Recently, a very good friend of mine who's building a LongEze, and a Midget Mustang, has been having some problems with Wicks getting their Bolt Lengths correct. Wicks was sending him bolts that were consistantly 5 or 6 grip lengths different, when he called them on it, the Warehouse supervisor was, how shall I put this... Less than accomodating. My friend and I are both long time Aerospace Design Engineers, and shall I venture to say, know maybe more than just a little about Aircraft Standards and Aircraft Standard Hardware, considering we use these everyday? The Wick's Warehouse Supervisor was sending him bolts based on Total Length, NOT Grip Length. And then had told my friend that that's how they have been doing it for the last 30 years. Total length is the addition of Grip Length + Threaded Length. And in General terms are the last dash numbers of a callout in either 32nds or 16th inch increments. This Warehouse Supt. also told my friend that if you want to order bolts specificly by the grip length, to call and talk to him personally to verify that is what he wanted. Can you believe, that is then what my friend did. Can you guess what happened when he recieved his order? So after 3 or 4 tries to get the order corrected unsuccessfully, my friend just gave up and now uses a different source.
--- David Mikesell <skyguy...@skyguynca.com> wrote: > I placed a spruce order with Aicraft Spruce and > Specailty, no cuts just > straight stock off the shelves and they said it > would be 6 weeks, I placed > the same order with Wicks and received it 4 days > later called AS&S back and > cancelled the order.....AS&S called me back 6 weeks > later and said they were > ready to bundle the order and asked if I still > needed it. _______________________________________________ > > see KRnet list details at > http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html > > > _______________________________________________ > see KRnet list details at http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html ===== Scott Cable KR-2S # 735 Wright City, MO s2cab...@yahoo.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree
