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Hello all, It is time for me to invest in a 'screw kit' for my E and the choices out there are all over the map; e.g., Spruce offers a kit for M20E/G (up to 1976) for $69.85 while Brown has a 'Mooney M20/201/231 Universal Screw Kit' for $143.95. Others out on the web are all over the place. Anybody invest in one of these sets for getting through the annual after R&R'ng all those panels, etc? Someday I will chance upon the hidden hole in my hangar floor that countless screws, washers, nutplates, etc. have rolled or bounced into, but until then I need a good fastener set. Harley
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I know there were a number of threads on screw kits, but I never saw a definite shopping list for a M20K. Does anyone have one? I attempted to write down all the various screws, washers, nuts and whatnots from an IPC I have, but my copy is not searchable, so I gave up pretty fast. Does anyone have a M20K IPC that would be a proper PDF, searchable, with proper text in it, not a bunch of scanned pages? Getting stuff shipped from the US piecemeal is becoming a pain and I'm at a point where I'll be happy to spend the extra $$$ on a bunch of screws I probably won't need just to have the ones I will need in a box near the plane when I need them. I realize that after 40 years some of the screws from the IPC might have changed in size (as in, oversize screws were installed at some point in time) so pointers / suggestions based on experience are also most welcome.
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My buddy and I did an oil change on the airplane last weekend. A royal pain, we wound up having to pound a wood chisel into the oil filter to get enough oomph on it to get it turning, but we got it off, got the new one on, safety wired and everything. We went to put the cowlings back on the nose and made the most unpleasant discovery. The screws aren't all the same the way there were on the Cherokee. Every screw doesn't fit every hole, not by a long shot. Well, we worked with it and by the end we had every hole filled with a screw but three that didn't fit our remaining screws. We were both tired and frustrated, so I figured I could play musical screws with the airplane another day. They all came off, they should all go back on. We put the remaining screws in a baggie on the hangar shelves. Where I couldn't find them today for the life of me. They're Criminy, do I feel like a boob.
