/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>966228
>Couple years go by
>Finally get around to painting the patch on the wing
>A few months later, some unknown person moves the airplane without permission and hits the wingtip on a pole, bending the metal wingtip bow
>Fabric around the bend has visible wrinkles and a minor rip
>A few flights later the wrinkles work their way out on their own
>Shortly thereafter the plane suffers a ground-loop with someone else at the controls, scraping a wingtip on the ground
>Runway scrapes through the fabric at the wingtip
>Out comes the same old roll of duct tape
>Still not patched to this day
>Finally get around to ordering a replacement fuel drain
>Decide to wait for a convenient opportunity to replace it when the tanks are low instead of draining up to 24 gallons from the tank
>Doesn't happen for MONTHS, since I can't break my habit of buying cheap avgas when the opportunity strikes
>Finally deliberately plan to fly off all but ~5 gallons of fuel and do the job
>Git er done
>Oil cooler bracket is in very sad shape by this point
>Briefly consider putting off a proper replacement and using JB-Weld to hold it together a bit longer
>Bite the bullet and bend a new bracket out of aluminum, twice as thick this time
And that's about where it's at now.