Eliacim; Ah, too bad I didn't know about the tach. There's an almost new one sitting in the cabinet of my Ercoupe room at the hangar! How did the header tank cap work out?
This is a WARNING to all you guys and gals that have the idea of one day upgrading and possibly abandoning your Ercoupe ties. You can't! You'll always come back to your first love! HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL! Al DeMarzo Visit the Ercoupe Swap Page - Free and Easy http://www.ercoupeowners.com/swap/swapbook.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: heavensounds To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 3:58 AM Subject: Re: [ercoupe-flyin] RE: Type Club Ralph Bear with me for a second. With the things I got when I bought my Coupe, I got a brand new cheap Chinese tach. Now that my Ercoupe tach has gone bad, my A&P IA (quite correctly) won't sign the Chinese tach as a replacement, so I had to buy a new, certificated one. My first tought was to sell the Chinese tach on E Bay, but instead, I saved it as the very first part for my Sonex (the poor man's RV?) Just a simbolic baby step... Like you, I feel so limited by the whole TSO / certificated / 337 / field approval process... Unlike you, I would try hard to keep the Coupe, even if I ever get to build the Sonex. Best Regards Eliacim Now thatI inherited ----- Original Message ----- From: Ralph Finch To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 9:38 AM Subject: [ercoupe-flyin] RE: Type Club I can only contribute opinions to this discussion, not constructive suggestions, but here they are anyway. I was a member of EOC when I first bought my Alon in 2001, but quit renewing a year or two ago. When it switched to an online newsletter I quit noticing it and got the information I needed from these email lists. Basically if I'm going to pay money for something there has to be a value returned! I'm a member of AOPA, for instance, for one reason: their lobbying and advocacy in Washington. I don't read their magazine much these days. I certainly agree that we Coupers could be more effective in dealing with the FAA. How that is to be achieved I leave to wiser heads than mine. I look at the Coupes as I do aging parents: with great affection and the wistful knowledge they are static or declining as the world moves on. Whereas RVs and their kind are like children: chaotic, energetic, and the future. Therefore next month--January--I'm going to start building an RV-9A, and in a couple of years when it's time to put on an engine I'll sell my Alon to purchase the engine. Not because I don't like the Coupe, but because I'm ready for something almost twice as fast that I can put things on, like an autopilot or solid state gyros, that are both better and cheaper than the TSO's/certificated stuff. Ralph Finch
