I won't go into stories after 100hly but a good one with a tug is what we did for years at Keepit (with blessing of a clubmember who was EWA LAME) and that was a 95hly (brakes fabric tyres etc) - Get everything fixed up before 100hly and just do a good look over (mainly fuel, air fliter and oil line related) after 100hly. Recently a new tug had been between 2 LAMEs but both failed to see a 2mm gap top and bottom behind airfilter - In Feb next year all heads would be off from dust injection AND repairs of $6k to $10K. For tugs really inspect airfilter is mounted correctly and no dust can get in. IAN M
2008/11/4 Catherine Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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. >> >> _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring >
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