I realise this is a dimonia web site and this is about a falke with L2000
and fixed pitch prop
Trevor Mills a LAME from Cobulture (Owns a RF5) called in from his around
AUS trip in RV8 flying from Broken Hill to home and put his dynamic
Prop balance on Falke and in 5 goes he has transformed Falke from a cattle
track to a Merc - there is ZERO vibration {and I mean ZERO) in the stick and
if I were deaf then I would not know the engine was running.
In past I have done static balance but this is hugely better. It now has 3
big washers under one screw and 2 under another
So I have learnt something. Years ago I static balanced PIK prop and it
made huge difference
Also should add over the last 3 weeks the Limbach has been hard to start bit
like it was little flooded. The fault turned out to be no or not enough oil
in carby damper. My friend did the oil change etc while I was in Tassie in
May and probably did not check oil I guess' Anyhow the plugs have had an
oven cleaner clean -perfect and now falke starts in <1sec instead of
coughing and farting to get started
So now we have 3 motorgliders without a single vibration - when you have
prop balanced you wonder why you put up with previous vibration .
I should say Trevor charged me nothing for the balancing - he just wanted to
see the smile on my face after my first flight
Ian McPhee
