Return-Path: Sender: (Marvin Kaye) To: flyrotary Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 08:44:15 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from eakii.connect.com.au ([210.8.231.8] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1b1) with ESMTP id 2085653 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 04:58:02 -0500 Received: from entoo.connect.com.au (entoo.connect.com.au [192.189.54.8]) by eakii.connect.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9AC6378E4 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 20:58:01 +1100 (EST) Received: from homeofficepc (acc10-ppp38.per.dialup.connect.net.au [210.10.205.38]) by entoo.connect.com.au (Postfix) with SMTP id 878A6A7C2B for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 20:58:00 +1100 (EST) X-Original-Message-ID: <003a01c2f2b4$d8ead960$0100a8c0@homeofficepc> From: "Ian Beadle" X-Original-To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" References: Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Spark Plugs X-Original-Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 17:56:45 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ernest Christley" To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 7:19 AM Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Spark Plugs > Ian Beadle wrote: > > The attached picture may be of interest to the group. I did an early 200 > > hourly as a DI showed problems with the vacuum pump bracket. > > Ian, is one of your rotor burning hotter than the other? I notice that > the electrode is burned out of one leading and one trailing plug. > >Hi Ernest > The plugs with tips came from opposite rotors. The picture is too white they were all light brown. The rally boys reckon that the tips don't burn off, they fall off.-- Best part is that the rotary kept on rotarying with no change in performance. Maybe I should patent a plug with short tungsten tips and a huge gap! Ian Beadle > ----Because I can---- > http://home.nc.rr.com/deltabuilder > ------------------------ > > > >> Homepage: http://www.flyrotary.com/ >