AIG is selling a Ventus 3M after a small trailer fire caused by an overheated trailer fan. Anybody know the particulars on this! What fan and why I caught fire?I don't think the owner posts here, so I will relate what he told me. In the past he has used a small rechargeable Makita leaf blower to move air through the wings and dry them out after a contest. When the battery dies, he recharges and repeats. He
JJ
On Friday, June 17, 2022 at 9:14:38 AM UTC-4, johnsin...@yahoo.com wrote:thought there's got to be a better way, so he found a similar looking unit with 120 volt power on Amazon, and ordered up two--one for each wing. When they came, they seemed perfect: the little rubber nozzle fit right in to the fill port. He plugged them
AIG is selling a Ventus 3M after a small trailer fire caused by an overheated trailer fan. Anybody know the particulars on this! What fan and why I caught fire?I don't think the owner posts here, so I will relate what he told me. In the past he has used a small rechargeable Makita leaf blower to move air through the wings and dry them out after a contest. When the battery dies, he recharges and repeats. He
JJ
Nelson
On Friday, 17 June 2022 at 17:38:53 UTC+1, Nelson Howe wrote:thought there's got to be a better way, so he found a similar looking unit with 120 volt power on Amazon, and ordered up two--one for each wing. When they came, they seemed perfect: the little rubber nozzle fit right in to the fill port. He plugged them
On Friday, June 17, 2022 at 9:14:38 AM UTC-4, johnsin...@yahoo.com wrote:
AIG is selling a Ventus 3M after a small trailer fire caused by an overheated trailer fan. Anybody know the particulars on this! What fan and why I caught fire?I don't think the owner posts here, so I will relate what he told me. In the past he has used a small rechargeable Makita leaf blower to move air through the wings and dry them out after a contest. When the battery dies, he recharges and repeats. He
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NelsonPhotos:
https://tinyurl.com/2ph5abfj
On Friday, June 17, 2022 at 11:51:47 AM UTC-7, jpg...@gmail.com wrote:He thought there's got to be a better way, so he found a similar looking unit with 120 volt power on Amazon, and ordered up two--one for each wing. When they came, they seemed perfect: the little rubber nozzle fit right in to the fill port. He plugged
On Friday, 17 June 2022 at 17:38:53 UTC+1, Nelson Howe wrote:
On Friday, June 17, 2022 at 9:14:38 AM UTC-4, johnsin...@yahoo.com wrote:
AIG is selling a Ventus 3M after a small trailer fire caused by an overheated trailer fan. Anybody know the particulars on this! What fan and why I caught fire?I don't think the owner posts here, so I will relate what he told me. In the past he has used a small rechargeable Makita leaf blower to move air through the wings and dry them out after a contest. When the battery dies, he recharges and repeats.
JJ
NelsonPhotos:
https://tinyurl.com/2ph5abfj
Wow, the outboard spar fitting shows some heat damage, but it may be limited to the spar wrapping, and may not have damaged the spar cap, which is higher density and takes much longer to absorb heat. We repaired a wing that had seen enough heat toblister the skin in a large area, but after removing the top skin I found the spar cap was OK………..we proof loaded the wing to 5.3 G’s before test flight.
The info page doesn’t mention the trailer, but everything is sitting in the bent bird yard, so I’d bet everything goes to the high bidder?
JJ
Some days, your the windshield
Some days your the bug
Just when I thought I'd heard about everything,
I read the story of the above fire.
What kind of Sh*t luck is that?!
Catch your Glider AND your house on fire?
Nick
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Right?.
On Friday, June 17, 2022 at 3:54:37 PM UTC-7, nickkennedy...@gmail.com wrote:
Some days, your the windshield
Some days your the bug
Just when I thought I'd heard about everything,
I read the story of the above fire.
What kind of Sh*t luck is that?!
Catch your Glider AND your house on fire?
Nick
On Friday, June 17, 2022 at 6:47:31 PM UTC-7, kuzi...@gmail.com wrote:fiberglass, but I couldn’t get the bulb inside the wing with the shade on, so I remover the shade! I used several strips of duct tape to insure the light bulb couldn’t touch the fiberglass. Everything looked copacetic, so I closed up the shop and
Right?.That story got me remembering the day I made a fiberglass repair just inside the wing root rib on an ASW-20. I usually place a 100w light bulb near the repair to raise the temperature for a proper cure. The lights shield keeping it away from the
On Friday, June 17, 2022 at 3:54:37 PM UTC-7, nickkennedy...@gmail.com wrote:
Some days, your the windshield
Some days your the bug
Just when I thought I'd heard about everything,
I read the story of the above fire.
What kind of Sh*t luck is that?!
Catch your Glider AND your house on fire?
Nick
About an hour later, I returned to find the whole shop full of smoke! The heat from the 100W bulb made the duct tape loose it’s grip and the light bulb slowly lowered down and came to rest on top of the wet fiberglass repair I had just made.Probably most of us have burned a hole at one time or another. I have. Small repair gets bigger.
Talk about catastrophic consequences, I came very close to burning down the shop with a customers new bird inside! That’s when I got Product Liability Insurance!
JJ
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