(Snowbird) writes:

"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message ...
Snowbird wrote:
This is rather amazing to me, and leads me to wonder about
the mechanic or your memory.

Well, the mechanic is now running a towtruck operation, and it's been 8 years
since we spoke about it. The Cheetah under discussion occupied the tiedown
next to mine for several years.

Rereading my post, it sounds rather snarky, for which I apologize.

But seriously, there's something strange about this story. First
that regluing in the field is not an authorized field repair method.
It was a factory repair, and I *think* I heard Fletchair might be
authorized to do it in a limited way for the purpose of fuel tank
repair. Unless the mechanic in question worked at the factory???

My understanding is that the field regluing is perfectly doable IF you
have the proper jig. Catch: no one has the proper jig, except for
(apparently) Fletchair (and presumably The New Tiger, of course). The
few Tigers I know which had field repairs done used flush rivets. One
in particular had a superb paint job and you couldn't tell it from a
non-riveted Tiger.

-jav, former Tiger owner