Return-Path: Received: from [24.25.9.102] (HELO ms-smtp-03-eri0.southeast.rr.com) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.5) with ESMTP id 554248 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Thu, 02 Dec 2004 20:09:39 -0500 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=24.25.9.102; envelope-from=echristley@nc.rr.com Received: from nc.rr.com (cpe-024-211-191-066.nc.rr.com [24.211.191.66]) by ms-smtp-03-eri0.southeast.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id iB3197kc027323 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 20:09:07 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <41AFB2E8.2010305@nc.rr.com> Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 19:27:20 -0500 From: Ernest Christley User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: (unshrouded plug ?)required wrench References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Ed Anderson wrote: > I agree with Bill. I think one reason Mazda wanted to make it difficult to > stick any other than the stock plug is that some plug electrodes can reach > through into the combustion chamber and clip the apex seal as pointed out by > Paul Yaw. > > Ed Anderson So, how many knobs, ridges, bungs or blocks are completely unnecessary on the stock block? How much weight could be saved? Ernest (trying to make room for an overweight PSRU) -- http://www.ernest.isa-geek.org/ "This is by far the hardest lesson about freedom. It goes against instinct, and morality, to just sit back and watch people make mistakes. We want to help them, which means control them and their decisions, but in doing so we actually hurt them (and ourselves)."