X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from nm27.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com ([98.139.52.224] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.4c2o) with SMTP id 4887365 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:30:29 -0500 Received-SPF: softfail receiver=logan.com; client-ip=98.139.52.224; envelope-from=echristley@nc.rr.com Received: from [98.139.52.189] by nm27.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 02 Mar 2011 04:29:55 -0000 Received: from [98.139.52.133] by tm2.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 02 Mar 2011 04:29:55 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp1016.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 02 Mar 2011 04:29:55 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 687747.44222.bm@omp1016.mail.ac4.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 79479 invoked from network); 2 Mar 2011 04:29:55 -0000 Received: from [192.168.1.25] (echristley@74.242.207.95 with plain) by smtp102.sbc.mail.re3.yahoo.com with SMTP; 01 Mar 2011 20:29:55 -0800 PST X-Yahoo-SMTP: 40RP3pGswBDvPav1a.I8eMv.KS8bdgWBnCloVoKaow-- X-YMail-OSG: HVOxddgVM1kUC.Xrkdz_u7jUe_5Azg.UScSxWODHFpYEGch 8zphtjdR_YBBGG1MQaYNhIBpZp3rpd6luAaFR9W7_R0omTB4uuBVWKpgsCgt 0Ebe3bXXOP0DE5hp7BrEXjhfv5A9Ji17RnqN_T.PX8xlDkNUT0kXcVusQQ6M dw.g1S7xwuJStAvjvh64qkhj8HC5JmMRklQ-- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 Message-ID: <4D6DC78E.3050405@nc.rr.com> Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:29:02 -0500 From: Ernest Christley Reply-To: echristley@att.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101208 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Off Subject / Getting Even => Swerving to on subject References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 03/01/2011 07:37 PM, Ed Anderson wrote: > > Its been a few years, since I was down to see the first assembly of > your engine - 'bout time you get that thing fired up {:>) Ok. I felt a little inspired/guilty after that. Truth is, I've been dragging my feet a bit, 'cause I've been scared of it. You know that feeling of dread you get right before you close something up for good. Something that is meant to stay together, and having to take it apart again will mean days of work? That's how I've been feeling about the engine lately. Dreading to fill it with water and oil. Just knowing I will have to undo it all. I'm over that, I guess. I was able to get the shroud on before the boss came in to drag me to the gym this afternoon. After reading your post, I went down, in my pajamas, bolted the gearbox up to the engine, and put the power to the starter. Nice whirring sound this time. None of that squealing. Nice clearance gap between the rotor and it's guard on the back of the gearbox. Warm fuzzy feeling to go to sleep on. Tomorrow, I add oil.