Lee,

That may have been me. Glad you're happy. We use the avionics shop in the
same hangar. Nice people and very competent.

Too bad about the plastic piece, though. I discovered that the completely
deteriorated plastic louvers in the overhead vent duct in our 74 Archer were
only available from some outfit called Precision, that apparently bought all
the Piper parts when Piper went bankrupt years ago. They wanted $1,100 each
for original (Grimes) louvers! I bought some plastic eyeball vents from the
outfit that supplies them to Aircraft Spruce for $18 each and installed
them. They work perfectly and look a lot better than the originals. I
figure my partners owe me over $2,100 :-)

--
Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways)


wrote in message
oups.com...
I took the advice of someone on this group to have my interior
refurbishing done by Airborne Upholstery at Stoudsburg/Pocono (N53).
They are (BTW) excellent and do a fabubulous (and very fair-priced)
job. No complaint there and I am VERY pleased.

But in replacing the headliner, we decided that it was best to replace
the plastic housing that fits over the red cockpit-lighting and
instrument lighting rheostat. This is just a thin plastic cover that
had a break at the point where the screws hold it in place.

Now, we aren't talking about the guts of the light, the rheostats, the
fixture or wiring . . . JUST the cover.

Cessna charged me $300.00 for it. I know I shouldn't bitch, and I
should know by now (7 years of ownership) . . . but man that seems
out of whack to me.

:-(