Original Posted By: "Butch Pennewell"
There are plenty of "non-critical" items in a Piet where alternative techniquesand materials can be subsituted in the name of frugality or experimentation.Latex paint, or good quality Douglas fir, etc, come to mind. While everyonecan appreciate the need/desire to be frugal, with critical items such as hardware,fitting metal, good quality wood, glue etc, it seems that the real amountof money saved cannot compare with your life. I think there is enough goingthrough one's mind in a plane they built during heavy turbulance, that addingany doubt about the integrity of structural items seems highly undesireable.$.02________________________________________________________________________________