Jeff Foxworthy's video about the "prep" is very accurate, had mine done 3 weeks ago, the procedure itself was painless.
I'm good for 10 years until the next one.
I told my wife, "rent a dumpster, call the local air museum:
the contents of my hangar, garage, basement is theirs if they dump all the other non-aviation stuff."
I once had an AME tell me "never apply for a medical class that is higher than you need"...….therefore: if all you need or will need is Basic Med... don't risk a problem found on a 3rd class
in the Aircraft Spruce online catalog.....on the C-Spec 4000 series studs page, scroll down to the bottom and click on drawings and specs...it is much more readable than the paper catalog.
There was a VIP TFR bust about a year and a half ago, by a pilot out of Carlisle, PA , story and Link attached :
hangaround.co/2017/10/05/flew-presidential-tfr/
The pilot owned up to the mistake, was co-operative with the FAA, it ended well.
There are two types of led T-8 tubes. There is a "plug and play" type that is a direct replacement if you have a working electronic ballast, and
There is a "direct wire" type that requires removal of the ballast, rewiring the fixture and may require new "tombstone" sockets. There are many...