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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, July 15, 2007

Crank Basics -IV

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The crankshaft goes down to the magnaflux shop bare. That’s so they can peer down into the Woodruff keyways and the bottom of the groove fo...
Saturday, July 14, 2007

Crank Basics - III

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(Be sure to read Crank Basics I & II) Crankshafts from China, supposedly forged, supposedly of SAE 4340 steel, having been coming into t...
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Monday, July 9, 2007

Crankcase Ventilation

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The Volkswagen engine holds exactly 2.5 liters of oil, which ain't much. Modify the engine for full-flow oil filtration you could count...
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Wednesday, July 4, 2007

AV - Chugger's Progress - III

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The ribs of a fabric covered wing are interesting things, their role in the lore of flight often as confused as the plot of a Russian novel....
Monday, July 2, 2007

AV -- Fitting the Dynamo's Upper Bracket

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A couple of weeks ago I posted an article... http://bobhooversblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/av-reliable-ignition.html ...showing how to install ...
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Sunday, July 1, 2007

VW - Techy Operations

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(Ed.Note: The following exchange took place a few years ago on RAMVA, the Usenet Newsgroup devoted to air cooled Volkswagens.) > All I m...
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Friday, June 29, 2007

AV - Midnight Turning

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It’s twenty-three minutes past midnight, Thursday the 28th of June, 2007. (Better make that Friday the 29th.) I’m just out of the shower,...
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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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