Building tips and hints

[LetMeFly]

I was looking around for something to cap the barbed fuel fittings before attaching the actual hoses to keep junk out of the tanks. Found these vacuum caps at O'Reiley Auto Parts. They have five of each size and are only about $9.00. They work great and are easy to come off when ready too connect the fuel lines.

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[Shadowrider]

Those look good! Good find. On another note, one of the secret menu items is the banjo fittings. Email Heather and tell her you want the banjo fittings. IMO they should be standard for the kit. I wish I would have listened by another member who told me to get them, but I chanced it and found a fuel leak a year later. Fix was ordering the banjo fittings. It will enable your fuel fittings to be tight, and lined up.

[LetMeFly]

Those look good! Good find. On another note, one of the secret menu items is the banjo fittings. Email Heather and tell her you want the banjo fittings. IMO they should be standard for the kit.

When I test fitted the tank, I saw why everyone was getting them. I’m ordering them on Monday!

[LetMeFly]

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I found these on Amazon and they're great for cleaning up small areas of Hysol or varnish off the spars that you might have missed!
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/...0?ie=UTF8&th=1

[mike92104]

When I was ordering the extended elevator for my Kitfox, Heather sent to to Cardinal Paints website to figure out which color my original kit was. While I was visiting the website I noticed they have color matched paint for touch up. Ordering was easy, and the color is a perfect match.

https://shop.cardinalpaint.com/colle...cardinal-stock

[PapuaPilot]

I totally agree with Jim. I like a nice tight baggage sack. I didn't put an inspection hole in the belly there, but I just pull some of the top Velcro strips loose on the baggage sack to inspect and lube things in that zone. If you need to access the tail you can just undo all the Velcro and collapse the baggage sack on top of the floor board.

[Dave S]

Official Rotax tools are prohibitively expensive for some of us. Picked a scrap piece of 1/4" steel plate and angle iron from the shop, sliced a rectangular hole with the torch and a few holes to drill and I had a bracket that could be attached to my inexpensive slide hammer. For extra points, the angle iron also makes a handy stand to hold the gearbox once off the engine.

For some reason the photos are sideways, but you get the idea.

Rotax lists the price for their puller @ $523

[Eric Page]

I see how it's a stand for the gearbox, but I don't understand the slide hammer part of it. It's probably obvious to everyone else...

[Dave S]

Eric,

sorry - norwegian trick on my part - there is a hole in the angle iron on the side the thing is sitting on - 1/2" hole to match the threaded end of the slide hammer - probably didn't help that I neglected to show the slide hammer hooked up.