X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.201] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.8) with ESMTP id 990406 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 18:26:41 -0500 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=64.233.184.201; envelope-from=russell.duffy@gmail.com Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 71so656520wra for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 15:25:57 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type:x-priority:x-msmail-priority:x-mailer:x-mimeole:importance:in-reply-to; b=An7CmzoJvPRJL4VKBf3aEwMhFrR9YYddpXbNcjsYqTxujcOgNnGJGTuqTXNQtcxGbCAGqTPjSVKbExEmhnA+20jSlR6q58qzuCK4GGwFN8NSbfyq2ZDDyfNjm2L9sdRCEdPL2u9xPCLTqa0Cps8KT2OvC28g8tNFzZ5PqQ0L3aQ= Received: by 10.54.99.2 with SMTP id w2mr1944591wrb; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 15:25:57 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: from rd ( [65.6.194.9]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 40sm4465593wrl.2006.02.18.15.25.56; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 15:25:56 -0800 (PST) From: "Russell Duffy" To: "'Rotary motors in aircraft'" Subject: RE: [FlyRotary] Re: Another Turbo? Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 17:25:56 -0600 Message-ID: <000a01c634e2$abbc85b0$6101a8c0@rd> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_000B_01C634B0.612215B0" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2670 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000B_01C634B0.612215B0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable How confident are you in this diagnosis? =20 Pretty certain. The seal was not broken. It had been impacted by = "something" which crushed the groove a little and stopped it bouncing back. Whatever impacted it continued on around the housing, taking it's toll as it = went. Considering that this occurred at the same time as the turbine wheel = came off the shaft, I think we can be 100% sure it was the egg, then the = chicken. If it was just a missing turbine blade, like this time, I might have suspected an imported object through the intake.=20 =20 John, =20 No way I'm giving you 100% on this one. Maybe 50%, unless I see = verified fragments of turbine blade in the rotor housing :-) =20 Cheers, Rusty (Van's is spoiling me) =20 ------=_NextPart_000_000B_01C634B0.612215B0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message
How=20 confident are you in this diagnosis?   
Pretty certain.=20 The seal was not broken. It had been impacted = by=20 "something" which crushed the groove a little and stopped it = bouncing back.=20 Whatever impacted it continued on around the housing, taking it's toll = as it=20 went. Considering that this occurred at the same time as the turbine = wheel came=20 off the shaft, I think we can be 100% sure it was the egg, then the = chicken. If=20 it was just a missing turbine blade, like this time, I might have = suspected an=20 imported object through the intake. =
 
John,
 
No way I'm=20 giving you 100% on this one.  Maybe 50%, unless I see = verified=20 fragments of turbine blade in the rotor housing :-)
 
Cheers,
Rusty (Van's=20 is spoiling me)   
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