Jim, 39H has single, 610 has the other .39H lands much nicer in all respects Ken in Mo. -----Original Message----- From: Robert Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Monday, January 10, 2000 4:50 PM Subject: Re: [[COUPERS] coupe expenses]
>Glen, thanks for your advice. I am getting a lot of very valuable >information which I am compiling for future reference when I start looking >individual coupes over. A lot of time has passed (32 years) since I owned a >coupe and as you point out there are problems now that didn't exist when I >bought mine. Bob > > >>From: Glen Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Re: [[COUPERS] coupe expenses] >>Date: 10 Jan 00 00:35:36 EST >> >>Hi, >>You have probably gotten a lot of responses but let me put my little bit >>in. >>I would say first and foremost, look at the engine. You can fix airframe >>stuff (though something like a corroded rear spar might run $3,500) but a >>major overhaul costs around $7,000-$10,000. I know because I bought mine >>in >>October and now it has blown something in there. May be serious, may not >>be, >>but with an overhaul dating to 1966 it needs redone. Turns out that though >>it >>has only 750SMOH, in one 7-year period it ran a total of 14 hours! Either >>it >>sat rusting or somebody lied about the time. This uncertainty about time >>is >>common with the coupes so you have got to be really careful about that, so >>inspect the logs carefully and see what the total time was at each annual >>and >>the calendar time since overhaul - more than 10 or 15 years is getting up >>there a bit. Hardly any Ercoupe flies enough to make it to TBO - most of >>them >>get top overhauled at around 700 or so due to sitting. I have a hunch that >>the age of the cylinders and other parts on the C75s-85s is making them >>more >>troubleprone. Millenium cylinders or similiar would be worth paying extra >>for. Also, get the baggage compartment bottom up and look inside the >>lightening holes in the tailcone to inspect the back of the rear spar. The >>front is easier to inspect but the rear gets corroded far worse from >>moisture >>from the seam in the fairing there. My coupe is amazingly cheap to operate, >>and it is best run on car gas because the lead does it no good. Glen Ward >> >> >>____________________________________________________________________ >>Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 > >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > >_________________________________________________________________________ __ _____ >To unsubscribe from this list please send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >_____________________________________________________________ >Keep up with breaking news! Join our Hot Topics list. >http://www.topica.com/lists/breakingnews/t/12 > __________________________________________________________________________ ______ To unsubscribe from this list please send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _____________________________________________________________ Keep up with breaking news! Join our Hot Topics list. http://www.topica.com/lists/breakingnews/t/12
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