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Between sun glare and turbulence shake, I realized my years of trying to perfect a yoke mount was folly. A basic lap board seems to be just fine.

When you start torque wrenching the clamps, Tekton sells a compact one as I recall.

It was a bit over 60 years ago I swung my first Mooney gear and often referred to the process as “flick-flick” to emphasize to my buddies how easy it was. Now my arthritically challenged right hand makes the unlatching process a bit daunting. When I first got my current “C” it was significantly out of rig and the down lock was badly worn. Fixing those made the actual swinging a non issue, airspeed not withstanding. Just wish I had a workaround for unlatching.

Pad heater.

Or add a finger width.

My airport had high speed internet available and I tapped into that a year ago with 1 gig speed at my hangar. A smart outlet lets me control my plug in heater from my phone. Even better, I put a point to point wi-fi from there to my house, 800’ away. The cable company promised wiring up the house for years, but nada. Get 500-600 speed at the house and said good bye to satellite internet.

Scott Simon did a nice tribute on NPR this morning.

If you have a trolley or bottle jack handy and a bar stuck through the knuckle (whatever it is called) of the gear, you can lift enough to slip a too tall wing jack into position.

Do you have a list of Manfrotto parts you used?

Looks like the kind of stuff we used to wish on to those at the top of the seniority list to enhance advancement. Hang gliders, too.

Oh, good. All these years of staying mum on CTAF I was ok. Figured anything I said was stepped on by all the other jabbering, anyway.

Okay, I’ll bite. Who “approves” radio calls?

I think I answered my own question. Sorry. Looks like it is but I wouldn’t need the probes, etc. and the new gauge only price is about the same as yours.

Do you know if that is a plug and play for the 700?

Then there is the ubiquitous wire stripping tool that for some reason always sucks me in because of some improvement over the old one. I wonder where it is . . .