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Bernie, I' look around the hangar. I may have one but I'm not sure.
Buly
On Jan 9, 2007, at 2:27 PM, jbker@juno.com wrote:
> This one may go down in history as a real bonehead play! Someway
> lost my dipstick. Remember checking the oil when I had the cowling
> off, put the cowling on, taxi up and down runway and parked
> airplane for the night. Went out to fly the next morning and
> coolant dropping out of exit of cowling. Removed cowling and found
> suspect leak point. Small hose going to pressure transducer had a
> short barb and the shrink clamp was not completely up on barb.
> Replaced with narrow mechanical clamp and ran the engine up with
> cowling off to pressurize system. Several neighbors observing. One
> said on shutdown , where is your dipstick and I replied from
> cockpit that it was on the right side middle of engine. His
> response was yes I see the tube, but where is the dipstick. Duh??
>
> Junk yard will not sell just a dipstick, so hopefully one of you
> rotorheads who has torn down several engines will have a spare
> dipstick that I can buy.
>
> Please email me at jbker@juno.com or call my cell 772 708 0093
>
> thanks, Bernie Kerr
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