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Offline Jeff XL79

Re: A little progress XL H-58
« Reply #705 on: August 06, 2024, 05:09:36 AM »
Charles, how did you set up your static air source?

Thank you 
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Re: A little progress XL H-58
« Reply #706 on: August 06, 2024, 08:52:23 AM »
Chuck, I have viewed nearly all your posts. Thanks so much. I am ready for rib number 7 and your pics help a lot. I too am confused some by the iron designs videos. I happen to have some 3/8" delrin rod and a small logab lathe.
What was your final pivot for the ailerons? Bolt, what size? or delrin?
Thanks again for much help!

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Re: A little progress XL H-58
« Reply #707 on: August 06, 2024, 10:11:17 AM »
Charles, how did you set up your static air source?

Thank you
Jeff
There's no need for a static source without any flight instruments except the surprisingly accurate Hall Windmeter..Here seen climbing out on  gorgeous morning.

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Re: A little progress XL H-58
« Reply #708 on: August 06, 2024, 11:29:38 AM »
Chuck, I have viewed nearly all your posts. Thanks so much. I am ready for rib number 7 and your pics help a lot. I too am confused some by the iron designs videos. I happen to have some 3/8" delrin rod and a small logab lathe.
What was your final pivot for the ailerons? Bolt, what size? or delrin?
Thanks again for much help!

I'm glad the build thread helps.. that was the plan.  :) I rummaged around in my Good Airplane Junk box and found 4 really long AN4 bolts. Cut them off to the proper length on the little toy lathe, and turned some Delrin bushings. Sorry for no detail, but at my age, that is stored in ancient never to be dredged up memory. Drilled a 1/16" dia hole through the heads for safety wire to a couple of (I think) #2 brass wood screws in the tip rib to hold them in.

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Re: A little progress XL H-58
« Reply #709 on: August 06, 2024, 11:19:25 PM »
Charles, how did you set up your static air source?

Thank you
Jeff
Radiant told me to just let it hang inside the cabin even though I told them it was for a open cockpit ultralight.  I decided to make an aluminum box about 3" X 3" and rivet it to the back of the instrument panel and stick the static tube into it with a rubber grommet friction fit around the tube.

Offline Jeff XL79

Re: A little progress XL H-58
« Reply #710 on: August 07, 2024, 08:00:03 AM »
Thanks Charles. I know that the Radiant instruments may seem extravagant for an Eagle but I'll likely never regret having the accurate and reliable information they provide. Also, unlike some of the repeat offenders here, I'm only building one airplane.  I'm going to make this one just what I want the first time. 

Thanks again. 

Jeff

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Re: A little progress XL H-58
« Reply #711 on: August 07, 2024, 03:52:53 PM »
I'm using the Tony Bingelis method - a closed tubes with little holes in the sides. I am still building so haven't tested it yet so YMMV.

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Offline Jeff XL79

Re: A little progress XL H-58
« Reply #712 on: August 07, 2024, 04:15:31 PM »
I'm using the Tony Bingelis method - a closed tubes with little holes in the sides. I am still building so haven't tested it yet so YMMV.

https://www.kitplanes.com/installing-and-maintaining-your-pitot-static-system/
OkDon, what kind of altimeter are you using?
Jeff

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Re: A little progress XL H-58
« Reply #713 on: August 07, 2024, 06:26:04 PM »
This is not an Eagle - it's for a Woody's Pusher, so it's the usual altimeter. Someday I'll build a Double eagle ---
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Re: A little progress XL H-58
« Reply #714 on: August 08, 2024, 04:20:52 AM »
Tube within a tube through the leading edge is great...  Never had one that hung under the wing like in those pics.  The port on the boot cowl or fuselage hasn't been the best for me.
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Re: A little progress XL H-58
« Reply #715 on: September 18, 2024, 04:17:45 AM »
Dusk patrol in T shirt and shorts.. life is good. :grin:

 

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