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Re: Flying/TSA with artifical knee
"don,t have a answer ,BUT how,d the knee replacement go?? doc says I need two. can,t make up my mind left or right first?" I received my first replacement on 11 June this year. 1st card was given to me on 14 June as I checked out of the ward. Sept 9th I will find how soon I can get the second replaced, hope it is soon. I have not had any pain in replaced knee for some time. I had both knees that went bone on bone about the same time, as it felt like and sounded like due to the same grinding sounds from both. I had one knee that if I stepped on it just right, it felt as if it was going to turn backwards, but felt the same as the other. That was the one that I chose first. This sounds strange, but replace your best last as you will learn to depend on it till the pain leaves the new one. "I would not have both knees done at the same time!!!! Going to the bathroom is hard enough with 1 knee replacement" You will need to get yourself the seat riser (mine 4") along with the handles so that you can lower yourself slowly till the new apparatus pain starts to subside. Everything goes as it should for your surgery, and I can assure you that you will join the ranks and wish you had done this much earlier.280Views0likes0CommentsRe: Lost vent flap for exhuast shroud
The flapper shown in Gene&Ginny's post is what everyone is speaking of. Over the years and all three of our TT's, I have replaced seven or eight of these flappers. On occasion we forgot to fasten them down, and some disappeared with the locks still in the lock position. Last year we made it to the next CG and when I went to release the locks on the flap, it just fell to the ground. I came up with a fix to correct the manufacturers mistake. I took the flapper, trimmed the top rib off, cut an aluminum coat hanger just as long as the original pins and flapper were. I used Loctite STIK'N SEAL Outdoor Adhesive and glued the wire permanently on the flapper. Once the adhesive was completly cured, I bowed it just enough to slide it into the housing. We have made numerous trips with it since, and I still have the same flapper. The plastic of their flapper pins are just flimsy. I used aluminum as eventually steel might have caused problems with rust.433Views0likes0Comments
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