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Eeeek. From the photos I am seeing, my hangar is looking just a tad less organized. I do have a couple of jugs with miscellaneous hardware dropped into them.

Problem solved. I am moving in next to you. :p

Well, I guess ACS isn't going to get to sell me a bunch of items I probably won't need after all. Thanks for the info gang! I have a couple bins of miscellaneous hardware collected over the years. I guess this was a solution looking for a problem. ;) Next step will be collecting all the...

Hello gang, I am a Cessna 182 owner and do as much maintenance as possible, under the supervision of my A&P, of course. I've got a great hangar neighbor and she has been very generous with providing miscellaneous hardware when needed. I'm looking to be less of a beggar and stock my hangar with...

Well, looks like I found them. I used Teledyne's site which links to Airpower and gives a more generic part number for both studs. And, Spruce has them in stock. Not sure why I couldn't find them earlier.

Hello all, I'm looking for a little help from the collective wisdom pool. You see, I've got this friend. And he might have stripped the threads off the top of a stud affixing the oil cooler to the engine case. It's on a Continental O-470-L engine. The parts books shows a pair of part numbers...

Good news. Things seem to be looking up. I removed both datacards and turned the unit on. It gave a pair of messages about not having valid databases but passed it's self check and appeared to function like a normal nav/com. I went through a few rounds of inserting various cards one at a...

Hello everyone, I am getting ready to head to the hangar again now to tinker. We only have one terrain/obstacle card (which I just updated) so I don't have the ability to swap that one. I have tried with various versions of the navigation card to no avail. Perhaps the software update is an...

Hello there, My hangar neighbor has been having intermittent issues with his GNS430W. First, it was giving database integrity errors. We put in the two cards from my plane's 530W and it worked fine. So, we updated his terrain/obstacle and navigation data cards. That's when things went from...

Thank you sir!

OK. I'll throw out a thought. If we fly alone, we are probably sitting on the left side of the aircraft. I weigh about 200 so that means there is more force acting vertically on the left gear. If the frictional coefficient is the same for both tires, the one with more force acting...

Thank you Magman! I look forward to the info.

I reached out to McFarlane and they responded quickly. But, they do not offer any replacement hinge pins.

There is a little slop in the hinges which, after 50 years and 4,000 hours, is not unexpected. If there are different metals involved, one may be wearing more than the other and the life can be extended. Hopefully, it is the pins and not the hinge as the pins appear far easier to replace.

Hello everyone, At the suggestion of my mechanic, I am looking to replace the aileron and elevator hinge pins on a Cessna 182P and 1976 Piper Archer. I have looked at the parts manuals and do not see the pins being available separately from the two hinge-halves. Aircraft Spruce has some pin...

Thanks for the thoughts so far gang! I understand the concern regarding knocking it out quickly. I have some exposure to twins already and feel pretty good about focusing on the needed tasks. I just finished my commercial single and want to knock out the multi while the data in my head is...

Hello all, I am looking to get a multi-engine add-on. For scheduling reasons, I would prefer to get it done in a 3 or 4 day span. I'm in San Diego, DPEs are in tough to schedule, and our marine layer is keeping us IFR quite a bit lately. Anyone have a place I can head for a little training...

Yep, I agree. Our plane has seen more than one or two dirt strips and I usually take the pants off before she plays in the dirt. Occasionally that doesn't happen though hence some of the extra cracks in them.

Thanks! I'll take a look for the forum post. But "very expensive" sounds a bit like I'm barking up the wrong tree. ;)

Great info Bell! The mains are 6.00-6. Our current wheel pants have the outer bolt screwing into the axle nut (no hubcaps).