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  1. garrywarber

    Easy Riser plus

    Selling out everything in a mass. Enough Easy Riser parts to make close to 3 EZ's containing one never built kit. Engine stuff, 3 plan sets, supercharger book, etc., etc. E-mail for photos, and more description. Price is $2900.00, pick up in Michigan near Manistee.
  2. garrywarber

    supercharging a two stroke

    When the US military was moving to multifuel engines Limbach experimented with making the L275 run diesel/jet fuel. They did it by placing a heat retaining plate up in the head. The L275 design is practically identical to the Konig 460 3-cylinder radial. If you want to experiment perhaps you...
  3. garrywarber

    lots of Easy Riser stuff.

    Got old and ill, so am selling out of ultralight flying. Have lots of Easy Riser stuff, but the interested party must come look it all over in my hangar and haul away themselves if bought. No bit by bit sales. Not going to be a give-away deal either. I live a ways east of Manistee, Michigan.
  4. garrywarber

    Cheap Welding Helmet, Auto Darkening, for Stick and Wire Welding

    At least you jumped in and gave it a try. Looks like a puddle-control problem (no joke, honest). Welders this neck 'o the woods call that turkey ****.:whistle: Grind off and go at it again?
  5. garrywarber

    In one pciture, why I never, ever, ever want Dual Instruction

    Restore your Weedhopper first. While doing that watch Chotia's flight instruction videos many times on YouTube. Weed's were delivered with instruction tapes that buyers learned to fly them with. Always enjoy your posts. On the graphic, I advise selecting a thinner nose-picker and let the...
  6. garrywarber

    The big video topic

    Went to your Follow Me vid link. Very graceful flyer; I now understand why you like the design. Like a Chotia Gypsy. A set of 3/32 plywood stitch and glue floats on it would be handy...
  7. garrywarber

    Chotia Gypsy

    Watch the old video on YouTube. Chotia found that what people say they want and what they actually buy are two different things. He designed Gypsy because of popular demand, but pretty much all he sold were Weedhoppers. Gypsy out performed Weedhopper in every way. Wish I could have scored two...
  8. garrywarber

    The price of land for an air strip: DISGUSTING

    That is really great, but the requirements are stricter. Where choppergirl lives ultralights are not aircraft as far as the FAA is concerned. She could quite likely fly her "vehicle" out of the narrow railroad grade with no problems as long as she does not fly over any "densely populated...
  9. garrywarber

    The price of land for an air strip: DISGUSTING

    Abandoned railroad right of ways might be a good place to look for land. We got a bunch of land donated to a couple of municipalities here for the 'rails to trails' project. Some of the land is wide enough and aligned with the prevailing wind to make a nice airfield. Unfortunately the cities...
  10. garrywarber

    The price of land for an air strip: DISGUSTING

    Before we bought our $1500 an acre place surrounded 80% by federal forest that option was considered. We went with the land instead, and now that I am older than its dirt I think the other might have been wiser. There is a lot of work to make and maintain your own grass strip, but the...
  11. garrywarber

    Losing lbs and making it legal.

    I have two Limbach L-275, and they seem to work well with chainsaw(?) parts on the ignition. It appears the small aluminum flywheel was installed mainly to enable the recoil-start unit to work. I don't know what the parts are from though. The flywheel retains the cooling fan-blades, which...
  12. garrywarber

    Phase 3 Eclipse

    No, no offense. Just weary of the subject. Perhaps it is "Snowvember..." Perhaps it is my becoming an embittered old bastard. Sorry for the confusion. Hope you guys analyze how the Eclipse eclipsed all the others in strength, lightness and performance while I lurk and read.
  13. garrywarber

    Phase 3 Eclipse

    Back in my ruder and cruder days I would answer "no way in smoking hell." Now days I am saying "my interest was purely historical." Next time I search info. I think I will try someplace else. My ultralight interest is for things much simpler. I have two "projects" I am trying to sell...
  14. garrywarber

    Phase 3 Eclipse

    Looks like you have a copy of "Ultralights and Microlights of the World" also. The poster I read the posts from in VULA said the wing was covered with a slip-on cover like a sock, and they were laced together in the center. Also that the designer got in trouble passing the other ultralights in...
  15. garrywarber

    Phase 3 Eclipse

    Yes, as much as I believe anything I read, especially on the internet. I have heard from a group owner and long-time guy in this stuff, and he talked to the designer at the early-eighties Sun 'n fun he was at. The guy did chin-ups hanging on the wings. The plus and minus numbers were actually...
  16. garrywarber

    Phase 3 Eclipse

    Just a FYI for all the interest... :-) The designer is alive and well and still working at his firm in Detoit, MI. He still has the plans, but is stopped by strong liability concerns. The prototype had problems, and the second design was never made. He prefers it to remain as is. Yahoo...
  17. garrywarber

    Where are the instructors?

    Give, h..l(!), I am ready and willing to pay. I have been looking for years for instruction in ultralight. Not only is there none in driving distance, there are none I have found at all. I keep looking. I have heard of a possible one-week intensive program in an adjoining state I am...
  18. garrywarber

    Fixed gear amphibian?

    On my ultralight when the floats are fitted the nose-wheel is removed. Sounds like I may as well forget the floats on grass. Devising even simple wheel retract mechanicals is more than my interest level in that project.
  19. garrywarber

    Fixed gear amphibian?

    From what I could find on YouTube I do believe I best have a couple wheels sticking out of the floats a bit. Interesting thought, briefly.
  20. garrywarber

    Fixed gear amphibian?

    I have an ultralight that has floats (and wheel gear that needs replacing), and was wondering if I could do that. Perhaps add a layer of Kevlar or a high-density plastic skid? Both? My field is grass; I suppose I would need to vary landing spots to prevent bare areas, or do the floats not...
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