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At 2:22pm on September 11, 2023, Joe Hopwood said…

Hi John,

I just realized that I have not been receiving any notifications other than when a new member signs up. I went to the email page, and I have everything selected to receive. Any idea what could be happening? Guess it is possible my email server is blocking but don't know why it would let the new member notice come through. Any ideas?

Also, I noticed that a Mr. Michael Mccarthy has been trying to contact me. It was date June 2021. Guess I have been too busy to even notice missing emails.

At 2:56am on June 28, 2023, Tony Renshaw said…
Hey John, Tony here with a thank you response to your photos of your seats. I really appreciate them, and they are inspiring. Would you have any templates of the covers that go over the flight controls, I’d happily buy them from you? Lastly, you mentioned extending the seats towards the stick, do you mean narrowing the slit gap between your legs for the stick, making it tighter laterally, or longer as in closer to the rudder pedals for better thigh support? Thanks again for the input.
At 3:59pm on May 24, 2023, Bill Alexander said…

John,

Yes thank you for your research and development of many mods to your 750. I have copied your design for the four point harness. I ordered the tubing and plate from Aircraft Spruce. Then read your write up, cut to length at 23 degrees, welded up, and guess what? A perfect fit. M y question is do you still have the information on the belts you ordered from Crow? The lengths ? Or order number for them to reference too. Yep still going , I did install the Edge bore kit on my 912 and with 50 hr on it it seems to be doing really well. I should find time and make a trip up to TN for a visit.

Regards Bill Alexander.

At 1:43pm on May 4, 2023, Michael A Housewert said…
John Austin ... John .... Then approximately how from the wing tip before transitioning from 30 to 60 mm spacing for the VG's?
At 10:58am on October 12, 2022, LARRY TRAMEL said…

Thanks, John for showing me your plane I got a lot of info from our visit. You have a beautiful home and landing strip in on of Tennessee most beautiful valleys. Hope you got your water leak fixed and sorry if I held you up. Thanks again

At 6:35am on June 18, 2021, Joe Hopwood said…

Hi John, 

Michael Mccarthy put a comment on my wall that he has tried to contact me before and I did not reply, but he has not contacted.  Don't know for sure whether he attempted and it just did not get to me.  I tried to reply but his is set to private.  I do not want to send email to the one in his comment as that would expose my email.  Is he a valid member?

At 10:26am on May 2, 2021, Chris M. Brammer, Jr. said…

Sorry John.  Did not mean to offend anyone, or post an add to sell my plane.  Was merely replying to a question on my selection of a 0-320 engine.  Don’t see how to delete, so maybe you can do that for me.   Chris

At 6:15pm on December 5, 2020, Dennis Hutchinson said…

John, 

I just changed my internet service from AT&T to Xfinity, which as a result, my e-mail address is changing. How do I change my e-mail address for my log-in? When I go to my profile options, I follow the link for “change” under the e-mail settings, at it just dumps me back to the previous page. Your assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Dennis Hutchinson 

At 3:19pm on July 2, 2020, Mel Asberry said…

Hey John,  Thanks for the heads-up n the DAR question. I normally don't visit the 750 forums.  I'm happy to "act" as a DAR consultant whenever I can help.

Maybe there could be an "Inspector Consultant" forum.

At 10:26am on August 29, 2019, Jeffery R Millburg said…

John , their is inspection panels for the rear tail where u need them call me   1-217-473-3269 Jeff millburg ch750

At 2:23pm on May 1, 2019, Jack E Martin said…

Hello John,

First I want to thank you for all the good information you have shared with the forum.

I also have a question. Since the horizontal tail section produces a downward force in flight, I wondered if a larger horizontal tail section would cause additional drag. Have you noticed any reduction in speed due to your elevator extensions?

Jack Martin

At 2:45pm on January 11, 2019, Carlos Sa said…

Hello, John

Looks like I can't reply directly to your comment re engine mount installation, so here it is:

I wasn't aware of the existence of this tool - it would probably have made life easier for the other three bolts, but I suspect it would not fit in the space I had for the 4th bolt.

Just inserting the regular C clamp took a great deal of maneuvering... 

But still, not as daunting a task as I expected. Patience and creativity go a long way.

Cheers

Carlos

At 1:22pm on August 20, 2018, Theodor Galdi said…

John:

I hate to bother you again about this, but the "search" function in Ning is totally useless.

Briefly, I got a windshield which was flat across 80 percent of  the top, BUT the left and right ends were elevated about 3/4 of an inch. I got on the Cruzer forum and laid out my problem. Some of the members said that one could gently heat the ends with a heat gun to to make them flat. I tried this and could not evenly heat the whole end to lie flat, making these really ugly distorted ends that still had dips in them. I emailed,then spoke to Roger who said a small rise was not unusual. I can't figure this out because water will get under the rise. In the end, I reordered a complete windshield--which was expensive, but the shipping was almost as much as the windshield.

With that as background at an earlier time we discussed your installation and I bought enough butyl tape for the perimeter, BUT I cannot find the email or forum entry in which you set this out.

Would you please send this to me again.

Ted Galdi

At 7:26pm on July 2, 2018, David Banahan said…

Call me.  David Banahan 270-784-9299

At 3:16pm on January 29, 2018, Theodor Galdi said…

Thanks, John for indulging my poor memory.

I got some 1/16 by 1/2 inch butyl tape ordered this morning. Amazon was nice enough to offer me 20 rolls for a total of $176. After a fair amount of surfing, I found a seller that would sell me one or two. Jon Croke had indicated that some of new bubble door builders had used adhesive on them. I ordered enough butyl tape to do the windshield and the doors--using the spacer bushings on both.

On the basis of your comments below, my guess is that the ideal spacer bushing will tubing will be the plastic fuel line that they use for model airplanes.

Thanks again. Ted Galdi

At 10:40pm on January 28, 2018, Theodor Galdi said…

John:

Thank you VERY much for you reply concerning mounting the windshield. On the basis of a more recent post by you I had already increased the thickness of the windshield support to .050. I am going to order some 1/8 by 3/4 black butyl tape from amazon tomorrow.The idea of making a butyl "sandwich" sounds like an excellent way to seal the windshield.

What I did not see in your reply was a response to my suggestion that thin sections of 1/4 inch nylon tubing (like we have for brake lines) be put in the 1/4 inch openings in the windshield.

Did you leave them out?

Thanks again.

Ted Galdi

At 3:06pm on February 4, 2017, David Muse said…

John,

I need to thank you for the tip about helicopter blade tape. I wandered over to the downtown airport last week and caught a mechanic working on a Jet Ranger (Sky4News) and asked him about it. He laughed a bit and told me to go over to Pep Boys and get a roll of clear rock guard tape, like is used on car rocker panels. Said it was the same thing, only cheaper. You might want to look at this.

Dave Muse

At 11:49am on November 10, 2016, Theodor Galdi said…

John:

I still have not figured out a way to make my replies to your entries show up in them.

My current question is: How do you like your Conform Foam now that you have been flying the plane for a while?

Because of a motorcycle accident many years ago, I prefer a very firm foam on the seat base with no bolsters to keep the head of the femur off the seat. My experience with conforming foams is that they become soft and you sink in--which puts pressure on the hip.

BTW, the seats really do look nice.

At 9:23am on October 30, 2016, Theodor Galdi said…

John:

There was a posting on the Cruzer forum about building the vertical stabilizer. I replied with the "draft" email that Roger had just sent me. It is not there now.

Did you delete it?

At 8:03pm on October 29, 2016, ronald zielke said…

hey John  saw your plane  at the open house, and a  much deserved award, congratulations  

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