On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Berry Kercheval <berry@kerch.com> wrote:
> David Scheidt wrote:
> > The chisel works really well on anything that's large enough diameter,
> > particularly if you're going to replace the damn thing the screw goes
> > into.
> Yeah that woudl work, sometimes you have to keep both pieces; once I
> had to remove something like 28 screws, all at least 40 years old, from
> an airplane wing that held the landing gear in place; it was bad enough
> that the shock absorber bushings I was trying to access were $800 a
> side, if I had damaged any of the parts it would have gotten expensive!
> (That's why I no longer own a plane, by the way...)
Yeah, well, I don't work on airplanes. When someone is paying you
(well, the shop...) $70 an hour, it quickly becomes not worth it to
try and save something like a brake rotor or a shock absorber.
--
David Scheidt
dmscheidt@gmail.com
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