I realize that I should have posted this yesterday, but there is still 6 hours left to get an email postmark in time. Today is the last day to pay for the UW-O dorm rooms in full for those of us with reservations. Midnight Central time. Jim Jim Weir (A&P/IA, CFI, & other good alphabet...

Back when I was working for the airlines, we used a burn salve called KIP (Kip Inc, North Hollywood CA) in both the airborne medicine chest and the hangar toolboxes. It was distributed by an outfit called Swift Laboratories (also in NH CA). It is the greatest thing since sliced bread and bottled...

For those of you who want a cheap knockaround digital voltmeter (multimeter, actually) Harbor Freight has them for $2.99 apiece (part #30756). Shipping is $6 PER ORDER minimum, so I'd probably get together with the chapter and order a couple of dozen to spread the shipping costs around. The...

Does anybody have an idea on how to make a tiny little vacuum pump on the order of an aquarium pump or so that will draw just a few inches of water? Preferably 110, but I can rig up a 12 volt supply if necessary. The reason I say this is that I'm getting ready to pack a fairly large number...

I have a relatively ancient Roland single-pen XY plotter (B-size, or 11" x 17") that has been sitting in the hangar wrapped in plastic for at least 15 years. It was at one time the top of the line and is accurate as you can make the pen line. It uses india-ink pens, and as I recall, you can use a...

My lady has just informed me that she would consider a complementary Triumph TR3 to our classic '58 Cessna 182 a good idea. She's willing to cash in her old Chevy on the Triumph...oil leaks and all...for a TR-3 of that era. Anybody got a lead on one of those old rascals? Jim

Hey, gang... Well, the Avionics BBS over on Yahoo was a spectacular failure. We had five posts in six months and we just let the board go away. There was a problem, though, that even as the administrator I found getting TO the board to be a royal pain in the tush. However, I get 8-10 posts a...

I'm about to start building the "furniture" for the hangar. After a lifetime of building "manly" workbenches out of DF 4x4s milled to take 2x4 crossmembers, and having the concomitant rot and deterioration of wood, I'm considering making the framing out of 1¼ PVC Schedule 40 pipe and fittings. ...

About a year ago, I posted that I just flat ran out of time to post my Kitplanes columns for download at www.rstengineering.com/kitplanes. I had three volunteers that said that they would take the raw data that I generate for the column, refine it, and post it for download. Three volunteers...

To make a long story mercifully short, RST is looking for a person to do the accounting function. While there are hundreds of thousands of beancounters in the area, there are darned few that understand that all small airplanes aren't yellow with a small bear painted on the side {;-) We don't need...

Sport Aviation (EAA Magazine), April issue, pages 110-112. The article shows a system of metal rod-stakes and the 3-part chain with the repair link in the middle. The article goes into some detail on how to make a 3-part chain with a repair link (pretty trivial to figure that out) but...

I'm starting my Oshkosh forum writing and I need to know if anybody has a spare commercial transponder antenna -- the kind with a BNC connector on one end and a little chrome BB on the other end, mounts in a single hole. I had three or four of them and have given them away over the years to folks...

I am very interested in buying plans for the Colibri MB2 or Pottier p70/p80 aircraft. Can anybody help me please. Jim Williams

Currently own and fly a Vans RV4 , I'm over 70 years old. I have always flown tail dragger's (40 years) Bi and mono, always wheel them on and off. If you don't fly a tail dragger your not ready trying.

I hope no one has posted this yet... Oh my god. Look at ebay auction ID#4574014226 I would normally say something witty, but I am speechless. Is it a scam? Perhaps an organic brain dysfunction? Or maybe this man is a brave new form of life being weeded out my Darwin...

Can someone please provide me with pinout information for an old 360 Channel King KX 170 NAV/COM? This in not the KX 170A or KX 170B version.

I am planning to replace a working KX 170 Nav/Com with a KX 170B and understand that it is not a simple slide-in job. Can someone tell me what must be done to accomplish this change-out?

Can anyone provide information concerning an all wood homebuilt design by Joe Lynden called the Aurora? I believe this to be a new British design.

Hi: I have a Lynx Micro System headset that I would like to adapt to GA plugs. The adapter is $105 +/- USD. This seems to be a lot of money for a foot of wire and 3 plug connectors. Does anyone know how I can make one. TAI, Jimmy

Hello again: Thank you. I got a lot of info on the UV degradation of windsocks. Have any of you had more success with one brand/material than another? I live in the NW hills of Connecticut which are at the base of the Berkshire Mountains and the elevation is 1020'. I spoke to the airport manager of...