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We use a capacity tester. It puts a load on it and you time it.

PR1425B2 dries a glossy black. It's what Beechcraft uses for their windows. Cheyennes also use it.

I think now the wrapper says do not squeeze the oil, just install.

F models had the slide gate feature like the early 201s which basically didnt seal off. They leaked hot air. The 1979 and later style with a flapper valve work great when you add a thin sheet of silicone rubber On the flapper to seal against the tube.

We've had a few planes marked as compliant, and we opened up the wings to seal a couple of minor leaks, and they were sealants smeared with what looks like gloves and fingers by the pint everywhere. And I showed the owner rhis And I say this can get you killed. you can pump a gallon of water in the airplane and it won't reach the sump but After takeoff it will. Hopefully you opened up the tanks and inspected the drain holes, because an AD compliant airplane could not trap more than a few oz of water.

That EarthX 12V battery only has 15AH of capacity, about half that of the standard lead-acid unit.

If its 20:1 it didnt come off the m20J.

If shaking the wings frees up more than a trivial amount of water, I would wager the drainback holes in the ribs are plugged with sealant, and the aircraft does not conform to AD 85-24-03.

Ive read dozens of stories on here of pilots who had a bullshit prebuy and had to spend a ton of money, and in some cases, scrapped out their airplane. Ive yet to read a story of a seller's plane being stranded in pieces or damaged during the buyer's prebuy.

Then don't release the deposit until the aircraft is back in your possession and you've had time to inspect it

"you take a risk that it didn't get put back together properly or something got broken in the process." Take a big enough deposit to mitigate that. And call the buyer's shop and get a feel for if he knows wtf he is talking about. Google reviews help too, here. Get a copy of his COI, read that too. "you get to find out whether it's still in one piece or not." take a deposit big enough to pay for putting it back together, too. It should also say that in the sales contract as well. "the next independent" mechanic finds some disaster left by the previous one and then it just kind of snowballs." Umm that would be your mechanic who left this disaster. It was your problem regardless if it was for sale or not. Perhaps the buyer shouldn't look too hard, and then pay to fix that at the first annual?

We might as well start saying that airplanes that haven't been resealed in 15 years we should deduct for that $11,000 too, and if the engine and prop are past 12 years old, those are automatically core value. I'm not saying don't deduct for condition. I see a lot of leaking fuel tanks, just none of theM are bladder airplanes. however, we have a plane in the shop right now that the pre-buy, managed by savvy even, completely omitted the fact that it has original 2005 airbag seatbelts which are now well timed-out and I just got the price for the stuff it's over four grand. That and the $1500 turbo clamp. And the ships battery that failed a capacity test in pretty spectacular fashion.. 35%. That's another 900 bucks. TKS fluid dripping inside the wing from a leaky manifold o-ring seal. , and there's several spots where it's pouring out, nobody mentioned that really either. Stuff in plain daylight that was missed.

The torque on these is 70 inch pounds and they strip out at 72 inch pounds.

Did he actually open up the wing and inspect these bladders or is he just inventing something from whole cloth? Also. The bladders are in the log book. If you're gonna make declarations based on age you don't need the plane in front of you to do that. Why wait until it's on jacks in the shop?

so do you think there's no solution for this or is there some kind of additional training that will?

I've had clients supplied a contract written by a broker and it's so one-sided they'll probably be better off with no contract at all.

We got a little bit of an insurance break for the MAPA PPP clinic, but it did not cover the $800 cost of the clinic. Now I'm not trying to discourage going, I think it's a really great idea it's just that insurance companies don't value it at the amount it costs

There must have been more than the cotter pin left off as the wheel bearings are retained by a dust washer stack and a snap ring. And the outer wheel bearing can't fit through the wheel to stay on the axle if the wheel comes off.

Frankly, the bladders were a bullshit squawk.

I can see the need for a contract to protect both parties. Ive had buyers all lined up for a prebuy here, set aside the time, and shop space for it, and have the seller ghost them because someone else offered 500$ more, or offered to skip the prebuy altogether. I had one broker insist we do the prebuy there in NY state at his shop and he ghosted us 5 days before. We nevr did get the last two years of logs or current photos. The more I asked the broker, the quieter he got. I think the plane was likely not in as stated condition. He should have been upfront about it. For the seller, there are some things they need too. Like an assurance the aircraft expenses for transport, the pilot services, and the work authorized by the buyer is paid by the buyer. That no loggab le work or anything thats expensive is done without either seller having title or the owner specifically authorizes it. And take a big enough deposit to buy down that risk. Also so the buyer doesnt ghost the seller who took the time to arrange the aircraft to be inspected. The last one we had, we got by without a contract. But both the buyer and seller were from here and I was the mediator. I assured both parties most of what I wrote above, they both trusted each other and me and it went fine, but I'd rather they had a good contract between them, in case something went sideways.

i hear tinfoil straightens pretty easily

it takes it from 54 to 64. believe it or not there have been lots of times a 64 gallon plane would skip a fuel stop, or make it one stop instead of two. now with random 8$ gas, finally were doing it. this plane came with them, and they've never been worked on. i havent had to work on anyone else's either. but about 20% of mooneys we work on have fuel leaks.

I think he also said simplify, then add lightness. I have also heard that LOTUS stands for "lots of trouble, usually serious. "

A lot of these so-called appraisals are nothing more than a scam. There used to be an NBAA appraiser software that would take actual sale price comps and create value from that, used by their certified appraisers, but that hasn't been an operation for years. So we have "aircraft appraisers" that basically invent values from thin air. We hired one when we bought our partner out in 2019, and the price was fantasy. 1977 J with new paint, low hour factory engine, speed mods, upgrades, GTN750 with GPSS roll steering, and his "appraisal" was 90k. when asked where he got his comps, he said "Vref". A cursory perusal of Controller and TAP showed these planes were asking 130K or more at that time. Jimmy Garrison has written about this problem, too. There are no standards, no code of ethics, no initial or recurrent training, nothing really.

if you send the rubber bellows maybe we can take a look. Its rubber