Struts value?

[Richard Boyer]

Any idea what I can sell my old struts for? I'm just looking for a ball park figure.

Thanks,

[barnstmr]

Re: Struts value?

Richard...
I seem to recall your struts were very wide chord compared to mine. What are the dimensions of the front and rear ones you are selling? Depending on these dimensions they may or may not suffice to make parts or repairs for certain other airplanes.
Regards

[Richard Boyer]

Re: Struts value?

The front strut has a wider cord than my replacements and the rear are identical. They will fit any BC12D though. It is the dimensions at the attach points that matter. They are currently packaged up so it isn't easy to measure them. They also include the clamp for the front struts.

[jim cooper]

Re: Struts value?

When I sold my BC12D (a real beauty) two months ago, I explained to the buyer it still had the old struts on it and that why I had reduced the price. It passed the annual but I lowered the price by 2000.00 to sell it. So it seems to me, you will have a harder time selling your T-Craft with the old struts. So its pay for new struts now, or, pay for them later. JC

[Larry Lyons]

Re: Struts value?

Jim you hit the nail on the head. I provide wells for drinking water and it never ceases to amaze me at how many people will drink rotten water and then have to provide good water for the new owner. The origonal home owner gets to pay for the good water but never gets the pleasure of drinking it! As the say "youes can pay me now or you can payes me later"!
Larry
PS: Sorry for the drift but this struck a cord.

[Bird]

Re: Struts value?

So you are saying that even if I get the old struts inspected and brought up to date I will always be behind the curve so to speak, the old ones will never be trusted?

[avenger1949]

Re: Struts value?

QUOTE=Bird;73489]So you are saying that even if I get the old struts inspected and brought up to date I will always be behind the curve so to speak, the old ones will never be trusted?[/QUOTE]

I bought a set of struts that tested good for 450.00 bucks for my Tcraft I later sold my bad ones to a guy building an experimental aircraft for 400.00 he cut the ends off and made them the way he wanted... so not a lot of money, but a set that passed and then were oiled saved me a bunch of money. At the time I sell my plane I will be to old to fly anyway so probably will sell it right after I have them inspected. Beside the inspection time might be 10 year apart by then or there may not be an inspection time at all.

[Hank Jarrett]

Re: Struts value?

If your struts pass, WAG Aero can change the ends and make them sealed for less than the cost of new sealed struts, but they do a GOOD job of inspecting. All 4 of mine failed inspection, but they didn't charge me for the inspections since I bought new struts, plus they sent me the red tagged struts back so I could use them when I need to take the struts off the 45, or I can use them on an experimental as materials.
WAG are good people to work with, conservative on their inspections (would you want them not to be?) but good people.
Hank

[xboeingdrvr]

Re: Struts value?

Hello, new to the T-craft ownership.....I have a F-19 (s/n-067) and was wondering what is the story with my struts? I just started the rebuild of aircraft, and sent struts to have D/T and they passed....any info would be appreciated.

[M Towsley]

Re: Struts value?

Look down the page on this link regarding struts (AD's): http://taylorcraft.org/resources.html