Syd, I couldn't agree more. When the ad can out I had (5) Ercoupes for the flight team. ( 2) Alons and (3) 415 CD. All had metal wings We did the AD. They were all fine. The Alons had had the zinc green stuff on the caps from the factory. We took the wings off to do the older 415 and looked real good, drilled the holes. They were real shiny inside like new, alittle real light corrosion on the bottm caps but no big deal. One plane I sold and the wings had some hail damage so the new owner was going to recover them with cloth. When he had the metal skin off he found the spar caps were real bad. We then took some the metal skin on the other ones off and they were ALL bad. One plane the caps looked real good after we took skin off and I didn't think they needed to be replace, but the man who bought it wanted to play it safe and put on new caps. When he took the old caps off the spar than you could see they were ROTTEN from the inside. I think if your coupe had the metal wings put on in the late 50's or 60's there ALL bad. I know it tought but start saving your money and put new spars in your planes as soon as you CAN!!! gene
Syd Cohen wrote: > Be careful, careful, careful when considering purchasing wings from someone > else. Look very closely at the bottom spar cap for exfoliation. My mechanic > and I checked about 36 Ercoupe and Forney wings and found exfoliation in the > bottom spar caps of 24 of them. If you know you have good metalized wings and > want to go back to fabric, I think all you have to do is submit a Form 337. > > Syd Cohen > Ercoupe NC94196 > Wausau, WI > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > When we had a problem with metalized wing, we looked into buying a set of > > fabric wings. Good metal wings can get $1000 ea. Fabric wings sell for about > > $600 ea. You might consider selling your metal wings and buying fabric wings. > > Even with recovering you would probably come out ahead. > > Jack Russell
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