Piper SB1161/rib replacement update

Montblack wrote:

Bricks????
Very observant MontBlack(or is it MontJet)san. Yes, bricks. A couple
of 2X4s as well. High tech? No. Effective? Yes. I know, with your
head deep in (no, I don't mean there)...but rather MontJet design, I'm
sure the sight of plain old bricks threw you for a loop. Sorry, us
lowly 100ll burners are just regular folks and use regular things to
prop up our planes when replacing airframe components on a 35 year old
plane. :-)


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Jack Allison
PP-ASEL-Instrument Airplane
Arrow N2104T

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth
with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there
you will always long to return"
- Leonardo Da Vinci

(Remove the obvious from address to reply via e-mail)

I was thinking it woulod be in the 5 AMU range (just a guess)... It
sounds like the shop is being fair to you and that is good.. The last
fuel tank repair we had a new shop make they ran WAY over their estimate
of hours but still honored their original amount. We appreciated that
and will take 43H there for our next annual.

On a good not 5 AMU's divided by 3 is a lot easier to choke down than a
sole ownership would be. :-)

Jon Kraus
'79 Mooney 201
4443H @ TYQ

Jack Allison wrote:
Jon Kraus wrote:

How many AMU's is all this going to set you back Jack?


Estimate was 50-70 hours labor at $70/hr. Parts were 1.2 AMUs. Do the
math and it's just south of 5 AMUs on the low side. We don't like to
think about the high side. The labor estimate was purposely high as the
shop doesn't like to overrun. One nice thing is that they didn't track
the number of hours on the right wing as they had extra learning curve
time to deal with. They're going to take the number of hours for the
left wing (which is taking much less time) and double it. I'll be sure
to post the final AMU amount. Kleenex gladly accepted.

Yep, it's pretty sad to see how many rivets needed to be drilled out.
Felt like a kit builder's nightmare.

Did you drill the rivets yourself to save money?