Original Posted By: "Cuy, Michael D. (GRC-RXD0)[Vantage Partners, LLC]"
Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: using inferior anything or cutting corners----justfly alone thenI saw a Piet at a little fly in. The guy had cut a lot of corners to build quicker.He had some rough looking welds. He did not round off some of the wood, lotsof square corners. He did not sand very much, if at all. He used latex paint....Very minimalist. BUT he spent the money to get aircraft grade materielsand things like the rough looking welds did look like they were strong and thewood was properly done, just not pretty. He also maintained that the differencein cost between cheap materiels and aircraft grade was just a small percentageof the final cost.His goal was to put togather a good, safe flying Piet and he did not care aboutlooks. He flew it in and out of the fly-in and others said he was a good aviatorand had built some other good homebuilts. Blue Skies,Steve D----- Original Message -----
Re: Pietenpol-List: using inferior anything or cutting corners----just
Re: Pietenpol-List: using inferior anything or cutting corners----just
Original Posted By: "Dortch, Steven D MAJ MIL USA NGB"
Steve, I agree with you. I will not have the prettiest, fanciest, most-sanded, contest-quality, Piet around. It will have pretty and STRONG welds (they are all done by an aircraft welder using his very expensive TIG machine). I did use some Douglas fir and some Poplar (neither bought at ACS) but I was talked into replacing my Douglas fir spars with VERY EXPENSIVE spruce wood from ACS. All my hardware is AN stuff from ACS. It will not be the prettiest airplane around but I won't hesitate to put my grandkids (or great grandkids) in the front seat and ride around in VFR weather. Chuck----- Original Message -----
Steve, I agree with you. I will not have the prettiest, fanciest, most-sanded, contest-quality, Piet around. It will have pretty and STRONG welds (they are all done by an aircraft welder using his very expensive TIG machine). I did use some Douglas fir and some Poplar (neither bought at ACS) but I was talked into replacing my Douglas fir spars with VERY EXPENSIVE spruce wood from ACS. All my hardware is AN stuff from ACS. It will not be the prettiest airplane around but I won't hesitate to put my grandkids (or great grandkids) in the front seat and ride around in VFR weather. Chuck----- Original Message -----