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PZL compass repair - Tom ?
OK, my mechanic says I need a compass.
I told him the mountains haven't hardly moved at all, but he was unmoved as well. Tom, were you able to stop yours leaking ? Enquiring minds want to know, Thanks, Best Regards, Dave |
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Dave,
I've been using a small PZL now for 3 years with no leaks. It's actually my second one - the first also didn't leak, but the window got all blurry (UV, moisture, bugs, plants in the liquid?) so I had to replace it. But it didn't leak either. I do mount mine a bit differently, against the face of the panel, without using the supplied mount. Don't know if that makes any difference. And it actually came in handy once when the visibility was so bad here in S IL that I had to fly a compass heading to make it home. Nice to have to crosscheck the magic boxes. Kirk |
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PZL compass repair - Tom ?
Ya gotta love it. My compass needs "Depends".
Thanks ! See ya, Dave 5Z wrote: wrote: Tom, were you able to stop yours leaking ? Yes. I followed Bumper's advice from a different thread and got some Loctite Depend 330. I built a fillet around the threaded back and so far it's holding up. I also made sure to only fill it enough so the air bubble doesn't show in a normal attitude. -Tom |
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Also, what's the correct fluid ?
To avoid fogging the window or worse ? Thanks Tom ! A great memory: Vaunted glider-guider demonstrating instruments to Dave and friends in our infancy: "Here lads is how you how you top off a compass. Make sure you've got the right type of fluid. Here we use type XYZ, carefully filling with a syringe". Hard to recall which was more amazing - the numbers gently floating off the compass ball more or less intact like some weird power-point animation, or the look on said vaunted glider-guider's face... Remember Todd - you were there, right ? 5Z wrote: wrote: Tom, were you able to stop yours leaking ? Yes. I followed Bumper's advice from a different thread and got some Loctite Depend 330. I built a fillet around the threaded back and so far it's holding up. I also made sure to only fill it enough so the air bubble doesn't show in a normal attitude. -Tom |
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PZL compass repair - Tom ?
T o d d P a t t i s t wrote:
wrote: Hard to recall which was more amazing - the numbers gently floating off the compass ball more or less intact like some weird power-point animation, or the look on said vaunted glider-guider's face... Remember Todd - you were there, right ? Yes, a cherished memory, but somewhat before Power-Point animations. IIRC, at that time, we were still sneaking in and using the PDP-11 to play spacewar. When I was learning to fly gliders, I was sneaking in and playing spacewar on the PDP-1 it was originally created on 8^) |
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wrote: Also, what's the correct fluid ? To avoid fogging the window or worse ? I used compass fluid ordered from Aircraft Spruce: http://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalo.../repairkit.php Still have most of the quart left after filling the compass several times, so pint should do ya! -Tom |
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Yup, certainly before power-point but I couldn't
figure out how else to describe that effect. I was placing spacewar on an Imlac graphics system, IIRC predates PDP-11 but later than the PDP-1. We're turning into old farts. See ya, Dave T o d d P a t t i s t wrote: wrote: Hard to recall which was more amazing - the numbers gently floating off the compass ball more or less intact like some weird power-point animation, or the look on said vaunted glider-guider's face... Remember Todd - you were there, right ? Yes, a cherished memory, but somewhat before Power-Point animations. IIRC, at that time, we were still sneaking in and using the PDP-11 to play spacewar. -- T o d d P a t t i s t - "WH" Ventus C (Remove DONTSPAMME from address to email reply.) |
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PZL compass repair - Tom ? Bumper ?
Hi Tom - Two more questions:
Yours was definitely leaking out the threads in the back ? Loctite 330 costs more than our gliders. From the Loctite product data it looks like good-ole Loctite 243 is more appropriate in any case - What am I missing here ? Thanks for the help ! Best Regards, Dave 5Z wrote: wrote: Tom, were you able to stop yours leaking ? Yes. I followed Bumper's advice from a different thread and got some Loctite Depend 330. I built a fillet around the threaded back and so far it's holding up. I also made sure to only fill it enough so the air bubble doesn't show in a normal attitude. -Tom |
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