Learning from an owner annual

Jay Honeck wrote:
So next year do the bulk of the annual on the 31st of March and screw in the
last nutplate on the 1st of April, when the signing takes place. Following
year 30th of April and the 1st of May. Now your annual is due in May. Or
June. Or July. Whatever fires your rocket.


We had actually started down that road, and realized that we were
moving our annual dangerously close to the sancrosanct Oshkosh Month of
July. We also didn't want to lose and of our precious warm weather
flying to an extended annual inspection.

The thought of missing OSH because of something stupid like waiting for
a part has caused us to actually move the annual UP a month this year,
just to get it safely back into the bad flying weather of March.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

But Jay, you miss the fun of test flying the airplane the night before
you leave for OSH!! Of course a nice little test flight not show you are
DUMPING fuel into the engine compartment (damn stuff vaporizes and you
can't see it on a hot engine). Made our shortest leg to OSH award.
Found and A&P and the problem, were on our way in half an hour. I HATE
annual before big trip stuff.

Annual now due in April. Might go to March next year, but it's warmer
in VA!

Margy

Jay Honeck wrote:
The thought of missing OSH because of something stupid like waiting for a
part has caused us to actually move the annual UP a month this year, just
to get it safely back into the bad flying weather of March.

One word: Courtesy van!


We drove into OSH from 1984 through 1998. Nothing against it, but it's
just not the same as flying and camping in the middle of 12,000 other
aircraft campers.

THAT is OSH, to me, now. The airshows and stuff are still fun, but the
North 40 is what grass-roots aviation is all about. So, we try to
make sure that Atlas is in tip-top shape every July, for that long, 90
minute flight back to Wittman Field...

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

And we couldn't party in the parking lot

THAT is OSH, to me, now. The airshows and stuff are still fun, but the
North 40 is what grass-roots aviation is all about. So, we try to
make sure that Atlas is in tip-top shape every July, for that long, 90
minute flight back to Wittman Field...

And we couldn't party in the parking lot

You've never tail-gated before?

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay Honeck wrote:
THAT is OSH, to me, now. The airshows and stuff are still fun, but the
North 40 is what grass-roots aviation is all about. So, we try to
make sure that Atlas is in tip-top shape every July, for that long, 90
minute flight back to Wittman Field...


And we couldn't party in the parking lot


You've never tail-gated before?

;-)
at OSH? NEVER

You've never tail-gated before?

Shouldn't that be tail-Gator'ed?

Back when I used to work on airplanes as an avionics tech, someone showed me
a neat trick for getting stuck screws loose. When you find a screw that
doesn't want to come loose, or that the screwdriver tip cams out of, put a
little valve grinding compound on the screwdriver tip. Valve grinding
compound comes in a tube at auto parts stores, and has a fairly coarse grit
in it. It gives your screwdriver tip much better traction in a screwhead
that's already been a little damaged, and does a great job of preventing the
screwdriver tip from camming out. There's also something similar available
called "Screw Grab" that I found at a hardware store locally, that has the
same grit in it but in a thinner solution. It works just as well. I rarely
have to drill out screws since I started using those compounds.
Scott Wilson

wrote in message ...
[...] Valve grinding
compound comes in a tube at auto parts stores, and has a fairly coarse
grit
in it. It gives your screwdriver tip much better traction in a screwhead

I'm sure you'll get replies saying (in effect) "you didn't know that?" But
thanks for posting the tip anyway. Lots of the rest of us didn't know it
either.

Peter Duniho wrote:
wrote in message ...

[...] Valve grinding
compound comes in a tube at auto parts stores, and has a fairly coarse
grit
in it. It gives your screwdriver tip much better traction in a screwhead


I'm sure you'll get replies saying (in effect) "you didn't know that?" But
thanks for posting the tip anyway. Lots of the rest of us didn't know it
either.


The Phillips ACR bit sold by Snap-On has serrations which reduce "cam-out".

--
John Kimmel

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"He's dead, Jim."

On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 19:48:05 GMT, wrote:

Back when I used to work on airplanes as an avionics tech, someone showed me
a neat trick for getting stuck screws loose. When you find a screw that
doesn't want to come loose, or that the screwdriver tip cams out of, put a
little valve grinding compound on the screwdriver tip. Valve grinding
compound comes in a tube at auto parts stores, and has a fairly coarse grit
in it. It gives your screwdriver tip much better traction in a screwhead
that's already been a little damaged, and does a great job of preventing the
screwdriver tip from camming out. There's also something similar available
called "Screw Grab" that I found at a hardware store locally, that has the
same grit in it but in a thinner solution. It works just as well. I rarely
have to drill out screws since I started using those compounds.

Thanks for the tip.

-Nathan

writes:

Back when I used to work on airplanes as an avionics tech, someone showed me
a neat trick for getting stuck screws loose. When you find a screw that
doesn't want to come loose, or that the screwdriver tip cams out of, put a
little valve grinding compound on the screwdriver tip.

I have actually tried super-gluing the screwdriver to the &^(^ Phillips
screw. You have to have a way to hold it in place for say an hour later.

It got the screw out & was no issue to then remove the screw & glue, but it's
hardly practical...
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