Thread: CTSW Salvage- need stabilator

I've been grounded due to stabilator foam core damage since 3/15/10. Does anyone know where
damaged CTSW's have gone for salvage? I'm trying to find a CTSW stabilator, 2006 model, full span trim tab.
I contacted Falcon Insurance (EAA) and Avemco to locate their salvage dealers, but neither have any
CTSW parts.
Its taking FD a while to make a new one for me!

Thanks for any info.

BMcCand sorry if I seem to jump in on your thread,
but I have need of salvage myself and am hoping for someone to reply also,
I was looking for

a window rail screw (appears it fell out from overtighting during assembly) and also
a piece of scrap windscreen for practicing repairs on.

Hello folks,
A week after I posted my plea, FDUSA informed me that the new stab. has arrived in a container from across the pond.
So I'm not looking for a used one any more.

The plane was stored outside in New England, under a tent and with a Bruce' tail cover in place. The damage was dimpling
of the lower surface of the stab, behind the presumed spar that runs left to right. The spar is just behind the notch where the
stab. mounts to the plane, and the dimpling was only behind that line.
I was careful to comply with SB#1, avoiding akaline cleaners. Unless the acid rain out here flipped , I don't see how chemical
damage could have done it. The root cause of the failure is still unknown.
FDUSA will be cutting a cross section out of the part, to send to FD Germany. FD has changed the foam core from Rohacell to
something else, sorry I forget what.

I'm going to get a T hangar for the plane as soon as I can; I'm on a waiting list at my current home field. Other nearby fields have only group
hangars, and I think a small composite plane without a tow bar would lose a hangar rash fight with a metal plane !
Even moving by hand by inexperienced people would probably get the sub-fin bashed against the ground.
My pretty new (in 2007) plane deserved a hangar all along, and now I've learned to trade that cost vs. maintenance.

I forgot to attach the pictures that FDUSA took. The damage area is extensive on one side of the bottom (shown).
I forgot to mention that I keep the seat belt around the stick, so the stab. is pulled up. This could be a mechanical cause... the weight. But I don't think snow got on to weigh it down.

The cover on the top would stretch the upper surface (which is Ok), but compress the lower where the damage is.
Or maybe water got in for a freeze/thaw cycle. I'm just guessing.