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Probably covering really old ground, but I did have a little drama with getting rod ends for the Dimona here. I have had some past engineering contact with Rick Fisher from R R Fisher and he was a great help. If you look at the Hoffman parts book and part number , note the U/C rod ends are High tensile. Hence the X in the part number plus is stamp'd on the thread end of the rod. Standard ones were available ex stock but the HT ones had to be ordered from Germany especially and were about 3 * the price of the std ones. But no drama.. they arrived OK. Installation was a bit tricky though as access holes had to be cut in the cockpit floor. I have a few pictures of that if any interest. It seems this one had a busted U/C on arrival Australia, so did need some work around the U/C attach points and all 4 rod ends were bent. I did suspect that they were not HT though. The elevator ones are interesting because of mismatched thread / hole size. I used standard rod ends there and made the clearance around the ball end bigger and bushed the hole to fit the normal bolts. Looks OK. Lastly, the forward tailplane one .. I ordered that thru the local Diamond agents .. Cost an arm, 2 legs and a lot more .. All up 1018.00 NZ$. (includes GST, freight etc) It is not listed in the Hirshman catalog However what turned up was 2 rod ends in 1 bag so I do have one spare if required .. Price negotiable !!. It is also HT, along with the pin it slides on (which was not in this Dimona) The pin was $150.00 It is supposed to be a little shorter than the other two, but the one I received was the same length. However there is no problem sliding the tailplane on so all OK. Best regards Ian Williams ZK-GCB S/no 3537 From: Rob Thompson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2012 4:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [DOG mailing list] electric fuel pump and rod ends for 3000hourly For your information... Dimona electric fuel pumps are at http://www.hardi.de/verge.htm U/C rod ends are Hirschman. Not sure, but I imagine the elevator rod ends would be Hirschman also. The main tailplane rod-end is a custom made Hirschman Hirschmann Australian agent R.R. FisherCo.LTD. P.O.Box 754 Caringbah, N.S.W.1495 Phone: (02)540-4533 Fax: (02) 540-4079 E-Mail: [email protected] PO Box 129, Lawson, NSW, 2783. mobile 0429 493828 ............................................. --- On Sat, 17/3/12, Ian Mc Phee <[email protected]> wrote: From: Ian Mc Phee <[email protected]> Subject: [DOG mailing list] Fwd: Gascolator To: "DOG LIST" <[email protected]> Received: Saturday, 17 March, 2012, 11:00 PM This is Gascolator fitted to Dimona XOO with a drain outside - it is mounted just forward of the battery. Does anybody else dimona have this? I really do not like the inline fuel filter our dimona has. In my opinion this is the only safe way to go esp when using PULP 98 fuel as one day you will get crap fuel from a service station. We once had crap fuel soon after the tank at S/s had been topped up and this stirred up all the crap and we got a dose of it - must admit that was 15 years ago. I guess an EO or SB is needed to fit same but in my opinion there should be a rule if you increase safety significantly then an EO is not needed. When we did Jabiru install in a Falke Dafydd L insisted we must have Gascolator, a sump added to tank + a finger filter in the tank where fuel is drawn from. He has had experience with crapy car fuel from the good old days Second att is a NACA air inlet as well as ball vent on the inside. It is brilliant compared to the sort of NACA duct on top of cowl in a low pressure area. Basically thi ones is same as in HK36 except it goes direct into cockpit and works better than HK36 NACA is correct shape in line with air flow and has top of wing profile to suck the air into the NACA. It is a Vans NACA. I thought I best test to see if gases were coming it on the RH side so used a multigas tester and highest was 8PPM CO which is all but zero Ian M --------------------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to the Dimona Owners Group mailing list. To unsubscribe, send email to: [email protected]
