Repairing CAI-302

[Dan Marotta]

Today the needle fell off its perch in my CAI-302. It looks like a simple
drop or two of super glue would set the world straight.

Does anyone know if it's possible to remove the glass to replace the needle
without violating the seal on the unit? I've got it out of the panel and
will ship it tomorrow if I must, but I hate to have my ship down for a
couple of weeks.

Yeah, if the weather shows much promise, I could plug the pitot/static/TE
lines and just use my Android with its internal GPS to fly...

[Tim Taylor]

On Feb 25, 5:15*pm, "Dan Marotta" > wrote:
> Today the needle fell off its perch in my CAI-302. *It looks like a simple
> drop or two of super glue would set the world straight.
>
> Does anyone know if it's possible to remove the glass to replace the needle
> without violating the seal on the unit? *I've got it out of the panel and
> will ship it tomorrow if I must, but I hate to have my ship down for a
> couple of weeks.
>
> Yeah, if the weather shows much promise, I could plug the pitot/static/TE
> lines and just use my Android with its internal GPS to fly...

Nearly impossible to fix it without violating the seal. Mine fell off
two days before the Nationals last year. Got lucky with a field repair
of a trained technician the could get the seal reset.

[Tim Mara]

Jeff at Cambridge is good about repairs and will certainly get it in and out
very quickly if you send it to him .I wouldn't even suggest users try fixing
their own .....you could damage more and spend a lot more fixing what you
broke along the way trying to fix something Cambridge would do for less.
tim
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"Dan Marotta" > wrote in message
...
> Today the needle fell off its perch in my CAI-302. It looks like a simple
> drop or two of super glue would set the world straight.
>
> Does anyone know if it's possible to remove the glass to replace the
> needle without violating the seal on the unit? I've got it out of the
> panel and will ship it tomorrow if I must, but I hate to have my ship down
> for a couple of weeks.
>
> Yeah, if the weather shows much promise, I could plug the pitot/static/TE
> lines and just use my Android with its internal GPS to fly...
>
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[Dan Marotta]

Thanks for the replies.

I'll be shipping it out. At least this happened before the season really
got started.


"Dan Marotta" > wrote in message
...
> Today the needle fell off its perch in my CAI-302. It looks like a simple
> drop or two of super glue would set the world straight.
>
> Does anyone know if it's possible to remove the glass to replace the
> needle without violating the seal on the unit? I've got it out of the
> panel and will ship it tomorrow if I must, but I hate to have my ship down
> for a couple of weeks.
>
> Yeah, if the weather shows much promise, I could plug the pitot/static/TE
> lines and just use my Android with its internal GPS to fly...

[hretting]

You might as well replace the tilt-panel gas strut too.
DOHT!!!!!
R