Can anyone advise how to deal with local crazing and sunbumps? I have several areas on the Tri-Q I am restoring where there are small patches (1-2" dia ) that need local repair, the main area around t

Thats OK Jim, I do have a fairly good understanding of bonded structures from years of being in metal rotor blade manufacture. The old tap test was the inspectors main weapon in the detect a delam sta

Hi Austin, Farry's is immaculate, I think you will get lots of useful info from him. I don't have a reflexer, I have the little tailplane type trimmer mounted on the fin. I did think about changing it

Hi Gerard, If it is the tail dragger, the speed brake is under the tank , whereas I think that Austins is under the main gear if it is like Farrys. It opens at the front as well, like a big airscoop.

Hi Guys, Does anyone have a spare upgraded rudder yoke / welded post assembly ? Or does anyone have the drawing for one please ? It for my Tri Q and its the wider one I need ( it has the bolt on modif

Hi guys I note you have some good looking catchers on your machines. Can you tell me where I can find the basic design for them, I cant see them on the Q2 plan. The bugs at the field have found mine q

Hi Guys, I am at the point where I need to put primer and top coat on the TriQ. I had been looking at using 2 pack polyurethane with epoxy primer. But before I go down that road, what is everyone else

Hi all This year Santa decided that I could do with an uprated nose leg to replace the 20 year old one on my Tri Q, and it arrived yesterday. Many thanks to Scott Swing and co at Velocity, and Dave R

I am currently looking for a replacement rudder pivot post and arm welded assembly for the Tri Q, which I think is part number Q2CSA10, ( that may be the old Q2 short moment version number ) If anyone

3 months ago young Mike Dwyer wrote to me about refinishing when I first started work on FN, and the phenomenon of the expanding peeling process, and of course he was right, to some extent at least. T

Hi All, Merry Christmas to you. Under the upper cowling on my Tri, there is the remnants of some white substance which is flaking off, looks something like heavy weight dandruff. I suspect it was a fi

Hi Guys, So does it matter which Elevator pushrod the thumb wheel resides in ? Mine is on the Right one. Richard Thomson Weston s Mare , UK Tri-Q G-BMFN richard@...

I agree chris, crossed controls tend to catch people out especially when there is a lot going on, and the left side does seem better for access to be able to use your other hand to adjust the wheel wh

Hi Guys, I'm sure that someone has probably asked this before but how many GU canards are still flying as against how many have converted to LS1. Does anyone have any info ? And are there any GU guys

Thanks Jon, and everyone who has contributed to this thread. I have an LS1 on my early Tri Q 200, which I did wonder if it was at one stage, until PB pointed out it had strainers and cambered elevator

Hi All, What have all you Tri Q people got fitted on your wheels, especially the nose wheel. Now that I have looked at the conversion call up I am slightly confused. I know mine has Mcleary Air Trac 5

Hi All, I had dealt with all the bumps that had been there on the tail cone before Xmas, so after the cold spell began to lift back in mid Jan, I looked to get things ready to start priming. I started

Joseph, One tip that I saw on the Canard Aviators site from Ken Miller I believe, was if you are using epoxy primer add some dry micro in any pin holes or small defects as you paint. It bonds tight an

Sam H, Was I dreaming, or are your sparrow strainers fairly close to the root end. Mine are in the middle, so what is the thinking behind it ? Does it matter where they are ? Richard Thomson TriQ G-BM

Thanks Everyone, thats most informative. Mine are also behind the centre support currently, but they need remaking, so the inboard sounds like place to go. By the way, has anyone got pages 19 - 32 of