On 05/25/06 13:16, Javier wrote:
RST Engineering wrote:
"Michael" wrote in message
oups.com...
He just called and said Piper wanted about $325 for the SWITCH. I
looked in Aircraft Spruce and a non PMA switch is about $25.
Even $25 is way too much. As an A&P and practicing engineer, I would
never suggest that you simply pull the switch out, find one that looks
and functions the same (good sources include Mouser, Digikey, and
Newark), and install it. After all, that would not be an approved
part, so you would not be able to make the proper logbook entry.


Nor would this A&P IA, engineer, and avionics author ever recommend such an
approach. No siree, not me, not hardly ever. "Switch? What switch. It
must have been put on there before I bought the airplane."

Neither would this aspiring A&P replace the stall microswitch with one
from Radio Shack (switches drawer, left column, second from the bottom).

No way.

-jav

That reminds me of the movie "The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming!"
"... do not, under any circumstances, insert the ammunition magazine into the
mechanism ... and never move this lever to its full forward position to lock
the magazine in place ..." ;-)



--
Mark Hansen, PP-ASEL, Instrument Airplane
Cal Aggie Flying Farmers
Sacramento, CA