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The $250 Smoke System

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Why buy a commercial system when its easy to roll your own?

Making Sandable Foam Glue/Filler

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An epoxy alternative thats easier to work with for low-stress, structural applications.

Get a Grip on It!

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Adding wing-walk tape to slippery keyless drill chucks.

Using Drywall Spackling Paste as a Filler Material

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A comparison of 10 products.

Build Your Own Leak-Down Tester

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Converting a Harbor Freight compression tester for aircraft engine use.

Build Your Own Optical Tach

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An inexpensive remote tachometer you can set on your instrument panel.

In Case You Missed It

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Cable Ties For Ballast

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Cable ties will become brittle over time and can break. Having weights come loose during flight, especially near the control system, could really ruin your day. 

The Independence Project: We Start the Finish Kit

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The Independence Project presses on, this time tackling the multiple tasks that make up the finish kit on the RV-12. By Dave Martin.

Completions

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Builders share their successes.

Continental Pushrod Tube Modification

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Owners of a certain type of Continental engine, the cam-at-the-bottom variety, are undoubtedly familiar with the annoying seepage of oil from swaged pushrod tubes and rubber pushrod seals. Now there's a cure, and author Ron Darcey describes the fix.