You can remove the data plate from your slick magneto and stamp "Webb
magneto model 1, serial number 1" on it and the AD will no longer apply
to it.

Yes. That's what they told me to do with the engine (a modified IO-360).
Can't just remove the data plate (I'd done that). Didn't know I'd have to do
that even to the Mags, but I guess so. I don't have trouble with the mag AD
anyway. That inspection I can do - and sign off - myself.

As for the strut, I'd like to see them prove that it came
off one of the piper models that the AD applies to. For all they can
tell you built them in your garage, unless there are part numbers
visible on them, which I highly doubt.


As for the struts, I could have just replaced the forks (they are
recognizable as the small sized forks that were notorious for cracking. Mine
were new, but who needs a cracked strut - it's NICE if the wings stay
attached like they're s'posed to. And once I'd decide to replace them, the
whole strut wasn't much more of a stretch.

It sounds like your FSDO has a case of cranial rectitis

Cranial WHAT? How'd you know his name??

Naw - he was really a nice enough fella, but his word was LAW, and he knew
it! It seems I'm "guilty until proven innocent", and there is no practical
way to challenge their decrees short of a $Lawyer$.

now that you are on their radar it is probably easier to just do as they
say.

Yep.