500-hour Inspection vs. Overhaul

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About every 500 hours, your magnetos need to be inspected and repaired as needed (IRAN) to keep them performing well. Some of this work...

Bob’s Donut Shop

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In my April 2021 column, I described making custom rivet nuts to replace self-tapping screws for the wing root fairings on my Jabiru. While...

Metal Magic: Riveting By Squeezing

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Best practices for driving round-head rivets with a squeezer.

Chattering Timers

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Back in November 1999, I sadly consigned my old battery eating “buzz box,” a WW-II 1940s-era mechanical doorbell-ringer magneto timer, to that big buzz...

Start Building Your Aircraft With a Subkit

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Deciding to build an aircraft does not have to be one big, final decision.

Hang Up!

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I have been flying my RV-9 for 14 years and a thousand hours. You would think that by now I’d have this figured out,...

Broken Battery Hold-Down Bracket

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This battery hold-down bracket was discovered in an RV-10 during a condition inspection. It is a very serious safety issue that probably needs no...

Metal Magic: All About Clecoes

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The Cleco clamp is the metalworker's best friend.

Installing and Maintaining Your Pitot-Static System

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The pitot-static system is usually one of those items appearing on your to-do list when you are at the point of being 90% done...

Oil in Line

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Look very closely and you will see liquid in the tubing. This is the manifold pressure line to the electronic ignition system. The fluid in...

In Case You Missed It

The First Liar

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Throughout the history of places where pilots gather—be it a hangar, lounge or friendly...

Archive: January 1992

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The pointy, provocative nose of the Berkut punctuated our heavily processed cover this month....

Drilling Holes for Fasteners

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Plunge into drilling accurate holes for fasteners in mating parts.

Where Do I Hook This Now?

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Making safety wire tabs for Lycomings.