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I had approximately 160 hours after I rebuilt the engine in 2000 with the "used" high compression rotor. We'll see how long it goes with new rotors and Tracy's seals.
Ed
----- Original Message ----- From: "Steitle, Mark R" <mark.steitle@austin.utexas.edu>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Monday, December 25, 2006 6:05 AM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Dead Rotor at 3000ft
Jofarr,
We won't know the cause until the engine is disassembled and carefully examined. I will be anxious to find out if there are severe chatter marks. Ed, how many hours did your engine have when you lost the two apex seals?
Mark
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From: Rotary motors in aircraft on behalf of jesse farr
Sent: Sun 12/24/2006 8:19 AM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Dead Rotor at 3000ft
Ken's email response was the first indication I received of Joe's rotor problem. Looks like web world has lost another message. Fortunately when these things happen, we usually get it picked up in replies like this.
Now, did he just have a rotor seal problem or did it start with a plug coming apart and taking the seal out?
jofarr, soddy tn
----- Original Message ----- From: Ken Welter <mailto:rotary.coot@verizon.net>
What apex seals are you running???
I got the engine compression gage and proceeded to take the spark plug out of the front rotor - top - BR9EQ-14. Hmmm - I don't remember there being a casing around the electrode - and why is that casing sliding? Apparently the casing around the electrode broke somewhere inside the sparkplug and into two halves long ways down the electrode. Each half slides freely up and down the electrode and even sticks out a little from the end.
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