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Flying, homebuilt airplanes, working with wood, riveted aluminum, welded steel tubing, fabric, dope and common sense. Gunsmithing, amateur radio, astronomy and auto mechanics at the practical level. Roaming the west in an old VW bus. Prospecting, ghost towns and abandoned air fields. Cooking, fishing, camping and raising kids.

Sunday, May 13, 2007

Valve Spring Tester

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Do-It-Yourself Valve Spring Tester By Robert S. Hoover © 2003 A Volkswagen cylinder head contains seventy-seven individual components, the m...
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Friday, May 11, 2007

AV - N666RH

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Guy comes by the shop hoping to bum me outta some ammo for his machine gun and finds me stitching a spar together with a gnu-matic brad-driv...
Thursday, May 10, 2007

Cam Hard = Chunkie Attacks

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Failure to properly prep the cam is one of the most common methods of trashing an engine. (Originally posted in 2003 after being rejected b...
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Friday, April 27, 2007

Drilling for Eight

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Almost as soon as I posted ' 4-into-8 ' (which should immediately precede this article) I began receiving messages saying the drill-...
Thursday, April 26, 2007

Stoning Your Rods

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Last Sunday after church I was chatting with an Eager Young Airman building a Volksplane. Started around Christmas, he’s just finished cove...
Saturday, April 21, 2007

4 -- into -- 8

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As originally designed the Volkswagen’s flywheel was located using four 7mm dowel pins. The pins were quite short, extending barely a quart...
Friday, April 20, 2007

Rainy Friday

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Gravity is silent. The stately tick-tock of the pendulum clock is the only sound in the shop, the lathes and mills lurking beneath their sh...
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No, not THAT Bob Hoover :-) (ie, Robert A. "Bob" Hoover from Tennessee and perhaps the best pilot in the history of flight.) The problem is that all Roberts get Bob-ed at birth and there isn't much we can do about it. When posting something about aviation I generally use 'R.S.Hoover' to prevent confusion.
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