Posts: 2704
Location: Campbellton, Newfoundland

Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 5:13 pm Post subject: bungie cords

Hope you saved some good ones for the weather around here.



Noel



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eskflyer(at)lvcisp.com
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Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 5:47 pm Post subject: bungie cords

It takes all of 15 minutes a side to install the bungees . If anyone  wants to know how email me personally and i will gladly let you know . It is no  different than finally learning how to fly the TD kitfiox and love it . took a  little bit of time and thought and just a few ty wraps and now its down to a  science. Also there is not one thing at all wrong with the bungee gear it is  light  and plenty strong Have over 600 hours on my baby now .

  

 Take care fly safe fly low fly slow fly fun fly KITFOX

 John Perry

 Kitfox 2 N718PD

 582/ subbie soon 

 TD/ Straight floats

 HOT PINK IVO inflight 

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Lynn Matteson

Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 2778
Location: Grass Lake, Michigan

Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 8:24 pm Post subject: bungie cords

I've got some dandy's saved up for this winter. This'll be my first 

winter of (hopefully) flying my bird, and I'm betting it's a long 

windy, snowy one. The trouble is, it seems to have started early around 

here, as we just set or tied State (Michigan) records for earliest/most 

snowfall. Folks in the Upper Peninsula got 20" yesterday, with 

Kalamazoo getting 6.5", and that's just 65 miles west of me.....wahhhh, 

I want to take my checkride!



Lynn

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On Friday, October 13, 2006, at 09:13  PM, Noel Loveys wrote:



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 Hope you saved some good ones for the weather around here.



 Noel



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Fox5flyer
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Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 3:33 am Post subject: bungie cords

Other than a little "dust" we didn't get any accumulation here Lynn,

fortunately.  I'm neither mentally, nor physically prepared to deal with

that crap yet, but at some point I guess I'd best start thinking about it.

The longer it holds off the longer I can still fly out of my strip.

Deke

NE Michigan

Mikado International Airport



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dave

Joined: 22 Sep 2006
Posts: 1382

Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 3:47 am Post subject: bungie cords

NO Ski Flying Deke ?



We got about an inch or so  here the last few days but 100 miles east  10 to 

20 inches I hear.

Ski flying is some of best flying you  can get  next to float flying and you 

get the extra performance boost from the cold dense air.  !



Dave

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Lynn Matteson

Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 2778
Location: Grass Lake, Michigan

Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 4:56 am Post subject: bungie cords

Yeah, same here, Deke, we got just enough to make footprints stand out 

for about an hour, then gone. But it was coming down so hard as to make 

viewing across the road almost impossible.

Hey, I just noticed that you have achieved "International"status at 

your home airport...does that mean I need to get endorsed for Class B 

airspace before expecting to land there?  : )



Lynn

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On Saturday, October 14, 2006, at 07:33  AM, Fox5flyer wrote:



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 Other than a little "dust" we didn't get any accumulation here Lynn,

 fortunately.  I'm neither mentally, nor physically prepared to deal 

 with

 that crap yet, but at some point I guess I'd best start thinking about 

 it.

 The longer it holds off the longer I can still fly out of my strip.

 Deke

 NE Michigan

 Mikado International Airport



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smokey_bear_40220(at)yaho
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Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 5:39 am Post subject: bungie cords

Oh wait.  Are those float attachment points on my Fox?

 I been using them for the snowplow.  



Ya got customs and ag there too Deke?  



No guys.  Nothing stops Deke.  I think he just isn't

winterized yet this year.



Kurt S.



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		   Other than a little "dust" we didn't get any

 accumulation here Lynn,

 fortunately.  I'm neither mentally, nor physically

 prepared to deal with

 that crap yet, but at some point I guess I'd best

 start thinking about it.

 The longer it holds off the longer I can still fly

 out of my strip.

 Deke

 NE Michigan

 Mikado International Airport

 

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alnanarthur(at)sbcglobal.
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Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 7:02 am Post subject: bungie cords

Hi All,

I can change the bungie cords on my Series 5 by myself in about 30 min. each.



I use zip ties and a cargo tie-down strap (the kind that when you pull it tight, the spring loaded friction lever holds it tight).



First, mark the old bungie across the top with a marking pen and remove it.



2. Lay out the old beside the new and transfer the marks to the new one, marking all the way around the new cord. Now with the new bungie cord,



3. make a loop around the gear and 



4. about a foot up on the free end form a "free end loop" and secure it with a zip tie.



5. Take the cargo tie-down over the fuselage carry-through tube and hook it to the "free end loop" .



6. With the cargo tie down, pull up on the "free end loop" till the first mark on the new bungie is on top, then secure the gear loop tightly with one or two zip ties.



7. Release and unhook the  cargo tie down and cut the zip tie on the "free end loop"  and make another loop around the gear.



8. Repeat 3 thru 7 till all gear loops are on and secure the final end loop of the new bungie on the post.



9. "Carefully" cut all the zip ties holding the individual gear loops.



I don't even break a sweat.  



Hope this makes sense.



 

 Allan Arthur

Kitfox 5, N40AA

Rotax 912s, Warpdrive 3 blade

Byron Airport, CA  (C83)  Hanger C8



 



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john beirne

Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Posts: 24
Location: Ireland

Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:32 am Post subject: Re: bungie cords

Hi Guys, 

where can i purchase a new set of bungies already made up with the nicopress fitting (for a Mark III)

thanks

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