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Old 11th Jul 2014, 11:03
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cockney steve
 
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I suggest you contact CTL if you were unhappy with the service rather than airing your grief here.
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R2

Firstly, I'm an outsider, not even a PPL !
Having said that, I did not construe the OP's post as having a go at CTL.
What I did get, is he's more tan a bit upset with Robbu bending him over and yet again inserting the rough end of a pineapple.

Of course, they will have a very strict "airworthiness" regime and repairability criteria.

As long as the authorities allow it, it's in Robinson's financial interest to scrap as many parts as they can, in order to sell replacements THEY ARE NOT IMPARTIAL (or objective) Fact is, there is a company who have the ability and the technology to make an airworthy repair.

If you were told your car was irrepairable, sold it for scrap-value, shelled out for a new replacement and then saw your old one had been repaired at well under , say, half the new one's price......wouldn't you be just a teeny bit upset?

Fact is, he was told the blades are scrap....that's a LIE
" They cannot be used in the UK, but a USA machine can use them , as an American Company can repair them, legally and safely"
There you go, an honest answer.

Whether the price he'd get, would be worth the paperwork, packing and shipping, is another issue....as , presumably, the original engineer, the UK Composite specialist, the US repairer and the vendor tothe end user, all make a profit on these "scrap" blades, I suspect it would be worthwhile to sell direct to the US repairer.

To the OP....have a look at the GUIMBAL thread......AFAIK, he doesn't give any warranty, but doesn't shaft you either!...everything points to Mr Guimbal being a man of high morals and ethics.
I'd buy one of his machines if I was in the marketplace!
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