"If there ARE other A&Ps reading & 'using' this net we need to start monitoring this net a bit more closely and offering our advice to our fellow builders (and pilots, also, for that matter.)"
Forgive me while I respond to two posts with one reply. Like Jeff's response I am also an A&P and did actually make my living for a year and a half turning wrenches on GA airplanes. Loved the work hated the lack of money. One of the problems with your suggestion is that in that year and a half I met more than one A&P that had absolutely no business having a wrench in their hand, I even know an IA that falls into this same category. Quite an eye opening experience for me. Also like Jeff when I see a response that I feel strongly about I will usually respond directly to the sender. This may rob others of my particular opinion but that is just what it is. As far as the aileron attachment was concerned I installed my nut plates on the back of my spar with small #4 x 1/4" wood screws and then floxed over the heads on the screws and ears of the nut plate. This eliminated the head of a rivet on the other side or the need to counter sink the spar or add a strip of nut plates riveted to a separate piece of metal. But it accomplishes the same thing and that is to provide shear resistance to the nut plate. I also put my screws on 4" centers instead of 6" centers. And personally I thought the tube pinching ideas were not just good but obviously "airworthy". One last thing, I had the pleasure of meeting Jeff for the first time at last year's gathering. He is no idiot and I have incorporated his suggestion into my airplane. Stephen Teate Paradise, Texas ************************************************************** The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not an intended recipient, you should delete this message. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized, and any disclosure, copying, distribution or action taken or omitted in reliance on it is prohibited and may be unlawful. **************************************************************
