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Don’t care if you follow, it’s my logbook entry and my A&P number. That’s like saying you shouldn’t use a lock washer with a locknut lol.

Ev even when properly crimped, you still stress the exterior of the wire bundle. Heat, vibration, and time can exacerbate that process, leading to the outside of the bundle fraying and breaking. I’ve seen the center of a 2 gauge wire pull out of a well crimped terminal, but the center wire...

No, you just solder it after the crimp side, not on the wire side

Check the wire that runs out of the alternator circuit breaker and feeds your main buss. We had one that was avionics cycling on and off. Looked under the dash and the insulation had melted off the wire. They had a STC higher amp alternator and replaced all the wires with a bigger gauge...

You’re gonna need to weigh it…. Has it ever flown in its current configuration? Maybe taxi it over to a shop who can do it for you at your airport. They have portable scales too, so someone can come to you. A lot of people have died flying home built or project planes that have a bad CG

I’ve started a YouTube channel for some of the things we see in our GA shop. It’s not like a “how to”, mainly we just show things we find that are bad, and talk about how we may fix it. It’s been challenging compiling all the clips, because everyone is airdropping me things. Just curious...

There’s only two oil conditions that should worry you. Very light brown, runny oil, gas is getting past the rings (mostly happens on forced induction aircraft)…. Or shiny sparkly oil……

Recently posted a YouTube video about this on a 172S. Alternator power wire broken in the same place. People over crimp terminals and it stresses the wire at the crimp making it brittle. Also on stuff inside the cowl we always crimp, solder the end and run heat shrink over it for extra support.

We’ve done a few STC remote oil filter housings recently and if you run air to them properly you can get 20-30 degrees cooler temps. We in Alabama so they always hot

Box aviation in Montgomery could do it. Half their guys are post military sheet metal so they don’t shy away