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NorCalTim
Explorer
Oct 27, 2015

I almost lost my gas tank! (Lippert fail / pic heavy)

So, we really don't use the fiver much now days, starting when the kids got in high-school. (2008 Sierra fifth-wheel toy hauler that doesn't really haul toys.) We take it out a couple times a year... ...
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laknox
Nomad
Oct 31, 2015
rjxj wrote:
It's 7 years old.


Crazy thing is, Beechcraft, Piper and Cessna would get sued over "product liability" issues on aircraft that were 50-60 years old...and =lose=. At one time, the price paid by a customer for a Beech was, roughly, 25% airframe, 50% avionics and 25% product liability set-aside. When our Congresscritters changed the tort laws to limit this to 18 years, Cessna and Piper both went back into production with new models the next day.

Lyle

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