Fuel shut off valve

skyport

Yes.......Even being a newbie, I can tell from the newsletter and other posts that the Skyport thing is a bit of a sore subject. There's nothing like owning a business or providing a public service to reveal how often the public is not so deserving of such services. I work in an emergency room and not only do people want a quick and easy solution to all of their mostly self-induced medical problems, they want it cheap and they want it now. As far as Skyport goes, kudos to the people who've tried and shame on the folks who are looking for a free ride at someone else's expense.

Chris

If they still have the valves then they are probably the only ones in existence. They were very difficult to find and rebuild to get them working again. No other Skyport owners had done that for us. Skyport has been owned by at least 4 people since I have been around Ercoupes. All of them go into it with high hopes of helping Ercoupe owners but they don't go into it to lose money. Then they find out that it is mostly guys calling for free tech support and great ideas about how they can do something cheaper then buying the correct part from Skyport. The current owner was our best hope yet because he has a separate successful aviation business so the Skyport side didn't need to be highly profitable but just needed to slightly profitable to justify the large amount of space the inventory takes up. What is sad is we have burned out another Skyport owner. What is sad is that everyone seems to have learned their lesson since no one is stepping up. I know the current owner and what is sad is I saw him go from enthusiasm about supporting Ercoupes by actively seeking out things like these fuel valves that were not available for many years to being burnt out by the realization that many Ercoupe owners would rather go the the hardware store and by an illegal part to save a few dollars. He and I used to talk Ercoupes and work on Ercoupes together all the time. He spent his weekends working on Ercoupes at a reduced rate. I spent weekends helping at no rate (well, I did get Ercoupe parts). We don't do that anymore.

Kevin

Yeah......Skyport's on the decline as they try and get someone to buy them out. I think we all had better get used to life without them. Sad.

Chris