My Grumman nearly caught fire on a 45 degree day first flight after a
100 hourly. The battery leads shorted on the metal battery box
because they were not properly shielded. Result was a 1/2 a molten
battery in the bottom of the box all green and fizzy.
The LAME apprentice then tried to explain to us that if the battery
leads shorted there would not be a problem because the energy couldn't
get out (!)
-Cath
On 04/11/2008, at 4:02 PM, David Lawley wrote:
Hi all,
Mike said;
I guess you'll save on LAME labour costs at the price of the
towplane being at the > mercy of gliding club maintenance. It won't
take too many
unavailabilities to negate this.
Frankly Mike
I would rather have a gliding person maintain our tow plane. The
only downtime's we have had In the last 5 years were immediately
after LAME's worked on it.
The cause was VERY poor workmanship. (For example, in one case a
condenser mounting bracket had broken. The LAME had cable tied it
on. The condensor touched the outer metal jacket of a cable cover
and shorted the mag to deck..) I am sure none of our people would
have done such a poor repair.
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