"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
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On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 12:20:10 -0500, " jls"
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I do agree with this. If you don't like it my way.. feel free to
A&P/IA shop... it is your right and you, as pilot and/or owner share
the liability for your choices. Seek your own level of comfort....

I don't seek to impose my anal will upon you, it is your decision, and
your decision alone as to the level of compliance you are comfortable
with..... suit yourself.... but don't snivel if you bear the
consequences

Spamcan-think duly noted. Now please answer the question regarding
unapproved elevator tips.

BTW, I went to your website and took a look at your taildragger project.
Now that is an ambitious undertaking and I wish you well. I had a project
in the eighties, a Taylorcraft, and have "courted calamity" with it now for
going on two decades. One A&P/IA didn't like my ancient wingtank valve and
made me change it out to a working one. In other words, we went from an
unsafe,dripping legal valve to an illegal one that didn't leak. I
re-covered the wings on this airplane, fly it all over the country, rebuilt
the engine, restored the trim system, restored the brakes, rebuilt all the
control surface hinges, watch every little thing, and do my own annuals --
under the A&P's watchful eyes, of course.

I recently looked at a fuel cutoff valve which comes with an RV-6 kit. It
is a boat valve like I have seen used -- probably legally -- on
Taylorcrafts.

It seems to me the A&P's pay is earned by finding solutions, not snapping
condemnations. That's the reason why I go with the guys who gave Michael
Horowitz answers, not nononononono. And you still haven't shown why SAE
parts are illegal for a Taylorcraft, the plumbing of which came from the
factory with all kinds of them. The brakes are from a motor scooter. They
work too. And you can buy plexi for the windows at Home Depot.