kmacht wrote:Rob,
I tried pming you but it’s stuck in the outbox and won’t send.
I only ever recall going to see a partially built kit with one other builder. It was a quickbuild kit for an aerovee tri gear but with no motor yet. The person and I met at the parking lot for my job in East Hartford and we drove up together to see the plane. He ended up buying it a few weeks later. Soon after he asked both myself and another local sonex builder if he could borrow some tools as he was waiting on an order from Wicks that had things on back order. The other builder declined but I foolishly lent out about 50 clecos and a pair of cleco pliers as you couldn’t buy them locally. He then stopped answering emails and texts and I never heard from him again. It’s not that I couldn’t afford to lose those tools but it left a really bad taste in my mouth that someone could spend thousands on a used kit but then essentially steal tools to build it with. I’m currently out of the country and can’t easily search my old email and texts until I get back next week but when I do if it somehow turns out to not be you I’ll post a retraction and apology.
Keith
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Well, the situation sounds similar with some differences. I met you at a restaurant/shopping mall type of place, and we drove together to see a kit build (non-quickbuild) tri-gear Sonex with the Aerovee already installed on the fuselage. The kit had already been painted orange. Do you remember the color of the kit?
was it painted at all? After inspection, and your recommendation that I buy it, we returned to the parking lot and that was it. Do you remember the vehicle/color they were driving? I recall only meeting you in person that one time. We did have a lengthy email discussion on the Corvair and Aerovee, I have record of that. How did you deliver the cleco's and pliers to this person? I went and looked at my aircraft tools and I only have one pair of pliers and clecos I'm pretty sure came from AS. Mine are like new, I only built a flap.... Additionally, my email has been the same for around 30yrs, and my phone number the same for at least 20yrs. I also know only one Sonex builder locally that I have met, and that is you. FWIW, I have some fairly specialized tools for automotive work and I have lent them out repeatedly over the years, through forums like this, and they have always come back. I can understand why you would be upset. I just can't imagine I would forget something like this, let alone ignore emails and texts. This is making me question my own sanity a bit, but I'm pretty sure you have the wrong guy. I look forward to you sifting through old emails and texts.