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GrummanDude
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 Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 11:17 am Post subject: Project plane |
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I pulled the carpets out of the project plane. Here's a good one. The carpets were cut around the brake master cylinders and installed all the way to the front. The carpets had a 1/2 inch of sound deadening material sewn to the backing. The carpets weighed 10 lbs.
I also removed the side panels. Interesting installation. no screws. Velcro was sewn to sound deadening material (3/8 in thick) which was then glued to the side walls. It was nearly impossible to get the side panels off. Oh, yea, the arm rests were riveted to the side panels.
The aluminum side kick panels were gone. Carpet was glued to the side walls. A ONE-PIECE carpet from the firewall to the back seat was glued halfway up the side wall. Then, the aluminum side panels were velcroed on top of that. ALL of the avionics wiring is under the sound deadening material on the side walls.
OK, so, once I got the carpet on the floor off and started cleaning 30 years of crap out from under the console, I noticed the floor looked like the bed of a truck that just had a load of gravel dumped into it. Did someone beat the shit out of it with a ball peen hammer?
Maybe the installer was pissed off because the owner wanted the carpets under the brake master cylinders.
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| Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 12:00 pm Post subject: Project plane |
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Maybe the installer was pissed off because the owner wanted the carpets under the brake master cylinders.
Why run the carpet under the MC? So the carpet can soak up all the brake fluid that is spilled! I can't believe the shit you run into, Gary. Must have something to do with California Grumman maintenance! (Not you of course)
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GrummanDude
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| Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 8:46 pm Post subject: Project plane |
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What can I say? Maybe I'm too picky.
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| Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2009 6:40 am Post subject: Project plane |
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Not at all! I think that there is just a lot of VERY sloppy work out there and apparently many mechanics and owners have very low standards and are happy with mediocre work or even worse! I suppose some owners are just plain ignorant about what kind of work is being done but there are others who pinch every penny and put a lot of pressure on their mechanic to get by as cheaply as possible. I tell my customers when I first start maintaining their planes that I won't cut corners and if they don't want me to maintain their plane like I maintain my own then they can take it elsewhere. None of them seem to have a problem with that. I'm sure that's probably the case with you but then there are those first time annuals on planes that have had years of deferred maintenance!
As an example of the opposite, I'm doing an annual on a Tiger now that had an ignition miss on one magneto. After pulling all the spark plugs, cleaning and testing them I couldn't find any problem. It still ran rough (3 cylinders firing). The mags have only 600 hrs since new and about 70 hrs since a 500 hrs inspection. Nothing obviously wrong with the mags but the ignition harness appears to have a lead that is resulting in misfiring of one plug. The owner said let's just put two new mags, new harness and plugs on. He always wants to go overboard the other way when it comes to maintenance. He doesn't want to take any chances and doesn't want to be stranded up in Canada out in the boondocks with a mechanical problem. I like that kind of customer! Maintaining his plane is a joy.
Cliff
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