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The runways were federal money, I would like to see the city or county fix the roads on the city side. They were embarrassing last time I was there.

I wouldn't worry about it.

My wife was just cleaning the oven. She was using this stuff called Scrub Daddy Power Paste. She was telling me how great it works. I read the ingredients and didn't find anything that would hurt the aluminum or the paint. It has a clay based abrasive, which is probably OK on urethane paint. I did a wing repair a couple of years ago and the paint was a little speckled. I color sanded the top of the wing 3 days after spraying. it polished up just fine. I left the bottom for another day. Six months later I went to color sand the bottom and 2500 sandpaper would hardly touch it. So I don't think a clay based abrasive would do any damage. I ended up using Comet cleanser on the bottom of the Cessna. it didn't hurt the paint. I think the clay in this stuff is less aggressive than the super fine limestone powder in the cleanser. https://scrubdaddy.com/product/powerpaste

340275-27 They stopped putting them in with the J. Laser has one of the M20F throttle quadrant covers with the ash tray mount. Oh, I see you have a 78 with push pull controls. No ash tray for you.

You could put the ash tray back in.

It has to do with the oil holes in the rod journals in the crank. The oil holes are drilled so they ar at the highest pressure point in the rotation as the piston comes down. This gives the thickest and strongest oil film at that point. When the engine is being driven, the pressure is applied on the opposite side of the bearing where the oil flow and film strength is lowest. I believe there are some torsional resonance issues with some prop engine combinations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triboelectric_effect

I hate to be a back seat driver (my wife would argue with that statement), but, I would have steered off the runway and headed for the grass.

https://medium.com/climate-conscious/the-policy-slogan-build-back-better-has-an-interesting-backstory-c41731e8282 https://theconversation.com/building-back-better-may-seem-like-a-noble-idea-but-caution-is-needed-154587 Covid gave the world something to Build Back Better from. Now that it has ran its course, what’s next?

I think any charge big enough to make a static spark, would make that spark across the ball joint before you got the fuel nozzle anywhere close to the airplane. The charge would actually flow through the 13 ohms quite rapidly. If we knew the size of the charge, we could figure it out. I’m thinking sub-millisecond.

That’s why racers and dirt bike riders use the Nalgene gas cans, which are not rated for gasoline. It’s because the modern safety gas cans are worthless for storing gasoline.

The Ashby glare shield should be considered an inner framework for a nice upholstery job. It is a sturdy piece of fiberglass, but it’s kind of ugly as it comes.

I remember my commercial check ride. I practiced chandels and lazy eights a lot. On my check ride I got half way through the first chandel of the lazy eight and the check ride guy says “you got this, let’s move on”

I have heard about the bed liner issue and have seen the warnings. It’s crazy that you were one of the first victims of the bed liner. Glad to hear you weren’t seriously hurt.

I have an Ashby glare shield on my J. It fits OK. You will have to mount the lights and I had mine covered in leather at an upholstery shop. It needed a little trimming. It is fairly thick fiberglass, so it will never fall apart like the original plastic.

And it is the lowest impedance path to the fuel tank. At least on the side you hook it to.

That must have been scarry!

Sure, this guy was doing everything wrong. I was thinking of fueling from a pump or truck.

Has anybody personally seen a fuel fire from static? No hearsay.

If anybody was going to blow up a plane, it would be you. So I'm listening to you.

FWIW, I always ground to the tiedown loop.

If you use a fuel hose with a yellow stripe on it, then the fuel nozzle is grounded. So after discharging the nozzle to the aircraft, you are good to go if you keep the nozzle in contact with the aircraft. https://www.parker.com/literature/Industrial Hose Products/IHP Literature PDF files/IHP Product Catalogs/CAT 4815 Gold Label Aircraft Fueling Hose.pdf See page 12. It says that the hose assemblies are tested for electrical conductivity.

I think ya’all are over complicating this flap thing way too much. But that is just me. Whatever works for you is fine with me. After many thousands of Mooney landings, I must say landing a Mooney well is way easier than parking my truck in the Walmart parking lot.

Whatever works for you….

No flaps on instrument approach until I break out then full flaps. In 4500 hours of Mooney flying, I have never approached or landed with partial flaps. They are either up or down. They don’t do much anyway. I’ve never needed 1/2 of not so much. On go arounds, 1/2 power, trim, full power, trim, positive rate, gear up, 100 feet, flaps up.