MikeOH

Not happy with this news. Not happy with them not supporting my "old" iPad. Not happy with GP being my option. Guess I'm just going to keep using FF until it goes to crap.

^^^ BINGO ^^^

I practice steep turns, slow flight, and stalls every few months. My rationale is that I want to maintain a feel for the performance edges of my aircraft; I personally think that skill/ability atrophies. While I don't intentionally fly in that regime on normal flights, I also believe that distractions and events might put me in a less than ideal flight regime. That's when recency of training and the feel it imparts might just save my ass. Yes, all you ace-of-the-base pilots know that you're too good for that to ever happen to you. I acknowledge it could happen to me, so I plan to LIVE with that limitation.

If it was me, I'd have the Fig. 7 dimension re-measured by someone else (I might try myself, but that dimension looks tricky to measure to 0.001" with home shop tools). And measured in the undisturbed area, not around where the dimples are. You might even ask the shop that rejected the crank exactly where they made the measurement. What I'm getting at, is that if this is a first run crank, which given the factory dimples are still there, it appears to be. Then, I don't see how the Fig. 7 dimension could have become out of spec; the gear locates on that surface and is fixed by the locating pin, so I struggle with how it would get worn beyond the limit.

As a decayed and recently retired engineer (hardware) I lost my enthusiasm some time back for all the same reasons. Now, happily retired

I wouldn't say 'prefers'. In context, as excerpted below, it will accept up to 8C if under constant voltage charging, but that will rapidly decrease. For conditioning charge (section 9) Concorde indicates C/10:

@EricJ @PT20J Is there a minimum full-power RPM spec?

Redline is 2700 rpm. What is the minimum acceptable as I doubt it's the full 2700 rpm!

IMHO, you have found a GREAT shop! They made a mistake, owned up, fixed it, and at YOUR location. BRAVO!

It's been a couple of years, but I was very happy with both price and turn-around from Aero Accessories in Van Nuys. Been trouble free since the overhauls (yeah, I did both mags at the same time; not the smartest thing, I suppose)

Probably buying them from Eckler's and marking them up

@EricJ Here's an example of what we are talking about: Guy wants to have his buddies over to watch the Super bowl but his TV is too small. So, he heads over to Walmart and BUYS a 100" big screen, takes it home and he and his buddies watch the game. Next day he takes it back for a refund. Now, the store CANNOT sell it as new; open box special is probably the best they can do. But, hey, this guy doesn't care about that.

Do what, exactly? All kinds of stores MAY offer rental programs, e.g. Autozone and all the ones you specifically listed. That is NOT what we are talking about.

EXACTLY!!

I guess I'm not being clear. We are not talking about KEEPING a tool from a rental program where they just take your deposit as the purchase price. The 'discussion' has been about going to a regular store (WITHOUT a rental program) and BUYING a tool. Taking it home, using it once, and then going back to the store, returning it, and getting your money back because you NEVER INTENDED to keep the tool.