"Ebby" wrote in message ...
:I was following the thread on Bendix and Slick magnetos and contacted
: several repair shops regarding getting my magnetos overhauled. I got a
: message back from one shop telling me they didn't overhaul magnetos they
: only repair them. What am I missing? I don't believe my magnetos are
: broken but they do have a few hundred hours on them. If I get them repaired
: what would be repaired? I'd get an 8130.3 from the shop with the repaired
: magneto. Oh, knowledgeable ones in the group please enlighten me.
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: John "Ebby" Ebensperger
: Hatz Classic s/n37
: Camden, NY
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FAR 43.2 Records of overhaul and rebuilding.
(a) No person may describe in any required maintenance entry or form an aircraft, airframe, aircraft engine, propeller,
appliance, or component part as being overhauled unless-

(1) Using methods, techniques, and practices acceptable to the Administrator, it has been disassembled, cleaned,
inspected, repaired as necessary, and reassembled; and

(2) It has been tested in accordance with approved standards and technical data, or in accordance with current standards
and technical data acceptable to the Administrator, which have been developed and documented by the holder of the type
certificate, supplemental type certificate, or a material, part, process, or appliance approval under §21.305 of this
chapter.

(b) No person may describe in any required maintenance entry or form an aircraft, airframe, aircraft engine, propeller,
appliance, or component part as being rebuilt unless it has been disassembled, cleaned, inspected, repaired as
necessary, reassembled, and tested to the same tolerances and limits as a new item, using either new parts or used parts
that either conform to new part tolerances and limits or to approved oversized or undersized dimensions.