Although Joe Horton emailed me this morning with "STEP AWAY FROM THE
COMPUTER AND PUT YOUR HANDS ON THE PLANE!", and I've done exactly that, I
feel like I ought to throw this out there...I've been thinking about the
carb heat box and that sort of stuff again, and it occured to me that the
site at http://www.aviacompworldwide.com/connectors.html might come in handy
for other folks facing the same dilema. I already have the heat muff that's
designed for 1.5" O.D. tubing
(http://www.wicksaircraft.com/catalog/product_cat.php/subid=1343/index.html
). The carb heat boxes are accessible from one of the tabs up top, but the
fittings below are some that you won't see anywhere else. AS and Wicks
sell some of them, but this is the source of the whole line of the good
stuff. I think I'm going to have to make something special for my
application, since their Ellison plenum is set up for updraft carb, but I
got some of the ideas from the fittings on this site. Basically I'm going
to replicate that box in fiberglass, laid up on foam with hideously
fabricated valves. I'll let you know how it turns out...
Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama
see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
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