Cheapest part installed on the plane to date: $6 luggage door strap from
Ground Tech. Has absolutely nothing to do with the rib repair...but
it's nice to know that not *everything* costs an arm and a leg. Well,
ok, nearly everything...but at least not a luggage door strap.

You bought a luggage door strap?

Mary cut the little latchy thing out of our old grody one, inserted
said latchy thing into a piece of rip-stop nylon strap she had laying
around her sewing room, and I screwed it the other end into place.

Cost: Priceless! :-)

(Did you see they now make a gas piston opener for our luggage door?)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, iA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"