[TheForge] Today's drive-by gloat

[A. Vida]

Mike Spencer wrote:
> 
> Drove 200 miles up to Antigonish to collect a non-working 6 cyl
> Continental engine.  It's still a pig in a poke but:
> 
> Got a 7-1/2" leg vise for C$45.

	Congrats.  You rat. :)

> (I'll be back soon with a much more humble tone, asking for advice on
> the Connie engine. :-)

	If this is going to be put into an aircraft, you don't want to do
	anything with it but give it to a proper mechanic.  Even if you are
	a cert. aircraft mechanic, you should give it to someone else.
	Doing your own is like a lawyer defending himself.  Most of the
	mech/pilot types I know will not do their own annuals; better to
	have a different set of eyes on the task.

	Seriously, don't attempt to build an AC engine that will actually
	go into a plane.  That is probably insane.  Nothing less appealing
	than a power-on stall when you're 150 feet off the deck and you go
	tumbling into the path of a Union Pacific freight train, or just go
	face first into the ground at 100 knots.

	Next, a proper rebuild of a Conti will be quite costly.  I'd be
surprised
	if you get away with less than $5K if the work is a total build.

	If it's not for an aircraft, then forget everything I've said. :)

	-Andy