Recent content by 455 Bravo Uniform

Normally I’ll start a butt between 6p to 12a depending on size and when the meal is. Today I felt like trying a smoked meatloaf which I’ve never done or had. Put a butt on the lower grate of my WSM and meatloaf on top at 2pm. Ate meatloaf at 5:30p, butt went on top crate after dinner. The...

If you have a significant other that doesn’t fly with you much, when ADSB recognizes that your tail number is airborne, a light goes on, then a mechanical arrow or pointer-finger points to your position. Maybe the color of light changes depending on your distance. If it’s nearby, like almost...

I bought mine from the local Walmart store. A large spring steel shade for the rear, two pairs for each side window, and an accordion style for the windscreen that I trimmed to fit.

I’m out in 3 weeks. Got so many hobbies and business ideas and some less serious work options that I don’t know what to do. I’m taking the summer off for now. Will figure it out soon.

Do you remember geometry? (I didn’t ask if you liked it, lol). Remember 90 degree angles? Just think of a pizza with 4 big slices, start from the top with zero and go clockwise. Which quadrant or slice of pizza are you or the wind coming from or heading? If you can’t math in 90s, how about...

If no FAA medical necessary: Are you concerned that flying too soon will be detrimental to healing or trigger an event? Otherwise, what is the difference between 5 months vs 7 months? If you have good decision making to continue aviation, then fly when you feel good enough, whether that’s...

Mo’ sausages.

Do you have a mechanical HSI? Like a KI-525? If so, it is likely your HSI. It has a lamp and a sensor with a window on the heading bug that sends a signal to the AP to make sure you’re on heading. If the sensor or lamp is bad or dusty, it’ll keep hunting right. I’m not home at the moment...

No button pushing, everything you need is on one screen, and no need for 2 units. JPI is that option if that’s what you like/want. I went non-primary for redundancy. Don’t care about clean panel. With the JPI, all the harnesses are there. Garmin you or your tech will have to build them...

I do understand. I still work for the entity that owned Octel before we sold it in 1997. I said whether it makes a difference or not, I do not know. And neither do you. It’s not a massive change volume or mass-wise, but it doesn’t have to be to make a big performance change. That’s just...

Dear Pinecone: Each of the other components increase as a percentage when you take one of them out. I’m too tired from work to explain it, but happy to do so later. Whether or not the changes make a significant difference to the valve issue, I do not know. Best Regards, 455 Buick

No sir. Different percent and mass per volume if you pull the TEL out.

Are you saying light detonation can possibly cause valve seat sinking? Without curling a top half rod bearing or breaking rings, or other havoc first? I never hear or read about that as an effect of detonation, but sounds like an interesting theory. Upon quick search, there are about 2 dozen...

I’ll suggest that the UND test was n=1, statistically speaking. It’s not statistically valid, unless the engine makes, models, age of cylinder head manufacture (materials, suppliers, assembly) are varied. UND likely doesn’t have cylinder heads on their engines that are older or of different...

I’ve done bacon on the grill a few times. If the grill is full of grease, it’ll be prone to major flare ups that make this infeasible. Otherwise it’s an easy mess-free way to do it. I lay out strips, not whole.