: It might be the difference between an old manual and a current one. I have
: an ancient copy of the PA28 service manual and it doesn't prohibit control
: surface skin repairs. When a crack jumped the stop-drill hole on my rudder,
: my IA declined to repair it (had to reskin). We compared service manuals and
: my old one didn't have the prohibition, but his current one did. Word on a
: Piper forum was that the prohibition was added to the PA28 manuals by Piper
: in the 90s (which would explain why my old skin was stop drilled).

: John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)

I can find no such prohibition in my service manual (P/N 753-586, Feb 27, 2004). It contains
information (skin thickness, checking balance, etc) on how to do it.

-Cory

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* Cory Papenfuss, Ph.D., PPSEL-IA *
* Electrical Engineering *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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