---------------------------------------------------------- TeamGrumman-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Fri 10/07/05: 4 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 08:48 PM - What's Close to Alameda? (Steven Jackson) 2. 08:53 PM - Re: What's Close to Alameda? (Cory Emberson) 3. 09:11 PM - Re: What's Close to Alameda? (Rick Pollack) 4. 11:35 PM - Air Filters (TeamGrumman@aol.com) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 08:48:33 PM PST US From: "Steven Jackson" Subject: TeamGrumman-List: What's Close to Alameda? --> TeamGrumman-List message posted by: "Steven Jackson" Anyone from the San Fran area recommend the best airport to use if I'm going to Alameda, CA? Hayward? Steve Jackson ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 08:53:16 PM PST US From: "Cory Emberson" Subject: RE: TeamGrumman-List: What's Close to Alameda? --> TeamGrumman-List message posted by: "Cory Emberson" Hi Steve, I'm based at Hayward - it's only an 11-mile drive from downtown Alameda. Oakland's a little closer, but Hayward's not quite as busy. Best, Cory -----Original Message----- From: owner-teamgrumman-list-server@matronics.com [mailto:owner-teamgrumman-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of Steven Jackson Subject: TeamGrumman-List: What's Close to Alameda? --> TeamGrumman-List message posted by: "Steven Jackson" --> Anyone from the San Fran area recommend the best airport to use if I'm going to Alameda, CA? Hayward? Steve Jackson ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 09:11:04 PM PST US From: "Rick Pollack" Subject: Re: TeamGrumman-List: What's Close to Alameda? --> TeamGrumman-List message posted by: "Rick Pollack" I always fly into Oakland if I need to get somewhere on the East Bay. Rick SMO --> TeamGrumman-List message posted by: "Steven Jackson" Anyone from the San Fran area recommend the best airport to use if I'm going to Alameda, CA? Hayward? Steve Jackson ________________________________ Message 4 _____________________________________ Time: 11:35:34 PM PST US From: TeamGrumman@aol.com Subject: TeamGrumman-List: Air Filters --> TeamGrumman-List message posted by: TeamGrumman@aol.com Last week, I did an annual on a Tiger that had an automotive air filter in it. I would think that there should be some kind of legal liability, but, the mechanic never entered anything in the logs saying the air filter was changed. No enties at all in the engine logs back to 2000. ----------- Today. I took out an air filter that was decomposing. Pieces of the foam element were plastered against the screen on the inlet to the carb. I can only inagine the pieces that got but the screen. According to the logs, Cliff Hanson installed it in 2001. Some 700+ hours ago. The annuals since then are so vague and incomplete that, for all practical purposes, they are meaningless. The owner had done the last oil change. The safety wire had about 2 inches of loose wire and was tied to the wrong side. All of the hoses and wires are, it appears, routed to intentionally make ANY maintenance as difficult as possible. The oil cooler hoses are plumbed to the wrong side of the oil cooler. The fuel hoses are plumbed to the right side of the carb as opposed to the left side. The fuel flow transducer was mounted wrong. The prop was installed wrong. The plane is filthy. There is oil and dirt everywhere. The owners don't appear to care what kind of maintenance and attention this plane is given as long as it's cheap. The owners, all three of them, don't appear to be too concerned for their safety. Oh, yea, flying the plane to Auburn, the #2 com didn't work. The intercom was noisy. The GPS data base was 1998 and wouldn't stay locked on. I won't be doing a second annual on this plane. I won't polish a turd. Gary