Return-Path: Sender: (Marvin Kaye) To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 14:01:02 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [66.75.162.133] (HELO ms-smtp-01-eri0.socal.rr.com) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2) with ESMTP id 359828 for lml@lancaironline.net; Tue, 10 Aug 2004 13:38:33 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=66.75.162.133; envelope-from=wdodson@bak.rr.com Received: from WALTERXP (cpe-24-161-205-142.bak.rr.com [24.161.205.142]) by ms-smtp-01-eri0.socal.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with SMTP id i7AHc06k022076 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 2004 10:38:01 -0700 (PDT) X-Original-Message-ID: <002001c47f00$c5ce84b0$0100a8c0@WALTERXP> From: "Walter and Margo Dodson" X-Original-To: "Lancair Mailing List" Subject: Gasper valves (eyeball air vents) X-Original-Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 10:37:56 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_001D_01C47EC6.18FFACD0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_001D_01C47EC6.18FFACD0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I've been watching the thread on how expensive gasper valves have become = in the last few years. My kit was purchased with six gaspers and they = all went into the overhead console. It is an IV-P, N990Y. I see Mr. = Pastusek plans to build new gaspers and sell them for $65. I have = access to the bone yard in Mojave. My friend Mike Potter parts out = airplanes for a living. He currently has two MD-81's which are just = about stripped and ready to be scrapped next door for the aluminum. The = gasper valves usually aren't something that is requested by parts = buyers. I may be able to get them for $10 each and could sell them for = $50 each plus UPS charges. I plan to go to Mike's bone yard soon and = remove a valve to see if it is suitable for use in a homebuilt Lancair = or other type aircraft. =20 If you are interested please e-mail me directly off the LML at = wdodson@bak.rr.com. If there is enough interest and if I can buy the = valves from the aircraft owners and split my profit with Mike (lots of = ifs) I could make this happen. It seems like pleanty of work for $20 = per valve to me but you guys are worth it. Keep on building! Thanks, Walter Dodson 1895740 IA BSAME Northrop Tech '69 (ouch, I'm getting old) ------=_NextPart_000_001D_01C47EC6.18FFACD0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I've been watching the thread on how = expensive=20 gasper valves have become in the last few years. My kit = was purchased=20 with six gaspers and they all went into the overhead console. It = is an=20 IV-P, N990Y. I see Mr. Pastusek plans to build new gaspers and = sell them=20 for $65. I have access to the bone yard in Mojave. My friend = Mike=20 Potter parts out airplanes for a living. He currently has two = MD-81's=20 which are just about stripped and ready to be scrapped next door = for the=20 aluminum. The gasper valves usually aren't something that is = requested by=20 parts buyers. I may be able to get them for $10 each and could = sell them=20 for $50 each plus UPS charges. I plan to go to Mike's bone = yard soon=20 and remove a valve to see if it is suitable for use in a homebuilt = Lancair or=20 other type aircraft.

If you are interested please e-mail me = directly off=20 the LML at wdodson@bak.rr.com. If=20 there is enough interest and if I can buy the valves from the aircraft = owners=20 and split my profit with Mike (lots of ifs) I could make this happen. It seems like pleanty of work = for $20 per=20 valve to me but you guys are worth it. Keep on = building!

Thanks,

Walter Dodson 1895740 IA = BSAME Northrop=20 Tech '69 (ouch, I'm getting old)

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