The International Cessna 170 Association

I spoke with the Concorde rep yesterday at the Alaska aviation trade show. My question to him was, if you leave the master switch on and run the battery completely down, how many times can you do that and get away with recharging the battery back to 100%? His answer was, depends. Depends on how long...

For anyone wanting to rent a car for the convention, Damon at Soo Line Limo in Kinross, 906-0635-0427, www.soolinelimo.com, has a few Buick Encore SUVs for $77/day. July is peak season so early reservations are necessary and the rates are high but $50/day less than Enterprise. Damon will either deli...

Plenty of guys are going full digital. This is my nephew’s 1956 C180 that is full IFR, minimal but everything that is required. Two GI275s and engine monitor with fuel flow. Everything is STC’d. iPad with Foreflight for charts and approach plates. The nice thing about this is you can start with one ...

Great weather, excellent barbeque, and good friends.

cessna170bdriver wrote:The departure day for the convention is Saturday, July 22nd. If there’s an error published somewhere I need to get it corrected.

Thanks for clearing that up Miles, I had not looked at the agenda before my post.

I’ll plan on camping at Jay’s Saturday night.

I just made my hotel reservation at the Kewadin for the convention online without any problems. Looking forward to it! I would love to camp at Jay’s but the departure day of the convention, July 23, is the last day to secure the reserved group parking at OSH, so I’ll probably fly straight to OSH on ...

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Silver soldering is NOT the same as brazing and requires special solder. It is good for joining copper and brass but requires higher heat than lead solder plus special flux and the joint surfaces must be absolutely clean and completely fluxed for the joint to hold. It is much stronger than lead sold...

To measure the rudder travel, is there a recommended tool, or will have I have to build something to accurately measure it? Will a prop protractor used on top of the vertical stabilizer do the job? Iphones have a built-in level/inclinometer in the Utilities app under “Measure”, “Level” that is accu...

Selkirk makes pre-cut soundproof kits in 1/4 inch and 1/2 inch thickness available for Cessna 170, 172, 175, 180, 182, 185, 206 and 207 aircraft.

Pretty sure Spruce sells the bulk pieces.

GAHorn wrote: I have replaced my Land/Taxi and Nav and interior instrument/cabin lighting ALL are L.E.D.

George
Did you change your mind? Last time we discussed landing lights you were convinced incandescent landing lights were superior to LEDs.

I’m interested in your apparent change of opinion.

On another note, Tempest has come up with ANOTHER new gasket design that they say heals all the previous gasket problems. Don’t know if this is common knowledge or been discussed before but they sell a gasket kit with the “new” gasket and a crush washer on their website. Talking to the Tempest tech ...

Karl- I don’t know, oil resistant aircraft quality is all I know. I have posted pictures on my original post so you can get a visual of what was done. I was watching a guy assemble a new engine and happened to see this procedure. It later dawned on me why don’t the Tempest folks do this on their oil...

One of the truly nice things about having Piano switches, is not leaving the Master on. Just a quick glance at the switches confirms all are off. If any doubts, just run your hand under them. I've never left it on since buying the plane. There are those with piano keys that have never left the mast...

This is not advice, just an explanation of something I have seen done in a similar situation. A similar condition exists on some Jacobs engines that have had an auxiliary oil sump added to the existing engine oil sump. There are two large diameter hollow bolts that secure the aux oil sump with crush...