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Live and Learn Ernest. Yeah, it’s all about the thread-count and paperwork.

The inspectors have no ability to assess the quality of your parts but know not to use plastic stop nuts FWF, that rotating parts need castle nuts and cotter pins and they love paperwork.

“As a builder, if you can count to three you can pass any inspection. Bolt a part of any quality to your homebuilt (Alternative Engine?) if you like (it’s your butt) as long as at least 1 thread and no more than 3 protrude past the nut, in combination with 3 or less washers. So learn how to measure bolts and get the thread count right.”

Jeff

From:	Ernest Christley <echristley@att.net>
Subject:	Anatomy of a failed AW inspection
Date:	Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:04:40 -0500
To:	Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>, dykedelta@yahoogroups.com
Cc:	Dawn Christley <ncptgal@gmail.com>

As many of you know, I called the Greensboro FSDO and scheduled an Airworthiness

Inspection. It was originally scheduled for last Friday, but got postponed due

to inclement weather. Wednesday turned out to be a shirt-sleeve day, and

perfect for an inspection inside a large, open hangar. When I called for the

inspection, I was expecting to get a date a couple months out. The quickness

of the schedule took me by surprise, but being the gung-ho guy I am, I went

for it.

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