Mailing List lml@lancaironline.net Message #24759
From: Walter and Margo Dodson <wdodson@bak.rr.com>
Sender: Marvin Kaye <marv@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Gasper valves (eyeball air vents)
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 14:01:02 -0400
To: <lml@lancaironline.net>
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. 
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)
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