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At 10:06 AM 4/26/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>   A good example is the fuel shutoff valve for the header tank.  The 
> original was made by Kohler.  Kohler no longer makes that sort of 
> thing.  There is no authorized replacement, no matter how good it may 
> look or how bad of the one you have may be.  And you can't imagine how 
> hard it is to get the FAA to accept a perfectly good substitute.

It can't be that hard, because every time I see a collection of Ercoupes I
note
that the majority seem to have no through-panel fuel valve any more.

A counter-example has to be the brake master cylinders These, too, are
made
of 'unobtanium' but under Lee, Skyport got a nice STC to use a generic
homebuilder's master cylinder to replace and improve it. Analogous fuel
valves
are in the Aircraft Spruce catalog, some of which work remotely via a 
cable. It seems
to me it should be possible to do the same thing for fuel valves as was
done
for the brakes.

Greg


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