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The $1,000 Paragraph
Builders; My 2022 conversion manual is 300 pages in length, but this really isn’t a good measure of its content. Here is a small example of what it takes to develop the content to fill several hundred...
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Anodized Aluminum Push Rod tubes, P/N 1602B, now in stock.
Builders: Over the years, suppliers is the Corvair world have offered aluminum pushrod tubes. I have owned sets before, but they had issues, predominantly being too thick walled at the top and...
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Oshkosh and Brodhead 2023
Builders; Here is my events schedule: Brodhead Wisconsin , Guest Speaker, 3pm Saturday 22nd. Will also look at cores and parts in a parking lot tour. Oshkosh Display starts Monday 24 runs through the...
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. An interesting look at the CNC models of the parts I have for the Corvair, assembled in 3D view. . . This view shows my Group 3200 5th bearing, which is supplied with the 2,850 kit engines I sell. ....
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Oshkosh and Brodhead 2024
Builders As I type this on April 14th, Oshkosh may sound distant, but it starts in 98 days, and I will be leaving to head north in 91 days, to first attend the Pietenpol gathering in Brodhead...
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Brad Boon’s Corvair powered 601HDS
Builders; Yesterday, Brad Boon of Wisconsin, took his first flight in the 601HDS he built. There are a lot of good elements to this, but let me focus on the one that matters most: He took 12 years to...
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Motor mount shipping 2024
Builders: Here is a short story to explain an quirk of shipping motor mounts by UPS. . The only way I have to ship motor mounts is UPS. When you go to order one from my website, The UPS automatic...
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Failure of incorrectly bushed connecting rod.
Builders, Here is a photo report on the Corvair Engine which mechanically failed after departing Sun n Fun. . EVENT: Zenith 601XL-B with a 2,850 Corvair departed SNF and climbed to 5,200′, The...
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Corvair “Supervised Builds” at my hangar
Builders: Here is background information on my very popular “Supervised Engine Build” program, which I run at my hangar in Florida, eight times a year. . DESCRIPTION: Eight times a year, I have...
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Contact and Communication
Builders: Please read these updated notes on contacting me, it will make communications much more effective and prevent delays. . BACKGROUND: When I started my business 35 years ago, the internet and...
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Out of my shop, May 24th-31st.
Builders, I will be out of my shop from May24th -31st. I am taking a brief motorcycle trip through Vermont and New Hampshire. I will not be covering builders calls, texts or emails during this week,...
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Special 18 Hour Oil Cooler Sale.
Builders, I came back from running errands today, and this box was in my car port. It is $6,400 worth of 10 row Oil Coolers. . I have already added these to the inventory. The price I have been...
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Fall Supervised Engine Building dates on products Page.
Builders, The 12 building reservations for the October-November- December Supervised Engine Build dates are now up on my sales section of my website. There is one building weekend per month, and there...
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Inventory Increase; Manuals
Builders, . I came home today from a 200 mile round trip to my anodizer, and these boxes were waiting for me. . In them are more Zenith Installation manuals and 2022 Conversion Manuals. For the first...
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Inventory increase, 5th Bearing Oil Lines, P/N 3501
Builders. . I took some time and made and packaged a half dozen #3501 5th bearing oil lines. Your conversion manual has a full description of this part. . This line feeds oil from the Gold oil filter...
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Starter brackets
Builders . Pictured below are a set of starter brackets, Part of my group 2400L starter system. I drove down to my Anodizer yesterday to pick them up. They are made on precision CNC equipment,...
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Oil Coolers Back in stock.
Builders : . After briefly being out of stock, I have 10 plate oil coolers back on the shelf, in inventory, ready to purchase . . 2801 Heavy Duty Oil Cooler , WW. .
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Looking for a Zenith 601XLB/650 Airframe for sale.
Builders; I am looking for a Zenith 601XLB/650 airframe for sale, to have as an in- house test bed and demo aircraft. . I’m going to use the aircraft for two purposes. First it will allow me to...
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Pietenpol W and B calculator
Builders: If you go to the menu of my website, under the heading “more”, there is a new page, and it is a downloadable spreadsheet which functions on the very complex algorithm which will allow...
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House call to EAA Chapter #534
Builders; Yesterday, “Uncle” Gary Coppen and I left at daylight to head down to the Leesburg FL airport to put in a ‘Corvair House Call’ at EAA Chapter #534. They have an Aircamper project and a...
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