[AT] 430V update

[Bo Hinch]

You don`t have to use a screw driver on the wing style .
http://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/hapages/cspec2600.php

On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 11:42 AM, Ron Cook <ron at lakeport-1.com> wrote:

> This didn't get to the list like I had intended.
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> > Spencer,
> >
> > Those Airloc fasteners are a WWII era sheet metal fastener used on
> > aircraft.  I have not run across an aircraft maintenance person that
> > likes them.  Two many slipped screwdrivers of the wrong size and style
> > leaving big scratches and gouges in the sheet metal. The surplus
> > inventory has apparently been used up.  You can check with a
> > cropduster that might have some on a used up early AgCat fuselage that
> > might have a decent one left on it.   Or a tractor salvage yard.  I
> > don't have any anymore.  There are or were a couple new ones on eBay,
> > but the cost was way too high at 14 bucks plus 8 shipping.  Davenport
> > Tractor has a replacement bolt that is a much better fastener, but of
> > course is not original equipment.
> >
> > Ron Cook, Salix, IA
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