At 06:52 PM 6/15/99 -0600, you wrote:
>     Well, I guess I have to jump in, too.

>plunked it down in a can of raw linseed oil.  Week with one end in the
oil, then a week with the other end.  That was
>over a year ago.  Those checks have all but disappeared.  The disappearing
didn't happen right away although they had
>closed noticeably.  I suspect that the oil took some time to equalize
across cell walls and to relieve the residual
>stress from the cracks.  That plane is noticeably heavier than any of the
other comparable size beech planes and
>slightly darker.

>                              George

     A question George. Did the raw linseed oil seep back out and if so for
how long? Also was the plane sticky for a time?

                              Ian