The International Cessna 170 Association

Thank you for the fast reply, George. Agreed.

As far as “salvage”, perhaps I misunderstood what they said. I defer to your longstanding relationship with them.

Mike

Reviving this thread because it looks like it's my turn to replace the spring retainer on my tailwheel assy. It appears that SK70A52-4 was installed on my 170A (s/n 20054) sometime in the past with the retainer that has the tang (p/n 0510000-31). As others have noted, this is where I found the crack...

That’s the way I was leaning, George. Just for my own benefit and understanding... tube vs tubeless? Interchangeable using the same wheel halves, right?

As always... thanks for your help!
Mike

I’m trying to figure out what tailwheel tire to replace my current tire with. Right now, it’s a tubeless Aero Classic 2.80/2.50-4 6 ply with sawtooth tread. I’m not able to find an exact replacement; the tire may be 15 years old. Is there any advantage to tube vs tubeless? How about tread type (ribb...

ForeFlight just announced a trade-in offer for the Scout. Buy a Sentry or Sentry Mini from Sporty’s and get $100/$50 off if you trade in your Scout. https://www.sportys.com/media/pdf/ScoutTradeinForm_final.pdf The Sentry is $499; the Mini is $299. I haven’t compared prices elsewhere, but imagine the...

I hope to be there Friday thru Sunday. My first time and really looking forward to it!

Had to look him up...

Not being from the Lone Star state though, haven’t heard of him. You’ve had a few good ones come from TX

I agree George! I’ll have to get a couple pictures to show you. I rent space in a 50x50 with 2 Pitts and there just isn’t a good way to stack the airplanes that keeps me from having to move two airplanes, so right now I go over the top of one. Yikes.

When I am king, things will change!

I did the Appareo Stratus ESG as well and have no complaints. A Pitts S-2 hangarmate has the uAvionix wingtip installation and I am always very cognizant of his wingtip and the additional clearance required to ensure I don’t somehow whack it off. Another friend with a Grumman Yankee has the Tail Bea...

Thanks George.

gahorn wrote:(and I am unforgiving of cheap inner-tubes and air leaks, but 2 or 3 times a year it’s necessary to do it.)

I must be flying with some cheapo tubes! I have to add a few psi every few weeks! What tubes are you flying, George??!!

Mike

I love the Scout, but I’ve been having the same issues. It seems to disconnect a few times each flight. I spoke to the ForeFlight peeps at Oshkosh and they suggested I send them a datalog file from the Scout when it disconnected. They could then troubleshoot the issue and maybe see what’s going on. ...

The gentleman from Zeftronics told me the same thing back in February; that I would have to go about approval for the 20A regulator on my own. I never did follow up. Since then I’ve hemmed and hawed about putting in an alternator, but then that leads to a myriad of other mods that I just don’t have ...

What a great trip, Miles! I’m sure your girls will remember that forever.

If “Speedy” is also known as “Zip”, then yep that was his 170 - George and David Andre. Their hangar was down at the far end, I rent hangar space from George in his 2nd hangar. George turned 84 yesterday and celebrated with a flight in his Bucker Jungmann.