BTW my number is 765-860-0693

Thanks

Eric

Dennis,

I have still been gliding although due to bucketloads of rain over summer the conditions were n't very good. With the Zodiac grounded I've been back to driving to and from the gliding club. My glider now needs it's annual overhaul and conditions are getting milder as the temps drop for autumn so I'll bring it home for winter soon.

I managed to find some info on how to fit safety springs to Bing carbies here:

http://www.ultralightnews.ca/bing/912carbrackets.html

Some generic info here:

http://www.ultralightnews.ca/bing/index.htm

and I did read a note that said the Bing carby diaphrams need replacing every 300 hours.

My advice (after sad experience) is don't fly bing carby's without safety springs. I've been told there are other incidents of them falling off engines. I think in my case it may have been caused by over tightening the hose clamps as I'd had the carbies off to change the jets 10 hours previously.

It may be a good idea to post a notice somewhere here to let others know of the potential problems of not having the retaining springs fitted. I'm not sure how to do that.

Can you please tell me what caused the teeth to strip off your redrive belt? My aircraft is some years old now as it was sitting in a mostly built condition for ages. I've been inspecting the belt on my motor and it looks ok.

Lismore is near Byron Bay, the most easterly point of Australia and a well known holiday destination. It's unlikely they'll be stopping or preforming here as it's a smallish city.

Cheers,

Greg.

Dennis,

G'day. I'm glad to hear you're getting plenty of airtime in your Zodiac.

I spent around 20 hours dealing with overheating issues with my EA-81 and finally solved them by mounting the cabin heater on the top left of the engine (where you have yuor oil cooler) as an extra cooling radiatior.

The plane ran well for another 20 hours after that until one of the carbies came loose on final putting me into a paddock with clumps of grass 3 ft high.

This incident bent the front wheel back and damaged the firewall and under-skin as well as bending 2 ribs in the left inner wing section and damaging 2 prop blades. 

The plane's been sitting under cover in my back yard for over year now. I have removed the engine and stripped the damaged wing section. I've been too broke too buy the parts to fix it. I'm 90% decided to convert the Zodiac to a tail wheel aircraft to give it a better rough field capability. I'm prepared to put up with the handling issues as I can see the firewall easily getting damaged again by the nose wheel.

What's most annoying is that a friend had pointed out that I had no safety springs on the Bing carbies. I'd accepted the advice but hadn't gotten around to fitting them.

Cheers,

Greg.

Dennis,

It was nice to meet you at Sporty's. Hope your flight back to Indiana was not too bumpy.

Dave Gallagher

Hey there guys.

Good to see another CH601HD flyer. I see you have a partner, me too! My buddy Ray Nash wanted a CH601HD so I bought the other half of it. We were both flying Challengers at the time. He still has a Clipped Wing Special Challenger...and I now fly my CH750 more than the CH601HD.

Bob