Any SD Model 33% yak owners out there...?

[mikel7099]

	Quote: Originally Posted by gapple12
	Thats good to know. Thanks for the reply. I will probably be getting it from TBM also.

Get the landing gear if you can. That gear is awesome.Looks great bolts right up and suppose to be stronger than the Graphtec gear.

[gapple12]

Yea, I am getting the gear also. I wanted to wait until I got a good feel for the plane so I wouldn't end up damaging the CF gear on a bad landing. Thanks again for your help......

[gapple12]

Here is a few of mine.....about 15 flights on it.

[mikel7099]

Looks great. Good luck with it.

[Jason Michael]

indeed

[wilson]

I be one

[Harleyflyer]

RVBlack,

Let us know how that DA 85 works out! I have a 35% with a DA 100 and seems like the 33% with the DA 85 would be a great combo....be very interested in your assessment with the 85!

Keith

[Jason Michael]

A lighter plane is def where it is at; we all know that. The DA 100 is a bit heavy for this plane I think.The DA-85 should be a perfect match. I am running a ZDZ 80 RV. I also have one on a 31% edge 540T that is setup for sportsman flying and weighs 17.3. The ZDZ 80 RV is more than enough power for this craft. So I would say in the SD yak 54 33% with all the goodies around 16 pounds wouldbe a 3D MONSTER GRRrrrWROWL

[Show871]

Do you guys get a cowl noise like an buzzing empty milk jug on your yaks. I have re-enforced my motorbox to stabilize my da 85 on my sd 33%, but my cowl still makes a empty milk jug sound on mid to upper rpms? Have you come up with anything to dampen the noise???? or is it just a trait of the big open cowl yaks??? thanks 871

[gapple12]

I get the same noise on mine, never figured out where it comes from.......

FYI to you guys with this plane. I was flying last weekend and on last flight, I noticed the plane was flying different. So I landed and noticed my motor was loose. Got home and tore it down to find out that the motor box "L" brackets from the kit snapped. I have only 30 flights or so on it so go figure. Only one bracket had broke, but the other was half way split. I ended up just taking all that metal out and using wood and dowel rods to pin everything. Will test it tonight.

[Jason Michael]

Not cool. . .

[mrhp]

i found on mine that the plywood is broke loose from the fiberglass cowl. i reglued it and problem is gone

[gapple12]

My noise is still there slightly, I think I got rid of most of it by putting in a baffle and like mrhp said, make sure the wood brace in the cowl is glued well. I also put soft velcro strips on both sides of my canopy to make a soft contact in case that makes noise also when vibrating.

So, like I had mentioned before about the firewall, I fired it up last night after completely rebuilding the firewall and ran it for a bit. Wouldn't you know the darn thing broke again!!! So, I guess they use the metal brackets for a reason or my engine is vibrating WAY TO MUCH!! Anyways, I guess I will be buying some metal "L" brackets to put it back to how it was.

Do you guys think the cold weather would make the epoxy not set right? I even put triangle stock on it with dowel pins threw both sides.

[Jason Michael]

It would have to be pretty darn cold to effect the epoxy to not set correctly. Real cold...
I used epoxy the other night in twenty degree weather and had no problems with it.

[gapple12]

Thanks Jason, good to know. The temp was about 30 degrees and I used 20 min epoxy. I am going to use 30 min this time and make some metal brackets since it seemed to work last time, just not strong enough metal I guess.