ORIGINAL: Fxrs_tim

I really appreciate the sympathy from y'all! Hopefully this thread will save somebody else's historic bird.

From reading all the responses, it seems as everyone has had differing results with different adhesives. I'm beginning to think that it comes down to the quality of the original bond and the conditions that it's been stored in. Having been in San Antonio for its life, it's hard to tell what kind of conditions the wing went through. It's hotter than hell in the summer, cold in the winter (relatively speaking for some of you guys!), and humid as all get-out. I used to even use 3M 77 on all of my high performance slope planes and never had a failure.

I suppose that if/when I buy another used classic, that I'll go ahead and build a set of wings for it that I know are adhered well. I know there are a lot of good builders out there, but I won't chance trashing a classic again. This isn't to bash the guy that built mine - he flew it at the national level for several years before it was retired and never had a problem. It's not the $$ part that hurts, although that does suck. The fact that I just lost one of, or possibly the last, remaining PA2 is the worst.

NAVAV2002 - time to get busy on your plug so I can get a fuse from ya!!!

Tim