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From: masys@nlm.nih.gov (Dr. Daniel R. Masys)
Newsgroups: rec.aviation
Subject: Re: Engine Overhauls
Message-ID: <1990Sep19.125628.1892@nlm.nih.gov>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 90 05:56:28 PDT
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In article <1540228@hpfcmgw.HP.COM> roger@hpfcmgw.HP.COM (Roger Jollis) writes:
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>My questions:
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>4.  Has anybody done business with Nick Carter Aviation Supplies? 
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I drove to Bristol Tennessee and bought a zero time Lycoming O-320 from
Nick Carter a couple of years ago.  They are a flambouyant bunch, but they
are for real.  Their wharehouse is stacked to the ceiling with new engines
in factory boxes (I saw perhaps 50 new Continentals and 50 new Lycomings
there), and their on-site machine shop is, like their ads say, clean enough
to eat from the floor (I didn't, thanks).  While I was doing the paperwork
to buy an engine on a Saturday morning, they sold four additional engines
by phone.  I'll probably buy my next engine from them, since their zero
time factory remans are less expensive than Mattituck overhauls.

>5.  Has anybody had experience with engine core trades and the expected refund
>    on a high time engine such as the one I describe above?

The engine I traded in had a broken exhaust valve, a hole in the piston,
and the crankshaft was frozen so the engine could not be preserved the way
that the Lycoming factory requires on return cores.  They allowed full credit.
Short of obvious abuse, it's almost certain you will get your full core
deposit allowance on a small Lycoming.
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Dan Masys
masys@mcs.nlm.nih.gov