Return-Path: Received: from ms-smtp-01.southeast.rr.com ([24.93.67.82] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.1) with ESMTP id 2530968 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Sun, 17 Aug 2003 01:22:21 -0400 Received: from nc.rr.com (cpe-024-211-183-088.nc.rr.com [24.211.183.88]) by ms-smtp-01.southeast.rr.com (8.12.5/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h7H5FMcs005148 for ; Sun, 17 Aug 2003 01:15:22 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3F3F0F97.3090100@nc.rr.com> Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 01:16:07 -0400 From: Ernest Christley User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Fiberfrax? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Russell Duffy wrote: > > Any experience with this Fiberfrax stuff? > The stuff I got from Aircraft Spruce is great... as long as you don't heat it up. I used it on several weld joints to slow the cooling. I made a cup of cardboard with the Fiberfrax coating the inside. If I tried to use it to blanket the weld directly, it would start smoking, turn grey, and immediately become even more delicate than it how it started. It would literally fall apart in your hand. My sense of it is that Fiberfrax needs to be constrained to areas where it can be completely supported on both sides. -- ----Because I can---- http://www.ernest.isa-geek.org/ ------------------------