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Confession - I have the shop change the oil. I don’t have a hangar. I might someday get the quick drain, safety wire pliers, some type of oil container, find a place to take used oil, buy an oil filter cutter, get the tarps and what not. But for now it’s just so convenient to have the local guy do it.

And lets me keep doing fun things at home. For example, I’m in the middle of ripping out and re dry packing, re panning the tiled shower in basement.

I’m doing the tile demo and rebuild because I couldn’t find anyone who could do it. I guess I’m trading some things like the oil change time - I know the guy will do it right - for time on things I have to do myself.
 
flyingron said:
Even when I had a quick drain, you still have to remove and cut the filter, box up the sample, ditch the used oil, put on a new filter, refill the oil, and test run the aircraft. It would still be a rush to get it done in an hour.
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Well, ya don't have to. We didn't. We would have, had there been any change in oil consumption, engine noise, etc. But otherwise not.
 
I would love to only pay $400 for my transponder and altimeter 24-month certification. The rest look right in line with what I pay.
 
Kenny Phillips said:
Well, ya don't have to. We didn't. We would have, had there been any change in oil consumption, engine noise, etc. But otherwise not
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We're not talking about whether you have to, but whether the rate charged for what they siad hey did (they say they did) is valid. Of course, if they billed for cutting the filter and they did not, then we have a problem.
 
In OP's defense, I distinctly remember as a little kid, that the coke machine in our office was set at 15 cents, which was cost to us of a bottle, because we didn't want to "rip people off" like other places that had it set to 25. In my office, the pepsi machine takes credit cards and it's just under $3.
 
Albany Tom said:
In OP's defense, I distinctly remember as a little kid, that the coke machine in our office was set at 15 cents, which was cost to us of a bottle, because we didn't want to "rip people off" like other places that had it set to 25. In my office, the pepsi machine takes credit cards and it's just under $3.
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Not only has Coke raised the price, they’ve cut the ingredients. Coke hasn’t been the same since they took the coke out. Total ripoff.....
 
WDD said:
Confession - I have the shop change the oil. I don’t have a hangar. I might someday get the quick drain, safety wire pliers, some type of oil container, find a place to take used oil, buy an oil filter cutter, get the tarps and what not. But for now it’s just so convenient to have the local guy do it.

And lets me keep doing fun things at home. For example, I’m in the middle of ripping out and re dry packing, re panning the tiled shower in basement.

I’m doing the tile demo and rebuild because I couldn’t find anyone who could do it. I guess I’m trading some things like the oil change time - I know the guy will do it right - for time on things I have to do myself.
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Ask your FBO if they have a waste oil container. We have one at VPC. Someone decided that was a better alternative than the owners dumping the used oil in the ditch.
 
Gary Ward said:
When we were drag racing, every pit had there own 55 drum for waste oil.
Everyone burned leaded fuel except the alcohol classes, we burned methanol.
At the end of a 4 day race I bet there was hundreds of gallons of old oil left behind in those drums.
Luckily here in this part of the country it doesn't matter. We have a dump tank at work, the recycler doesn't ask questions before he sucks it out.
Never knew it was a thing...
Our drum has portable parts washer set up on top, we use gas in a pressurized spray to clean parts. The sump held 18 qts and it got new oil every pass down the track.
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In IndyCar SafetyKleen had a contract to take waste fluids. I would take a jug down to their setup when it was full and dump it into their tank.
 
AV8R_87 said:
He has to remove your altimeter(s), do a leak check on them on the bench at 18000ft, then reinstall them.
Hook up a pitot/static test set (that needs to be calibrated) to the aircraft, do a leak check on the system, troubleshoot the adapters if there's a leak (before he assumes it's your side of the system that's leaky), get a transponder test set (also needing periodic calibration) to ping your transponder, then run the pitot/static test set from -1000 to 18000 ft in 1000ft increments (500ft for lower altitudes), multiple times while checking your altimeter(s) and altitude encoder for accuracy. It's not a 5 minute test.
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AND needs to purchase and maintain the testing equipment, which is costly. The IFR cert price is pretty typical in my part of the world.
 
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