X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from tozar.infowest.com ([204.17.177.66] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.8) with ESMTP id 971914 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Mon, 06 Feb 2006 08:01:45 -0500 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=204.17.177.66; envelope-from=fosborn@infowest.com Received: from alora.infowest.com (alora.client.smtp.infowest.com [204.17.177.61]) by tozar.infowest.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0364245B71 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 06:00:59 -0700 (MST) Received: from [209.33.200.134] (209-33-200-134.dantooine-h2.d3c.infowest.net [209.33.200.134]) by alora.infowest.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D22E81E3024 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 06:00:58 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <43E747DC.3050509@infowest.com> Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 05:58:04 -0700 From: Fred Osborn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: flyrotary@lancaironline.net Subject: Rusty's Single Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Rusty, I would be interested to learn what you did to balance your single rotor. Did you add weight to the counterweights? Were the counterweights the only "flywheel" in this latest smooooth run? Fred O. > Well, there's certainly nothing wrong with the balance of the single > rotor parts, because it's smooooooth as can be now that the redrive > and prop are gone. Below 1800 or so, there's some shake from the lack > of flywheel weight, but it runs down to 1000 rpm or so without being > too bad. Above 2000, up to 6000 rpm, it's true rotary smooth. I > guess I just need a redrive with a suitable dampener now, but that's > not going to be any sort of priority until the RV-8 is done. > Unfortunately, that kit was delayed, and I won't even get it until the > first of March.