Eliacim,
As I recall you live in Texas. If so the little beastie is a small wasp that feeds its young spiders. It paralyzes the spider(s), then puts it in a small hole (like a pitot tube) and lays its eggs. It then "sheetrocks" over the hole with what looks like white wallboard plaster. And yes, a "ripe" one has quite an odor. Bill Biggs Central Tx To: [email protected] From: [email protected] Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 10:57:13 -0700 Subject: Re: [ercoupe-tech] Re: airspeed indicator Reminds me this weekend I was working with an A&P IA on a Cessna 150 with a blocked pitot. The A&P disconnected the tube from the ASI, blew compressed air towards the pitot and asked me to to hold my hand in front of the pitot to catch whatever would come out. I was dumb enough to put my hand in, but smart enough to keep my face far from the thing. At first, nothing... Then. POW! A burst of whatever was clogging the pitot hit my hand, as a really bad stench spread through the place... We never found whatever was there, but sure smelled rotten. I had to run and wash my hand. Next time, we switch places. Eliacim --- [email protected] wrote: From: "goofyguy77" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: [ercoupe-tech] Re: airspeed indicator Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:09:40 -0000 You may want to check your PITOT connection where the tubes are joined with unions inside the faired area of the port side wing root (u need to remove the lower fairing..... While you are at it, u may want to check a couple things; first I'd blow a little compressed air through the line towards the pitot/static tube (NEVER TOWARDS THE ASI OR ANY OTHER INSTRUMENTS IF THEY ARE CONNECTED!!!) just to make sure that nothing is restricting your tubing and also to ensure you don't have the pitot and static lines mixed up That low a reading suggests a leak somewhere --- In [email protected], "jayschubox" <jayschu...@...> wrote: > > I have just test flown my '65 Alon after rebuilding from damage sustained in > 2001. My airspeed indicator is very slow to start indicating and continues to > lag after climb out. On final the indication drops away quickly to near zero > while my gps gives a ground speed of 70mph. I have tries adjusting the pitot > tube, but seems to give no results. Fittings are all tight and dont appear to > leak. My guess is that my airspeed ind. probably needs to be replaced. Anyone > else have a similar experience? Suggestions? Thanks. Jay > _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with Hotmail. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multiaccount&ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_4
