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I recommend getting a higher power compressor with a hose since airing tires is only one use. As I mentioned you will need to add air to the nose strut and clean the engine with a spray wand at annual at least. This requires a hose. And riveting for repairs needs air also. And spraying touch up...

Not the valve stem as I tested it and no, it's, not a lot of air but since the other tire only loses 5 PSI in six months I prefer the lower loss. My plane can sit 6 months without flying and pushing my plane around in my hangar meanwhile is very affected by tire pressure. At 88 years my pushing...

I need about 100 PSI for the nose strut.

Thanks, I will try the Micheline. Rim air leaks would have to get beyond a tube first. Maybe you are thinking of tubeless tires. The leak is about 15 PSI in 6 months.

Probably from Harbor freight or Costco, if they offer. I have a large oiless one because I often paint my cars and my airplane.

One of my 6:00-6 main wheels has a tube with a chrome ornamental ring around the valve stem and looses air much more slowly than the other two. Anybody know the brand or type. I would like too get one before splitting the wheel.

How many hours on those cylinders? I would expect more rotation the newer the cylinders because as the cylinders wear out of round due to crankshaft induced side thrust the more the rings be "locked" in place.

I had a 6:00-6 main tire flat due to a torn valve stem on a Sunday and no airport shop open. Went to a garden supply and bought a new 6:00-6 tube, put it in, aired the tire at a service station put the wheel back on and flew home. Only difference is that the garden tub valve stem is on the tire...

Weight for my C-210 is almost never a problem as it has a huge CG range. I have been to a DA of 23,000 feet with moderate weight to stay above icy clouds and cruising quite well about 160 MPH TAS. Imron is very tough and I doubt it will crack. I also painted the Caddy in the pix twice by scuff...

When I personally stripped and painted my plane (it's in the pix) the only mechanic thing done was to sign off my re-installation of control surfaces and balancing. The balance was OK which is just what you would expect. My plane has never been re-weighed since it left Cessna and probably never...

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I have never tipped FBO personnelle in 69 years of flying. And nobody has ever given me a tip. Wages si, tips no!

I do know of wrecked, rolled over pickup trucks that no shop in the U.S. would touch that were repaired and painted in Mexico that came back looking almost new. Around here the great majority of body shop painters are ethnically Mexican so it seems to make sense. Hopefully there are members that...

Scuff sand and paint it your self or hire a local automotive painter to spray. Airplane paint is auto paint. In my case I stripped myself which took about a week and then sprayed it with Imron. This was in 1981 and the paint is still OK except that I needed to touch up on wing leading edge due...

I have noticed that there was a noticeable drop in CHT on new cylindres indicating seating, usually in under an hour. Actually full breaking in may take quite a few hours indicated by a stabilization of oil consumption. Also it's better to run at full power than lower than 75% to break in. In...

I still say oil change oil change times are arbitrary since nothing suddenly happens a certain number of hours so the not infallible manufacturers (if they were infallible we wouldn't have ADs.) simply pick numbers that are harmonious with our base 10 counting system, i.e. 100/2 or 100/4 in this...

Could you tape the two connectors together with fiberglass tape assuring their temperature will be the same? On my plane the cylinder temperature does not use a thermocouple but a temperature sensing probe screwed into the cylinder head in which its resistance varies with temperature so no...

Make sure it's not kinked. The best oil might be a penetrating lubricant. The penetrant will help it get through the outside of the cable (Assuming it is not covered.) and then the penetrant evaporates leaves the lubricating film. When oil gets old the light ends evaporate leaving really stiff...

Remember, oil and filter change hours are arbitrary. So much depends on type of flying. My IO-520a manual originally said change at 75 hours and I just have a screen.

My IO-520 dipstick was "wrong" too until I found that the tube it slips in was not seated all the way into its socket. That tube can hang easily up on the edge of the socket it goes into. Make SURE it's all the way in and report back.