Ray,
There is such a beast (courtesy of Andrew Sarangan), as well as a list of
FAQs that are very helpful to builders. Links to both are on the Club web
site at www.europaclub.org.uk - follow the link to the Forum page.
The Club also has an excellent booklet gathering together the best hints and
tips, compiled by Dave Watts, with entries coming from the Forum, the
factory newsletter, and the Club magazine "Europa Flyer". As a new builder 6
months ago, I found it very useful indeed - it flagged some difficulties I
wouldn't have known to look for a solution for until too late!
One of the most time-consuming problems I had initially was finding
suppliers for all the little extras - acetone, mask and filters, Tyvek paper
overalls, paper roll, syringes, etc. I'm putting my UK list of these up on
the Club site ASAP, and hope those in other countries will respond to my
call and help out with their lists.
The two real pains to date have been acetone - in the UK most suppliers
won't sell to individuals because they perceive a liability risk - and empty
mastic/caulking tubes for the big Redux jobs. I spent 3 hours the other day
just sourcing the tubes (and they had a minimum order size of GBP20, so if
anyone in the Oxfordshire area needs some, get in touch!).
Regards,
Jeremy
-----Original Message-----
From: forum-owner@europaclub.org.uk
Subject: Re: Web Site links
Jeremy:
On the note of reducing the "has anyone done ..." questions, I'm
a soon-to-be new builder and really enjoy the obvious utility of this
forum. But I'm hoping there is a searchable database of previous
questions that I can interrogate in the attempt to minimize the dumb
questions I'm likely to ask. Any suggestions?
-----Original Message-----
From: forum-owner@europaclub.org.uk
jeremycrdavey@btinternet.com
Subject: Web Site links
I'm currently working on the links sections of the Europa Club web site,
and just wanted to put out another appeal for useful links. In
particular, I'd really appreciate any the following:
1) Regulatory bodies (the CAAs, EAAs, FAAs, and JAAs of this world)
2) Good suppliers (if possible, please include a couple of sentences
about why you think they should be on the site - I'd like to include
these recommendations with the links)
3) Mods - I've had no details of any individual (i.e. not Factory or
Club) mods yet, and I'm sure we all remember what it was like when we
started building and had no idea of what were good mods to include, and
why. Please help your fellow Europa builders by putting forward details
of your mods as examples to follow. We might even manage to reduce the
number of 'has anyone done....' emails on the Forum!
4) Airfields - know any Europa-friendly airfields?
I know I said this is a links section, but actually I am including some
useful suppliers that don't have web sites, but which I have been lucky
enough to discover (for example, I found an organisation that does
acetone at a very competitive price and delivers to my door for free -
although they don't have a web site, it's worth other UK-based Europa
builders knowing about them). So if you know some good suppliers, even
if it's just a local one-man-band who does upholstery, or
aviation-standard welding, please let me have details, wherever you are
in the world.
I'm particularly keen to get some non-UK links - being UK-based, most of
the suppliers and airfields I know about are in this country, and I need
help making this site as useful as possible to our non-UK builders and
fliers. So please, whether you are in the Americas, the Antipodes, or
'on the Continent', get in touch!
Thanks for all your help.
Kind regards,
Jeremy
Europa Club Webmaster
Europa XS monowheel 537M G-EZZA
Europa Club website is at <http://www.europaclub.org.uk>
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