Hello Kent.
MT in Germany actually goes on vacation starting Dec. 21 till Jan 6.
49-94-29-9409-19. He is in charge of sales. Their time is 7 hours ahead of
your midwest time.
Good luck.
Hi Kent,
I'll walk over to MT America on Monday morning (Diemech's hangar is across the taxiway) and talk to Dave (general manager) for you,
see if there's another solution. I'll pop you an email when I know something.
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From: Kent <kent@tulsaconnect.com>
To: lml@lancaironline.net
Sent: Saturday,
December 1, 2012 3:42 AM
Subject: [LML] Re: Lancair POH's Online
Customer brought in a Beech A36 with a recently new MT prop with a
“chrome”
spinner.
Composite (fiberglass) with a chrome like plating on it.
And to my regret, I dropped the cone! Scuffed near the
tip and a crack in the
plating.
So I fess up to the operator and said I replace it...
Called the US distributor and talked to John
Neilsen.
He informs It will take until sometime in January to order one from the mfg,
because the Germans go on holiday from now till then..
(good for them)
Though He can offer a replacement which he has in stock in his warehouse for
$1200.
(!!!!)
BUT, he tells me what they
do when accidents happen... is send theirs to a
place on the East Coast.
http://www.muellercorp.com/
It seems the chrome process is
actually an aluminum vacuum coating process...
Mueller charges $250 to replate. I should take the cone to a body shop and
have them sand
off the coating and respray a perfect coat of primer.. so that
all Mueller has to do is wipe down clean and coat.
Hint is to provide Mueller a
perfect speciman. (Like any chrome shop needs)
Unfortunately, my customer is not willing to give me ten days for turnaround
time...
The MT rep says his own Beech has a painted spinner! Because he knows the
overhead associated with a polished spinner.
Myself, I think
the workmanship with the original spinner is lacking. It
appears someone probably placed circle masks over the screwholes to block the
plating
there.
But the mask were lopsided. Also a few of the screwholes has the coatings
wrinkled around the hole. The coating is corrupted by the
wrinkles and my
opinion its only a matter of time till it flakes away more.
$1200 friggin US dollars for a substandard part!
By
the way, AAR in OKC dynamic balanced the prop after installation...
initial readings was 0.72 IPS!!! Way out!! They placed two stacks of washers
on the bulkhead.
gee whiz. where is my bourbon?
Kent Felkins
Tulsa
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