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As far as I am concerned, this is a non issue. We have already removed so much lead from what is burned in cars,trucks, lawn mowers and every other gasoline powered engines that this is like worrying about a grain of sand on the beach. It is pointless. If you weren't poisoned as a kid by handling lead 30 years ago , I don't think you could encounter enough lead laying around from man's use and disposal to poison a mouse. C'mon people just accept the fact that this is all about government control and has nothing to do with real environmental issues. Do away with lead and you take GA out of the air and do away with bullets all at the same tme. An environmental whacko , tree hugger's dream come true. Wake up and see this for what it really is.

I sure hope they have changed to way they used to do things. A friend if mine bought one of those as an experimental that he supposedly built at the factory. Now if you knew the owner , you would know that he couldn't put a nut on a bolt or twist two wires together. But some how his name ended up as the builder of this airplane. On the test flight in Florida they couldn't get the gear down so it was put down in the grass on it's belly and buckled the aluminum skin that covered the tail boom back to the water rudder. They never fixed it and sent it home that way with the new owner. On the way up north the battery puked and the gullible new owner got to buy a new battery!!! The owner told us that he was told that you had to slam the lever forward to get the gear to lock in the down position. We picked it up and sat it on some big blocks of soft styrofoam and excercised the gear a couple times. There are two turnbuckles that adjust the cable to the gear. One of them was so misadjusted that there wasn't enough travel to push the gear all the way down so the over center lock could travel far enough. So we showed the owner what was going on and we attempted to adjust the turnbuckle. Guess what? The turnbuckle was made with right hand threads on both eye bolts. So when you turned it, it merely tightened one side as it loosened the other. Did nothing to adjust the over cable length. So we just loosened the cable clamps and adjusted the cable that way and got it right on the first or second try, So now we know why they put it down in the grass. Before we found this however the right gear had collapsed on landing and ground a big whole in the very rear of the hull so it could then take on water. These are great little airplanes but who ever put that one together didn't know how a turnbuckle was supposed to work and didn't notice this one was not working right. I'd be really careful and inspect the daylights out of one of these before I ever got in one.