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Joe, I realize you're kind of the messenger + middleman in this. Notwithstanding, is it possible to obtain photos or more specific info of the subject tanks, and of the subject wings? It'd be helpful to everybody to know specifics of how these tanks were installed into these wings. I bought my tanks...

Brian, I owe you an apology. I told you by email this week that the Levens Bros door from line 601 in the Type Certificate has a forward hinge like you're looking for and I was wrong. It's a top hinge like Bill D describes above. Complete brain-fart, sorry. You wouldn't think I'd get that one wrong ...

Hi Karen, good to see you guys still working on that airplane! Most of the people on this group don't know, but Karen & Bill's 15AC was the first Sedan I ever saw. I was working up in the Seattle area in my first job out of school, and Bill Morris & Karen Sandberg (no relation) were meticulo...

Hi Joe, I'll look for pictures and refresh my memory, but it went generally like: - Remove the seats, carpet and front floors - Remove the belly pan - Support the whole nose by hoisting the engine mount (and attached airframe) to lift the wheels off the ground. Don't let the plane rock on the tailwh...

There's surely a lot of variables in a time estimate. I don't think you'd go unchallenged in the assumption that since there's oil, preservative, etc, collected around the bottom cap acting as a barrier against the atmosphere, the lower beam angle is then immune to the specific type of corrosion in ...

Hi Bill, I had to take my right wing clear apart, and replaced the beam angles in the process. From what I've done, for the beam angles only, I'd estimate 5 man-hours to remove the wing, 30 to de-skin, 10 hours to drill out the old angles, 10 to fit & rivet the new ones on, 30 hours to re-skin a...

Joe, I commented to and corresponded with Della Swartz in late 2008 in a series of emails and photos, and have at least some of it still in my Sent Mail folder. I'll be fowarding it to you offline. It was pointed out to me that maybe I didn't understand the text of the [proposed] AD regarding inspec...

I guess everybody's seen my photos from a couple of years ago on this thread. I've looked through the factory inspection holes in the wing I haven't taken apart yet, and to some extent, the caps are visible. A quality borescope would add some to the inspection area accessible from the 4 factory cove...

Hi Aryana, congratulations. I just finished getting new bungees onto my Sedan project. It sounds like you have the right information. You need to remove the little brackets and safety cable, and disconnect the brake lines. It's easier with the floorboards removed, but maybe not impossible. You can d...

Hi Joe, In the FAA paperwork archive for my Sedan, N1241H has a letter on file from FAA in 1966 that allows it to fly "with not more than one door, removed for the purpose of parachute jumping". For me, that's not going to be much use because I've installed the Leavens Bros door as part of...

Thanks Burl. I can't believe I'm the only person that's going to get cornered by someone in authority who insists that welding==major alteration, regardless. Having this information regarding the tailwheel in the public domain will make it easier for anyone else who finds themselves in the same pred...

Tom, thanks for your comments. It wasn't my hope to stir controversy and raise blood pressures and I'll feel badly if that's the outcome. Mostly what I wanted to do was humbly request that Burl explain to the group what he explained to me so that everyone can benefit from his authority and hard work...

Hi Burl, Thanks for taking the time this afternoon to help me through a simple-yet-tricky regulatory question on the Pawnee tailwheel Service Bulletin. As you know, I'm restoring 1241H as I work through A&P school and since the fabric was off anyway, I decided to be one of the first to go for th...

Best wishes to everybody in Yuma, from Eric and Dorothy the N1241H Restoration. Hope to see you all next year!

If you're still thinking about going to Oshkosh, go! I got to meet Jody and Brian in the new Type Hangar, and they directed me out to Michael Hoag's Sedan that was stunning! I got a zillion pictures of 1010H, they'll be priceless during the restoration of my Sedan, figuring out what goes where. Than...