Return-Path: Received: from mail.viclink.com ([66.129.220.6] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.5) with ESMTP id 2634470 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 00:17:06 -0400 Received: from viclink.com (p149.AS1.viclink.com [66.129.192.149]) by mail.viclink.com (8.11.7/8.11.7) with ESMTP id h9D4H3556871 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 21:17:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3F8A26AD.3050806@viclink.com> Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 21:14:37 -0700 From: Perry Mick User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: EWP - series pumps and wacky ideas References: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------020806000909070003070502" X-RAVMilter-Version: 8.4.3(snapshot 20030217) (mail.viclink.com) --------------020806000909070003070502 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ed Anderson wrote: > > > > > > >Has anyone experience a pump failure - I know - we have so relative few > >flying hours (other than perhaps Tracy Crook)that the lack of failure > >may be fairly meaningless. Just wondering > > > >Ed Anderson > > > > Hi Ed, I use the Mazda in-the-tank pumps, have not had a failure in 425 hours. I also have not had one fail yet in an RX-7. I've owned three 2nd gen cars, still have two of them. I have very occassionally turned off one pump on long trips when I'm at altitude. -- Perry Mick http://www.ductedfan.com --------------020806000909070003070502 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ed Anderson wrote:

Has anyone experience a pump failure - I know - we have so relative few

flying hours (other than perhaps Tracy Crook)that the lack of failure

may be fairly meaningless.  Just wondering

Ed Anderson

Hi Ed,
I use the Mazda in-the-tank pumps, have not had a failure in 425 hours. I also have not had one fail yet in an RX-7. I've owned three 2nd gen cars, still have two of them.

I have very occassionally turned off one pump on long trips when I'm at altitude.
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Perry Mick
http://www.ductedfan.com

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