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We still have the cowl flap actuator motor for sale. No buyers yet

Was it a continental prime PMMA cylinder for a Lycoming? if you have all the JPI data from when the engine was put on, and there’s no overspeed I would send it to them with a letter of demand.

Don’t pull it back to 26/26. There is no benefit.

We pretty much stopped doing leak patches because every time you open up the tank, you can see where somebody smeared three or sometimes even four different kinds of glue inside the tank to stop it from leaking from before. And the sealant is all gooey. You get to remove that stuff. It can quickly turn into 30 hours of work, and often it leaks again because the leak is in the next bay over and it travels under the sealant. It was easy to patch, it wouldn't have been messed with three times.

ours is similar, and it wasnt 50K. We have 4 colors in the interior, and the seats are heated and air cooled. We used DAX firehard foam for the seat bottoms, and they float. The headrests are adjustable.

If you use a super fine polish such as 3M perfect-it 2EX and a ultra fine foam pad and a random orbital buffer, you won’t go through the rivets and you can shine the airplane up to a pretty nice level, not Wool pad rotary buffer level but very close and a lot safer and easier to use.

Change it when its dirty, For some engines that 20 hours and for some, 50.

IIRC you can tighten the fitting over the tubing and it will crush it down

Those guys getting their planes painted in Mexico are not getting the exact same job they would get in the US. And a lot of those paint jobs are the ones that get filiform corrosion five years later.

Those antennas were 400 bucks 10 years ago.

I'm pretty sure there was a high altitude weather balloon

They use the term for the whole engine, but not for cylinders. For example, how does a rebuilt cylinder meet all new tolerances? You guys take a look at that tag that comes with a Gibson cylinder, it says repaired. And that could mean anything too. It means that it was in one piece when it left their shop.

A friend of mine was doing eights on pylons practicing for her commercial, in a Piper Arrow. The engine started to run rough and about two seconds later it shut down. Luckily, she happened to be right on top of a grass crop duster strip and in about 20 seconds she was on the ground. They took the engine apart on the airplane and they discovered that one exhaust valve head had broken off, but it got sucked into two other cylinders and those cylinders also ended up with bent valves, so the engine completely shut down. So yes, it can certainly get you killed. Interestingly, I had flown this plane with her about four days before that, and I remembered it would only do about 120 mph with the gear in the flaps up at cruise power. There are tons of oil jugs over in the corner of the hangar, and the engine had plenty of cylinders from those discount places that advertise in trade a plane. They stuck four cylinders on this thing, and they flew it another few hours until one guy took it for a 90 minute cross country and it used up all the oil and lost oil pressure on final. He measured the height of the fence, but he did make the runway. They finally sent the whole thing off to the engine shop, were they declared the whole thing unserviceable.

The last guy we had that bought the airplane over the Internet and went down to pick it up, brought it to our shop, and then for the first annual, we figured out it needed two new wings. Given is how the shop down in Alabama who maintained it for the seller, very creatively left out the words pre-buy, inspection or anything else and they only communicated by text tells me they probably knew about this. And then the owner sold the airplane to some airplane broker, and it flew away without our knowledge, and I imagine by this point, somebody else has bought it and they're gonna find out the hard way it still needs two wings

there is one here