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I go back to my comment of finding the cause before proceeding to bigger
band aids. For some reason, and the first to come to my mind is excessive
vibration, that fitting is wearing abnormally fast ...

I called Lockwood Aviation tech support this morning and told him my 503 brass oil injection cable barrel swedge had worn out quickly and asked if he had any ideas why. He dodged the question and sai ...

Tom, There's .002" difference between 5/16 and 8 mm, .3125 vs .3145. I'd base the decision on which is cheaper, a brass cable stop or a steel oil pump bell crank. If it were me I'd rather the sto ...

Jim, thanks for those ideas. I have thought about your idea, "With a smaller ball one could forgo the fork and countersink the back of the bolt thru-cable hole to provide a seat for the ball&qu ...

Well, I guess I'll go back to brass and hope for the best. I ordered 4 brass swedges so I can replace them every 20 hours or so I guess.

I was thinking of soldering the steel cable to secure it in the swedge using your method. The swedge is the only stainless part.

I only ever did this with brass. Did not know that you could solder ...

Thanks for that tip on soldering the swedge Richard! I am going to order one of those stainless steel swedges from Lockwood and do that. I feel a lot better about getting this done now.

Thanks Dennis. I ordered a cable splitter like that from Spruce. The parts places all seem to hold the information close to the chest on how the other end of the splitter connects to the throttle wi ...

Thanks for the ideas guys.

I was seriously considering removing the oil injection. I just had the engine resealed by a Rotax service center and asked his opinion on the cable and on removing the i ...

This 503 came from the factory without oil injection. At 80 hours I installed an injection system. The engine now has 136 hours so only 56 hours on this cable. You can see it is worn about 1/4 of the ...

Okay, I'll try the Rotax Engines List. Thanks

This 503 came from the factory without oil injection. At 80 hours I installed an injection system. The engine now has 136 hours so only 56 hours on this cable. You can see it is worn about 1/4 of t ...

Rex, here's a reply to my post on BCP that may help solve the mystery.

You might want to contact the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center on Elmendorf AFB. that's near Anchorage. They keep a chart of ...

Rex, I posted the location on the Back Country Pilots web site and asked if anyone knows anything about it. Some interesting replies but nothing definite yet. It seems to be a large cargo type plane ...

Your little tail wheel trailer is a unique idea. I like it.

It did give me a good excuse for not hearing her sometimes. Now she just says, "Do you have your earwigs in?"

On Dec 9, 2013, at 11:43 AM, "Tom Jones" <nahsikhs> wrote ...

Too many chainsaws and helicopters in my life have ruined my ears. I broke down and got hearing aids this year. The guy said I have moderate hearing loss in the frequency where children's voices are ...

Falcon is my agent. 830-257-1000

Private pilot rating flying under Sport Pilot Rules. 450 hrs total, 125 hrs kitfox IV tail wheel. $1,000,000 liability and $20,000 hull. $275 for the liability a ...

I still haven't heard back from Kitfox about my enquiry to purchase a manual.
Regards
Sacha

I haven't ordered anything lately but when I do I call and leave a message. They always called me b ...

My assembly manual from 1994 says 11.4 degrees.

Dave's files are from the later manual version...2003 I think...when they included rigging "reflex" or "negative" flap setting to ...