Flyinfool

I am so happy that you are smiling about that light dusting that you have received. I am so proud to have had multiple mentions in that nice video.

If there was as much sludge as you said, I would plan a second fluid change after a couple of hundred miles. If the new cover does not have one, epoxy in a rare earth magnet to grab small iron particulates. I add the magnets to my trans at the first oil change also, and I have a magnetic drain plug for all of my engines. But then I tend to drive a vehicle till the wheels fall off.

I am so cornfused now. I may just have to set it to spin. Either that or just harass @cowpuc some more.

So if I remember my geography correctly. West Virginia is Northwest of Cudahy. OK, dialed in, get ready........

It's just a slight tweak to the left to get some of this loveliness up to you @Bubber.

Lots of deer stories from this hunt. Many good laughs for years to come. But to hard to do on my phone while on stand. It is hard to see in the pics but that poor pole is holding up a 10, 8, 6, 5, and a 2 pointer.

I am up in deer camp. We are averaging 3 inches of beautiful snow per day, AND averaging a buck a day to.

Your Welcome. Soon I will be up nort checking on that backdoor that @saddlebum has propped open. And filling my freezer with some nice fresh dead deer. Ideal hunting is a continuous snowfall that lasts for the full 13 days at the rate of 1 inch of snow daily. Then the deer don't stand a chance.

So you like this new "High Tack" formula. It was a surprise just for you. Chocolate colored from leaves mixed in is better than Banana colored snow......... Just sayin....... Besides, I believe it was your own words that said to "LET ER RIP"

Its almost all gone now...........

This was a bout 3 blocks due east of my house. The puppy had her very first experience with snow this morning, I wish I had thought ahead and had a video camera ready. I opened the door and she went into full freak mode and was hiding behind me and barking at the snow. It took quite a bit of coaxing / dragging to get her to venture out into the great white death. Then she was doing that funny walk where she is trying to not let her feet touch the snow. After about 15 minutes she seems to like snow as much as I do.

It is so lovely, I feel I just have to share it with everyone. Even @cowpuc.

I could not help but to have a big smile today. I rolled out of bed after the stupid alarm woke me up to get ready to head out to the slave shop. When I walked past a window and then there it was, right there in front of me, The whole world had turned this lovely shade of WHITE. Yea SNOW, that's the stuff, we got our first snowfall of the season. I have been smiling all day so far.

The even better option is if you buy your gaskets for the job through member @skydoc_17 he has a kit with tool, feelers, and shims that he will loan out. Contact him for details. I was selling valve tools that I made to members for a few years. There are a lot of members that have one. It might cost you lunch and/or a lot of chatting to borrow one and have a helper for the job.

As promised here is a pic of the Release mechanism. Of course it took longer and was more work than I expected.

You MPG will be highly dependent on a lot of factors. Total weight rolling down the road, Aerodynamics of your load, Weather, How much steady state speed vs changing speeds, terrain, there are just some of the big things that will influance you MPG change with a trailer. For instance. Me one up and no cargo I get 39 MPG, add the trailer, good weather, fairly flat terrain, and I drop to 35. Add in some crappy weather and getting in a hurry and I was down to as low as 17 MPG average for a full tank of gas. Same roads, same total load, same aerodynamics.

Even though I have been flying these fool things for more than a half a century, It is a real possibility that I will also make a big smoking hole in the ground. This is so new, I have yet to find anyone in the USA that is flying something like this. I have no one to ask questions to. I am inventing everything as I go.

That was drawn using Inventor. I now have it all built, just painted it this morning. Tomorrow I will final assemble it and post a pic. I did come to the realization that it did not need the lightening holes. This is an anchor, weight is not a bad thing. The big holes would look cool but are a lot of extra work to make.

On the bike the start switch provides the ground to engage the solenoid, the solenoid is wired hot. The Ford type is expecting the start switch to provide +12V, that is why the case is grounded. The ford type will work but you have to be careful to wire it correctly and may have to insulate the case from ground, and connect a separate wire to ground, or you could let the magic blue smoke out of something.

It might be a real attention getter to see a bike going down the road with no driver. As long as there is some kind of a locking mechanism to hold the chair and driver from moving, and all of the safety stuff works, I don't see why not.

SSSHHHHHhhhhhhh............ Don't tell @cowpuc all of my secrets........... I had him believing that this was just a really cool toy. This will allow deliveries at 250 MPH.......

You da man Puc, You are always there when needed. But just how dangerous is it to yell FIRE in a crowded room including a VP and a slew of SS????

OK Just how tall is this bike when on the ground? Th HF trailer that has been very popular for converting to MC use has a 40" wide bed and then the wheels stick another 9 inches out each side for a total width of 58 inches. If the bike were laid down on this with the bikes wheels straddling the trailer wheels, how wide are you looking at?

I had to drive a car home that had a broken clutch cable once, that was interesting. There is a company that makes radial engine motorcycles. http://www.jrlcycles.com/home.html

Well the silly Docs interrupted me again. BUT I am now back on track once again. I have not done much to the plane its self, this time. For now I am working on designing and building all of the ground support equipment that I will need to make it run and to get it in the air. This aircraft has no landing gear, that would add extra weight and drag so they are not used. That means it will have to get "launched". Launch will be accomplished with 5 strands of bungee cord that each strand will be 1/2" dia and 30' long. This when stretched out will give a pull of around 150 - 170 lbs! this will be connected to a hook on the bottom of the airplane via around a 30 foot heavy fishing line. This means that since the airplane will weigh about 14-15 lbs, there will be about 10 Gs of acceleration to get it up to flying speed. To hold the airplane in position I have designed and am building a release mechanism with a trigger to let it go. This part has had a lot of welding and machining already, it is made of all steel. Another part that I am working on is the ignition system, I need to be able to fire a spark plug with a continuous spark. To accomplish this I have a small 12V battery, an old fashion ignition coil with built in ballast resistor, a condenser, and a DPDT relay to act as the points. I will wire the coil of the relay in series with the NC contacts of the relay. This way when the coil energizes it will break the connection, and when the connection breaks the coil will let go and the contacts contacts will close again, energizing the coil, and the cycle will continue at around 250 times a second. The other set of contacts will be powering the ignition coil primary side, and there will be a ground wire and a high tension wire going to the spark plug on the engine. This spark is only needed to get the engine started, once running the plug wires are disconnected and the internal heat of the engine will keep it running. Of course there will be proper switches and fuses in there also. The next part is that to initiate the start I need to blow a fuel air mix into the front of the engine. Air will be supplied by a small portable pancake compressor running off of an inverter. The fuel will be propane from a small 1lb cylinder. I will need to have an adjustable regulator on the propane so that I can dial in the correct fuel air mix for combustion. on the blow gun for the air will be a second trigger valve to also turn on and off the propane. For the propane valve I am using a thermocouple switch from a Mr Heater portable heater and just leaving the thermocouple off. These valves have the button to keep the gas flowing while you are waiting for the thermocouple to heat up so it will make a convenient push button propane valve. I guess I will be busy all winter, But at some point once I get enough ground support stuff built, I will mount the engine on a test stand and start learning how to make it run. If handled wrong there is a good chance of blowing fire out the tailpipe. I do not want to burn down the airplane before it even gets a chance to fly.