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  1. weirdjim

    OK, so my steam VSI is tango uniform ...

    The airplane has been sitting in a reconstruction phase for over 18 months. THe VSI has gone TU, reading 5000' down just sitting there. I'm sure the AI and the rest of the steam instruments are about as happy as the VSI. I've got an elderly 182A. I'm not all that shot up about stuff that...
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    Finding a shop to install non-TSO equip.

    And if some of knew what a KN64 is you might get an answer. Jim
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    Will I be reported???

    ..."In an emergency, a pilot may deviate from any rule in this chapter in order to deal with the emergency..." (with the caveat that (s)he may have to explain how the situation deteriorated into an emergency.) Jim
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    Piper Cherokee push to talk switch

    Oh, please, dear Lord, don't use PLUMBER'S acid paste flux. Be sure it is ROSIN based flux or you will be replacing a lot of parts and wires in a few years. Jim
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    Piper Cherokee push to talk switch

    How about we be specific. 0.025 for fine and delicate work on SMT devices. 0.032 for general work. 0.050 if you are doing air duct "plumbing{". Jim
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    Piper Cherokee push to talk switch

    How about 60/40 Tin/Lead solder instead of all lead solder. That all-lead is WAY too soft for permanent joints.
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    Piper Cherokee push to talk switch

    Well, no. I thought you had a need for wire, not that you were asking for it in the case you MIGHT need it some day. Now, how much do you NEED for a current problem? Jim
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    Piper Cherokee push to talk switch

    Got the box. You only forgot one thing. How many feet/meters do you need? Jim
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    No Exercise Weight Loss

    Excuse me, Salty, and i love you like a brother, but you are dead wrong. Calories are the ONLY things, and there are no good/bad calories. Science work, no matter that the White House says.l Jim
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    5 watt "12 volt" solar panel

    (Chuckle) I guess you really don't know too much about me, do you? But thanks anyway. Jim
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    Tire Choices

    That's an interesting heresy. Mind telling us where you came up with the data on this assertation? Jim
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    Owner assisted or experimental installs

    I specialize in do-it-yourself ADSBs by mail order. So far after roughly 100 of them in service, I have yet to have a customer tell me that they let the magic smoke out. Jim
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    Tire Choices

    :yeahthat: :cheers: Jim
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    Piper Cherokee push to talk switch

    At the risk of starting a flame war, you can't use hardware store wire, but you don't need "aviation specific" wire either. As I said, you can use 2-wire cable with a plastic outer sheath or plain #22, either of which is available at Fry's or any other electronic store. But if you use the...
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    Piper Cherokee push to talk switch

    22 or 24. A couple of thoughts. If you have the room, use 2-conductor cable with a plastic outer layer and you will never have to replace it in your lifetime. Either way, be sure you use stranded wire. Solid wire was not meant to flex and will break after a few back-and-forths of the control...
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    Piper Cherokee push to talk switch

    Three sections on a mic plug. Tip, ring, and shell (proceeding from end to bottom, in that order). I was taught which was which by a dirty old man and cannot repeat his words here. Tip (end) is PTT. Ground the tip and the radio transmits. RIng (the center one) is microphone audio to the...
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    Here's one for all the experts.

    I refuse to have a battle of wits and experience with an unarmed man. Jim
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    Finding a shop to install non-TSO equip.

    And by recent FAA policy in the ADSB arena, those approvals can be extrapolated as approved data on a simple 337 to every single engine land aircraft in the fleet. Jim
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    Antenna location

    The reason for the "bent" wire is in a real belly-whomper the straight antenna has every chance of contacting the ground. If you are LUCKY it will destroy the antenna. If not lucky, it will peel back skin where the antenna is attached to the fuselage. For the oil problem, a very simple and...
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    Here's one for all the experts.

    "The length is precision engineered". No wire antenna is precision engineered. Do you know that almost all ELT manufacturers (ACK excepted) don't even have an antenna pattern range? Do you have a CLUE what the VSWR of that antenna is at the operating frequency or what VSWR even means? And if...
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