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I think that's the problem here - a big length of safety-wire between two bolts, obviously pulling one in the 'loosen' direction. Right on the front of the engine, plain as day, and yet the mechanic didn't cut it off and re-do it. Was he apathetic or ignorant? If he can't get such a simple task right or be bothered to fix it when wrong, what else might be lurking, sight unseen? [/quote]


Thank you Kirk, my point exactly.

Ya know, I saw that, and it kinda bothered me, but I didn't catch it! It looked funky - the two bolts with the oddball safety bwire, but just didn't register. Plain as day too.

Oh my...

Mea culpa!

I do understand your reasoning, and if I knew the technician, I might agree with you. But, there's no way to know if this is apathy, ignorance, or simply oversight! Based on my own experience, I think it's more than likely just oversight.

Tell me you guys have never looked high and low for something lost that was "hidden" in plain sight! Same thing. We all sometimes see what we expect to see. He may have walked by it 15 times and never noticed, and finally seeing it on the 16th look would swear it wasn't like that before (my colleagues at work were famous for that! Somebody must've changed it when they weren't looking!) This is why I always have someone else inspect my work, especially when it's going to be hidden from view. I learned that in the Navy, where they understood how this happens, and required Collateral Duty Inspector sign-off and Quality Assurance Inspector sign-off for almost every task performed on an airplane!

My other post still stands! Take nothing for granted! Have a good look!

Maybe he mixed rods and rod caps during the rebuild? That'd be interesting after a few flights. Just food for thought.

Bengie

Not trying to be disagreeable, Tim, however my wet vac line runs under my engine to the separator and has nothing to do with the engine breather line. I realise there can be different installations. Are there those systems for 150s (maybe the M20) that separate oil from both the engine breather and from the wet vac? Nonetheless, I don't care for the largish gap left where the hose runs through the baffling.

Dang, I looked right at that blasted safety wire. Well, Jim, you did say micro, didn't you? I saw dang near everything else mentioned, but thought those couldn't be it. Right there in front.....

Wow, I'm glad no money changed hands! I thought I took a good look at the pictures, too.

Nevermind. I answered my own question with a quick search. I honestly didn't know they'd do both.

Gawd! I am in the middle of a great big brain fart here. But, I just do not recall ever having an actual title in hand with either of our two airplanes?? And I do not recall signing a title over to John with 72G? Just the aircrafts registration. Am I loosing it here??

No real such thing as an airplane title.

The registration and A/W certs are the only real "title" an aircraft owner has.