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 Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 3:59 am Post subject: Fuel Tank SB. Someone please talk to Richard VG |
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Can someone relatively local like Randy get over to Van's during business hours and have a face to face discussion with Richard himself and see why they didn't soften up the language initially? We might find something else like it wasn't just 2 or 3 RVs that had incidences or something more factual along those lines.
Ask for all of us on the 'net if he would reconsider softening the language like saying proseal would have been an acceptable method - just for all those thousands of flyers with insurance companies to worry about immediately?
Thanks,
Lucky
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From: "bdjones1965" <rv_8pilot(at)hotmail.com>
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Not sure about everyone else out there, but I kind of doubt my flop tube is
"flopping" around very much at all. It may shift around side to side a little
and maybe once every year or two I'll really botch something and get negative.
Other than that, I'd be more worried about the weight wearing a hole in the
bottom of the tank where it's sitting in 99+% of the time.
I find two things really curious. One is why Van has apparently crossed into
the grayness of liability and appears to have assumed some partial role as
manufacturer by sending out these Service Bulletins. This "SB" looks and smells
just like one you might get from a *manufacturer*. And his wording was just too
much like that of a manufacturer as well.
Second, speaking of risk, I have several other hose fittings in my plane that
*will* cause engine stoppage - maybe I need to safety those as well. A flop
tube connection failure *may* cause stoppage, and should be recoverable by
switching tanks.
This flop-tube item is pretty far down on the priority list for me. Not to
mention that I specifically remember tightening that nut very well.
But now Van's has me concerned about the applicability of my insurance if I
don't comply with this overreactive "SB", while not being worried about the
airworthiness of my plane. Gee, I would expect this kind of treatment from
Cessna, Piper or Lycoming.
Bryan RV-8
Houston, Texas
Read this topic online here:
http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=15240#15240
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Can someone relatively local like Randy get over to Van's during business hours and have a face to face discussion withRichard himself and see why they didn't soften up the language initially? We might find something elselike it wasn't just 2 or 3 RVs that had incidences or somethingmore factual along those lines.
Ask for all of us on the 'net if he would reconsider softening the language like saying proseal would have been an acceptable method - just for all those thousands of flyers with insurance companies to worry about immediately?
Thanks,
Lucky
-------------- Original message --------------
From: "bdjones1965" rv_8pilot(at)hotmail.com
-- RV-List message posted by: "bdjones1965" <RV_8PILOT(at)HOTMAIL.COM>
Not sure about everyone else out there, but I kind of doubt my flop tube is
"flopping" around very much at all. It may shift around side to side a little
and maybe once every year or two I'll really botch something and get negative.
Other than that, I'd be more worried about the weight wearing a hole in the
bottom of the tank where it's sitting in 99+% of the time.
I find two things really curious. One is why Van has apparently crossed into
the grayness of liability and appears to have assumed some partial role as
manufacturer by sending out these Service Bulletins. This "SB" looks and smells
just like one you
might get from a *manufacturer*. And his wording was just too
much like that of a manufacturer as well.
Second, speaking of risk, I have several other hose fittings in my plane that
*will* cause engine stoppage - maybe I need to safety those as well. A flop
tube connection failure *may* cause stoppage, and should be recoverable by
switching tanks.
This flop-tube item is pretty far down on the priority list for me. Not to
mention that I specifically remember tightening that nut very well.
But now Van's has me concerned about the applicability of my insurance if I
don't comply with this overreactive "SB", while not being worried about the
airworthiness of my plane. Gee, I would expect this kind of treatment from
Cessna, Piper or Lycoming.
Bryan RV-8
Houston, Texas
Read this topic on
line here:
http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=15240#15240
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