Pietenpol-List: no radio, no fly

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Pietenpol-List: no radio, no fly

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Original Posted By: "taildrags"
If I remember correctly, Jill bought a set of brass data plates from me a whileback. I'll have to ask her if she has them installed on her Piet.I was also pleased and happy to read Bob Coolbaugh's writeup in the newest BPANewsletter, where he recounts his hopping around the country in his beautiful"New Piet", Two-Two-Victor Yankee. I sold Bob a set of tail surface hinges awhile back, so I may email him to see how they are working out. Sounds like he'sputting plenty of time on them!--------Oscar ZunigaMedford, ORAir Camper NX41CC "Scout"A75 power, 72x36 Culver propRead this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... ___Subject: Pietenpol-List: no radio, no fly
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Pietenpol-List: Re: no radio, no fly

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Original Posted By: "aerocarjake"
Well, I tried. After months of not flying, I decided today would be the day nomatter what. I was wrong. The @#$%& battery pack and contacts on my ancientlittle Icom IC-A23 just couldn't make good enough contact for the radio to workand I'm based on a tower-controlled field. I did the next best thing I couldthough, which was to clean the windscreens, give the airplane a complete preflight,top off the oil, and fire it up. Started pretty easily.I taxied out to the pump and put 9.0 in the tank to top it off, then had a bitof a time getting it started again because I flooded it. I've learned to watchout when it's hot or it will flood. Got it started, taxied back to the hangar,and let the engine get good and warm. Ran it up for about 10 minutes, upand down in irregular stages through the RPM from idle to full static power, testedcarb heat and mags (everything good), and finally shut it down after gettingthe oil nice and warm. At least now the airplane is ready to pull out ofthe hangar and fly whenever I can get the radio back in service. I should probablyjust buy a better/newer COM or maybe go ahead and mount a battery in theairplane to provide power to the Icom through the external power jack insteadof using the AA cell piggyback pack. There are 8 dry cells in series in thepack, so that's a lot of contacts for the current to flow through and a lot ofcontacts that have to be sparkling clean to get best power out of it. Radiosand wires take a lot of the fun out of simple airplanes like this.--------Oscar ZunigaMedford, ORAir Camper NX41CC "Scout"A75 power, 72x36 Culver propRead this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... ___Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: no radio, no fly
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Pietenpol-List: Re: no radio, no fly

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Original Posted By: "taildrags"
Nice.... Sooner or later someone will power a Pietenpol with ELECTRICS and they'llbe in real tough shape if their batteries die!!!!!--------Jake Schultz - curator,Newport Way Air Museum (OK, it's just my home)Read this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... ___Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: no radio, no fly
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Original Posted By: Steven Dortch
Actually, I've got everything figured out and was going to install it years agobut my interest faded. I have a fairly small and light UPS battery that I wasgoing to wire to a simple 3-way cigarette lighter jack that I got at one ofthe auto supply places so I could plug in the portable intercom, GPS, or anythingelse I wanted to keep from hard-wiring. I have a windshield washer pump forthe smoke system and was going to permanently install that unit and hard-wireit through a fuse and a spring-loaded toggle switch on the panel so I couldreach it with a finger on my throttle hand when I want smoke.The battery will be constant loss since my airplane has no electrics, and I wouldkeep it on a trickle charge while in the hangar. I have the charger for italready. What I don't have is the interest in adding "stuff" to my airplane,although I may just bungee the UPS battery into the front seat and wire a 12VDCpower plug into it to power up the handheld to see how that's going to work.It should do the trick, although as I say, I'm overdue for a proper handheldand should look for one and be done with it.--------Oscar ZunigaMedford, ORAir Camper NX41CC "Scout"A75 power, 72x36 Culver propRead this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... __________
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Pietenpol-List: Re: no radio, no fly

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Original Posted By: "bdewenter"
Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Re: no radio, no flyBefore you trash your old handheld, try some corrosionx on the contacts. Itis pretty good stuff.________________________________________________________________________________Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: no radio, no fly
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Re: Pietenpol-List: Where I'm at

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