Rob,

In answer to your question about where to get a Ercoupe blueprint:

I bought the original blueprints for the Ercoupe for about $35 from
Center for Archival Collections, Jerome Library, BGSU, Bowling Green OH
43403.  The microfilm is poor quality and the parts are for the original
design so some prints are not up to date (for example, the side windows
do not include the bottom frame and stifener and the inside handle is
very different) but they helped me a lot in rebuilding my windows.

It is also getting harder to find a good microfilm reader - my local
library does not seem to have cleaned the innards of their reader since
1966.

Here is the info sent by the archivist before I ordered 
I also got two films with all back issues of 'Coupe Capers)

Susan M. Hughes
Micrographics Specialist
Center for Archival Collections Preservation Lab
Bowling Green State University
12764 Levis Parkway
Perrysburg, Ohio 43551
419/874-4128 or 419/372-2411
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/cac/cac.html

Rolls 2 and 3 of the Coupe Capers is available on vesicular film for
$27.50 per roll, or silver film for $32.50 per roll.  Because of the
nature of the contents roll 1, which contains the engineering drawings,
is
available only on silver film for $32.50.  Shipping and tax, if you are
an Ohio
resident, are additional.  Prepayment is required.

I would recommend for the Coupe Capers that you purchase the less
expensive 
vesicular film.  Silver film gives a bit better resolution on fine lines

hence the need to do the engineering drawings on silver film), but you 
will get an acceptable image from the printed pages of the Caper with 
the vesicular.  Vesicular does not scratch as easily and is
less expensive because the raw stock is cheaper.  I cannot bring out
consistantly acceptable images on vesicular from the engineering
drawings, as the lines can be quite fine, so we only offer that roll on
silver.  
Shipping costs for the 3 rolls is $5.00.  We are not set up to accept
credit cards; please send a check or money order payable to the Center
for
Archival Collections to: Center for Archival Collections, Fifth Floor,
Jerome
Library, Bowling Green, OH 43403, Attn: Susan Hughes.  
Thank you again and please do hesitate to contact me if you have any
questions.


David Abrams
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.ercoupe.com





-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 1998 9:25 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Fuselage Fixes

... In reading the Bulletins and Memos book memo #65
mentions a tail cone repair method. It cites a blueprint RM52-1 as
having the
method of repair. I would like to know where this blueprint can be
found,
Rob 3040H

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