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occom(at)ns.sympatico.ca
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Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 1:02 pm Post subject: windshield thickness

I have a windscreen cut out from lexan that came with my Kitfox. It seems a little thicker than I would have expected and is a little awkward, what thickness is normal?

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dosmythe(at)cox.net
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Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 1:27 pm Post subject: windshield thickness

My 95 kit came with .093" (standard I think).  I have since replaced it with 

.063" but do see a little in flight flexing around where it touches the 

upper cowl.



Don Smythe

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Michel

Joined: 10 Jan 2006
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Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 1:33 pm Post subject: windshield thickness

On Jun 22, 2006, at 11:01 PM, Dave G. wrote:

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		   I have a windscreen cut out from lexan that came with my Kitfox. It 

 seems a little thicker than I would have expected and is a little 

 awkward, what thickness is normal?


	


My understanding is that it varies with the model and its Vne, Dave. My 

Kitfox model 3 with Vne 100 MPH has a lexan windscreen of 0.06"



Cheers,

Michel

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dave(at)cfisher.com
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Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 2:12 pm Post subject: windshield thickness

Dave,



I had a 1/8"  windshiled and just replaced with 1/8 Lexan.  Rock solid.



I just cut with my best tin snips that I just sharpened. I don't think it 

took more than 30 mins to cut it out after i traced the old one onto it .



Hope this helps .

Dave

PS  i has a 2 mil on another one but it was earlier model 2 and windshield 

have less of a angle than my series 4 and it did flex at times.



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mike
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Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 3:02 pm Post subject: Re: windshield thickness

I had 1/8 until this weekend.  Seems the hot weather took its tole.  Last night around 7 I went out the airplane and found a big crack from the wing on down.  I was in Richland and Jeremy at Titan was there to help me and we took and put a strip of aluminum down the window and rivited it together to get me home.  Very cool.  One fella wanted to duck tape the window, I didn't like that at all.  I took and removed the windscreen today and tomorrow will be getting some .093.  I believe the 1/8 is just to thick.

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roncarolnikko(at)hotmail.
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Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 6:57 pm Post subject: windshield thickness

I was digging through my paperwork and found where Skystar had once offered 

free rplacements of the 1/8 winshields with .093.  They determined 1/8 was 

to thick.  Ron NB Or

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Subject: Re: windshield thickness

Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 16:02:30 -0700






I had 1/8 until this weekend.  Seems the hot weather took its tole.  Last 

night around 7 I went out the airplane and found a big crack from the wing 

on down.  I was in Richland and Jeremy at Titan was there to help me and we 

took and put a strip of aluminum down the window and rivited it together to 

get me home.  Very cool.  One fella wanted to duck tape the window, I 

didn't like that at all.  I took and removed the windscreen today and 

tomorrow will be getting some .093.  I believe the 1/8 is just to thick.



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kitfoxmike

kitfox4 1200 912ul speedster

http://www.frappr.com/kitfoxmike





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