The International Cessna 170 Association

I use AutoCAD. I use it enough to justify the yearly premium, mostly because the things I draw up are unobtanium. My next drawing projects are a mirrored 0523106 landing light bracket assembly to install a RH landing light in my airplane and inter-cylinder baffles for my Bonanza. :oops: I’m happy to...

For anyone remotely curious… I have fretted and analyzed and believe I have a solution with the baffling situation. After speaking with my IA and a DAR, they agree it’s a non-issue with respect to the legality. I’m going to delete the blast tube on the RH side and install a union from the later mode...

Brian, can you measure the distance from the center of the switch to the center of the circuit breaker?

Part looks great! I used Send Cut Send to cut my heater manifold and they did a very nice job. I’ve used Xometry for making a beacon mount for my Whelen 7108051 as well and was very pleased.

Robert Brown in Atlanta had some, but I think I might have gotten the last one.

Hi all, I’ve decided to double down on my insanity with my annual-turned refurbishment/restoration. While replacing my gear box extrusions, my IA pulled my front floorboards and it afforded me a little better glimpse up front with the rudder pedals and associated bits out of the way. I planned to do...

Occam’s Razor dulled significantly by the time he got to me. It would make sense that those would be hard lines.

Thanks for entertaining my stupidity.

Dovetailing into this, I’m replacing everything in my first annual it would seem. I told my IA I don’t even went to put air in the tires before the next annual. One of the hip bones connected to one of the leg bones in my airplane lead me into removing my rudder pedals and torque tube assembly which...

Hi all, I’m chasing a much smaller needle in a much larger haystack than I feel should be. I’m searching for a pair of gear fillet plates (0511124, figure 26 item 1). Quite a few suppliers have them for L-19s and Univair even makes them new for the L-19s but have refused my request to make some for ...

Has anyone had any contact with AWI recently? I’ve sent two unanswered inquiries to purchase two LH muffler shrouds for my airplane over the course of several weeks.

So the owner ended up reaching out to me. He’s a low time private pilot, and the nephew of the gentleman that’s owned the airplane since 1961 or 1962. He couldn’t recall the name of the axles, but did say that they only cant outward, so you can land crabbed on one gear only. I might see if I can tal...

In about 10K hours of flying, I’ve lost count of how many vacuum attitude indicators I’ve had fail. The GI-275 is a great instrument. Sounds like this was a discussion about lack of partial panel proficiency as much as it is one of component failure. I’m debating the investment of installing two of ...

I guess he wasn’t a manufacturer. I’ve always heard the name Geisse Associated with the crosswind gear.

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I’m a bit of a creep and stalk 170s at places I go. I have frequented Moontown (3M5) on the northeast side of Huntsville, AL both while transiting to Shreveport to see family, and also with Charlie Beyer while in town for work in a previous life. A 170 with an interesting story, N3101A, was hangared...

I don't believe that would be legal for any A&P to do, but not a surprise coming from Mike Busch. Mike’s company killed a guy with bad advice on a Baron 58 locally here. First flight after long term maintenance after eating a piston on an engine past TBO that they said to more or less replace t...

Hi all, I recently had an opportunity to purchase some flush rivet (later model) struts to replace the original Hi-Lok struts on my airplane (S/N 20408). I would like to get some new tie down rings to go with my shiny new(er) struts and a cursory search for them doesn’t turn up as many search result...