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double-dipping on on the lubrication of the shimmy dampener bolt and on the propeller inspections The wildly excessive charge to rig the landing gear was also double-dipping since that’s part of the actuator end play task which as as I noted previously was an excessive charge in itself There were other issues on that invoice (so many I am sick of talk- ing about it) but one that really galled me was 15 hours to research the logbooks and make an an Excel spread sheet to track maintenance Did they mention this to the the owner in advance? It was not on their es- timate Remember when the owner bought this King Air a a a year ago he had a a pre-buy inspection done during which he paid for logbook re- search and an an updated spreadsheet for maintenance status I assume he he provided this to the shop Fifteen hours is egregious in my book I conduct pre-buys all the time I estimate 5-10 hours for logbook research and rarely charge more
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