BeechTalk - BT

Username Protected · **Posted:** 31 May 2019, 20:12

$7500 dollar engine is sold.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 31 May 2019, 20:39

Username Protected wrote:

Quintessential oral exam guestion on multi practical is whether the dipsticks are interchangeable.

And that answer on the oral exam would be NO...the dipstick on each engine is slightly different, they are not designed to be interchangeable.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 05 Jun 2019, 13:04

Username Protected · **Posted:** 08 Jun 2019, 10:24

Free bump, and because someone sent me an odd PM (probably alcohol induced) off this thread at 1 in the morning.

:rofl:

I forgot to post back after looking more closely. The dipstick LENGTHS and shapes are identical. The markings are very different.

The index lines are much more closely spaced on the right engine than the left. I suspect because like someone else mentioned, the wing dihedral leaves the oil pooling inboard, so where the dipstick rests in the pan on the right engine a small level increase is much more oil on the right side than the left.

Learned something new today, thanks all!

To the OP, GLWS!

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Username Protected · **Posted:** 24 Jun 2019, 20:26

Username Protected · **Posted:** 24 Jun 2019, 20:33

There is a C55 in nice shape with runout engines on Barnstormers. This engine plus the one I’m replacing in Sep and will be putting up here would make a nice mid time plane for someone.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 25 Jun 2019, 17:22

Username Protected wrote:

There is a C55 in nice shape with runout engines on Barnstormers. This engine plus the one I’m replacing in Sep and will be putting up here would make a nice mid time plane for someone.

If it’s the one with the nice panel, the thing is a corrosion nightmare. It’s been frankensteined back together all throughout the baggage and spar box area

Username Protected · **Posted:** 25 Jun 2019, 18:25

Username Protected wrote:

There is a C55 in nice shape with runout engines on Barnstormers. This engine plus the one I’m replacing in Sep and will be putting up here would make a nice mid time plane for someone.

If it’s the one with the nice panel, the thing is a corrosion nightmare. It’s been frankensteined back together all throughout the baggage and spar box area

Username Protected · **Posted:** 25 Jun 2019, 23:43

Yea, I looked at that one. The log books spell out a constant battle with corrosion in the tail and cargo area. The corrosion repairs were spread out over a 10 year period and then they did that pretty paint job... which to me is a good way to cover everything. The seller says its all taken care of but they basically took a salvaged plane, cut out a bunch of sections and stitched them into that aircraft. It was "sold" in February and the sale fell through after a prebuy. He's raised and lowered the price a few times. Right now its worth about half what he's asking. I'd be really afraid to get into an airframe with corrosion history so bad that had to cut sections out.

Username Protected wrote:

There is a C55 in nice shape with runout engines on Barnstormers. This engine plus the one I’m replacing in Sep and will be putting up here would make a nice mid time plane for someone.

FS: Baron engines