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  1. Bill Volcko

    Limbach VW Engines

    Are there any HVX mods done?
  2. Bill Volcko

    Change.org: Urge the FAA to Address the Deficit of Ultralight Aircraft Instructors

    Good luck with item number 3. When I bought my Challenger 25 years ago, there was no A&P that would even talk to me much less inspect my airplane.
  3. Bill Volcko

    Fate is the Hunter!

    I read it for the first time about 6 weeks ago.
  4. Bill Volcko

    Parts Wanted vw 2180cc engine or similar 80-85hp

    I had Empi heads came with aerovee. Valves or seats warped after 40 hours or so. Had to pull heads and lap valves. So far so good since lapping.
  5. Bill Volcko

    Parts Wanted vw 2180cc engine or similar 80-85hp

    Off topic a bit... Who makes the best vw heads? I've got empi and they are not the best.
  6. Bill Volcko

    Change.org: Urge the FAA to Address the Deficit of Ultralight Aircraft Instructors

    Before the training exemption, there were many many many people who did not know they were stupid, and died trying to teach themselves to fly an ultralight. You don't know what you don't know. Bring back cheap ul training and uls will flourish again.
  7. Bill Volcko

    Change.org: Urge the FAA to Address the Deficit of Ultralight Aircraft Instructors

    In a recent article in Sport Aviation, the author pointed out many ways to buy an ultralight and hinted that you could then fly unfettered by the FAA. The big big omission in the article was instruction. Instruction was never mentioned. Good way to get people killed, like the bad old days...
  8. Bill Volcko

    Angle of Incidence Tolerance

    I'm assuming your wing chord is approx 36" Do the math, 1 degree translates to approx 5/8" to me that is excessive.
  9. Bill Volcko

    Are Mikuni carbs ice-proof?

    Ice like that, frost, is typical for a Bing in cold weather. When you shut down, the frost melts from heat off the engine, the drips down into the bowl where it later re-freezes into little ice bb's which then get sucked up into the main jet shutting of your fuel flow and the engine. I know...
  10. Bill Volcko

    Parts Wanted CPS California Power Systems Catalog

    Thank you. I really want a hard copy to take with me to the airport
  11. Bill Volcko

    "Hiding" the propeller

    What is your opinion of Hoffman feathering props? On a VW.
  12. Bill Volcko

    Parts Wanted CPS California Power Systems Catalog

    I am looking for an old school CPS catalog. I lent mine out and it never came back. The back of the book is a goldmine for Rotax 2 stroke info. I need one. Anyone willing to part with one?
  13. Bill Volcko

    Winches, Motorgliders, and Soaring, Oh My!

    I’ve soared mine for up to 3 hrs on a good day
  14. Bill Volcko

    Winches, Motorgliders, and Soaring, Oh My!

    Xenos motorglider!!!
  15. Bill Volcko

    Question for engineer type. Tapered gear leg.

    Car leaf springs are tapered. Different but yet the same?
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