Fairchild Club Forum

'I have been up to 11,000


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'Herb - I would use the larger one to be sure that you have enough side clearance for the spacer which goes behind the prop hub. I have also seen crank shafts on some planes which come through the nose bowl a little off center. Mark Denest [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]'

'Hi Steve and Kevin o.k. - Fairchild Aircraft of Hagerstown, MD. was the only factory building 26's here in the U.S. Aeronca, St. Louis Street Car, and Howard built 19's an 23's. Subcontractors like Moller Piano and Organ Co. in Hagerstown built wings and center sections. The method that Fairchild u...

'Hey Bob, same here. What we have done in the past up here is this. First we adjust fuel and oil pressure. We like to see about 60-65 lbs. on the oil. It usually goes down about 5 lbs. after the first hour. After about 10 hours we will go back and adjust it to 55 lbs. We will do a mag check at 1500 ...

'Bob

When you say run it up to normal cyl. head temp., what RPM are you using and
for how long?

Mark Denest


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'Hi Jeff

We gap our rings at 19 to 20 thousandths.

Mark D.


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'Hi all Thought you would like to know that there is a real nice PT-19 project out in River Falls, WI for sale. The guys name is Ken Mazac and he is at 715-425-1461. The basic plane is all there. He has got two sets of wings, two fuselages, a good center section, and a set of center section spars on...

'Hi all Thought you would like to know that there is a real nice PT-19 project out in River Falls, WI for sale. The guys name is Ken Mazac and he is at 715-425-1461. The basic plane is all there. He has got two sets of wings, two fuselages, a good center section, and a set of center section spars on...