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