What am I missing? strut replacement

[hangarb7]

I have a new IA and he disputes my Wag Aero struts that I had replaced a while back. Seems that the FAA website only shows Univair and Taylorcraft as the approved suppliers to terminate the AD. Not sure what to do... Is there an addendum to the 2008-04-09 that even today doesn't show any other approved suppliers.

[Ragwing nut]

tell your new IA to fully read the AD.

(i) A sealed front lift strut, P/N MA-A815, Univair P/N UA-A815, or FAA-approved equivalent P/N, a sealed aft lift strut, P/N MA-A854, Univair P/N UA-854, or FAA-approved equivalent P/N. Installing these lift struts terminates the repetitive inspections required by this AD for that strut and no further action is required.

If your lift struts are sealed, then the AD is terminated.

[Robert Lees]

Get a better newer IA. Sell the old one out to the FAA for incompetence and unprofessionalism. He or she needs to be sent packing.

[3Dreaming]

Tell your IA to read the AD a little closer, because there is a third option for sealed struts.

At the time the AD was written Univair and Taylorcraft were the only ones who were producing sealed struts. Univair was producing them prior to the AD. Alaska Airframes and Wag-Aero came after the fact. The AD gives three choices Univair, Taylorcraft, or an FAA approved equivalent. The struts from Wag-Aero meet the third option, because they are a FAA approved equivalent. That third option was added because the FAA knew there would be late comers to the game.

[Scott]

You should have in your documentation, a release from Wag with references to the approval requirements and also a sentence specifying the work meets the terminating requirements for the ad.

If you don't have I'm sure Wag will send you a copy.
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[hangarb7]

BTW, since we have lost so many older inspectors here locally, my choices are to wait for one guy who is overburdened and tells me that he can't get to it this year.... to two newly minted IA's who are terrified of rag n tube airplanes. This was one of the new guys. He looked over my airplane with eyes like dinner plates. Deer in the headlight look...... the new guys prefer to work with spamcans. thanks for all your help.

[Hank Jarrett]

This is why we have to take GOOD CARE of our old time IAs! We also need to start taking our newly minted A&Ps and IAs out to some fly in breakfasts to see that antique planes are safe, fun and fairly easy to work on. Once a mechanic works on a Taylorcraft they will cringe at that spam can that is so hard to open up and so needlessly complex!

[hangarb7]

yeah, I did something that literally startled him. There was an inspection ring added at the main lift strut ahead of the spar, some time after recover in 1989. It always bothered me as to why someone added it later, but only on the right wing. So, for grins and giggles but also for curiosity, I added one this time on the left wing. All was ok. My two old inspectors wouldn't have blinked. You would think that I did a major airframe alteration to the space shuttle.

[astjp2]

Where are you located?

[Ragwing nut]

BTW, since we have lost so many older inspectors here locally, my choices are to wait for one guy who is overburdened and tells me that he can't get to it this year.... to two newly minted IA's who are terrified of rag n tube airplanes. This was one of the new guys. He looked over my airplane with eyes like dinner plates. Deer in the headlight look...... the new guys prefer to work with spamcans. thanks for all your help.

The problem is what he missed in the AD list could have applied to the spamcans he wants to work on. You probably know more than he does about it. You might try and educate him some.

[hangarb7]

To answer asjtp2, I am near Pittsburgh, PA. N44057 is hangared at FWQ, Rostraver Airport.

So that IA sent me a text last night. He will not sign off work he has not done himself. I was nice but made sure he knew that if he was going to be in this business and have customers with old airplanes, that he had better get comfortable with owner assisted annuals.

[astjp2]

Well then at least you know your limits, now to get a good I/A

[Hank Jarrett]

If I had a Beech Jet I could understand an IA not wanting me in the way (understand it, not accept it). On a single engine, non electrical system hand prop light plane under 100 HP? What is it he doesn't want you to see? Sorry , but I would RUN, not walk away from an IA who wouldn't allow owner assist on one of our planes. His right to say no, mine to leave. I would say you should LEAVE, and not let him touch your plane.

[astjp2]

Well you can always buy me a plane ticket…