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A word of advice: File proof of payment of the sales tax in your permanent files. I bought my plane in Virginia and moved to Maryland about 6 years thereafter. Maryland asked to provide proof of payment of the sales tax else I would have to pay sales tax in Maryland. Luckily, I still had...

A quick way to check your wheel alignment is to use a large T-Square and hold the T-square against the wheel and then look down the scale portion of the T-square like you aiming a firearm. It should be pointing about 2 inches in front of the opposite wheel. If not, that wheel is out of...

If you are trying to port internet from your phone hotspot to a router, consider buying a travel router and link that wirelessly to your phone hotspot and plug an ethernet cord into the travel router to your main router. I bought a travel router to pick up an Xfinity hot spot signal for my...

DMEs and the transponder use the same type of antenna, so it could be either. If you are having problems with either, it is a good time to upgrade the RG-58 coaxial cable to RG-400.

The Concord has exactly this type of terminals. There is a specified torque setting on the battery.

I saw some hacks on T-mobile devices where external directional antennas were connected with good results. Check YouTube. If you have one of the portable 4G or 5G T-mobile routers, you can plug in some MIMO antennas that increases signal strength.

If you need to change the terminals, you can get cheap hydraulic crimpers on Amazon that work amazingly well.

The 3m Dual Lock will hold up in high heat. Just ask anyone that has an EZ-Pass or Sun-Pass toll pass how many times their EZ-Pass has fallen off their windshield (none for me).

Some local high school students took a picture of their teachers license plate and taped it over their license plate and then did numberous runs through the local speed cameras. I thought it was funny at the time. Maybe do the same with the HOA board tag numbers.

You can get around those problems if you pick up one of the Travel Routers. These are fairly inexpensive but permits you to hide behind your own router with your one SSID and password with the option of connecting your laptop to that with Ethernet. I picked up one from Amazon and love it.

If this is just sharing data between two devices without the need for internet access, then pick up a travel router. Hook both devices to the router and then you should be able to share the data. The travel routers are fairly inexpensive and used by some travelers who have security concerns...

I always favored the HP because HP made the service manuals available online. With that, I was able to change out screens, hard drives, and the keyboard.

I have done several on my JPI 830 several times. You do want to record all your current settings in case something goes wrong.

I am fairly certain that the 730/830 has a lead for an alarm. Some owners connect that to a red light to flag the issue. You could also connect that to a Mallory Sonalert from mouser which sounds like a stall warning horn. These are fairly inexpensive.

I recently did the Arlo Ultra wireless camera and added small solar panels to keep the batteries charged. These have 4K resolution. You really want to make sure that you get a camera that does high resolution. How many times have you seen cameras recording events and the police saying that...

If you do get a 3D Printer, consider adding a Raspberry Pi based server [Octoprint] to control the print jobs. Add a web camera and you can watch progress remotely and it can terminate the job if it detects problems with the print. Octoprint is free software although donations to the developer...

You can replace your side windows but fairly certain that the front windshield is structural and has to be done by an A&P.

If you are having your altimeter replaced, may I suggest that you also replace all your vacuum hoses? Most of our vacuum hoses have never been replaced and they start dissentigrating on the inside and those particles start flowing through your instruments making the need to rebuild them more often.

I have done my Warrior and helped a friend do his Arrow IV. I prepared the attached notes. Hope they are helpful. My friend also replaced his wooden floor underneath the rear seats. He took the old floor to a local woodworking club and they did a fantastic job. They just moved the old...

These are the best and they are so cool to use. If any of your planes have wheel fairings, get that model and it will work with the non-wheel fairings as well. You will not need adapters for the individual models. https://acairtechnology.com/