X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com X-PolluStop-Diagnostic: (direct reply)\eX-PolluStop-Score: 0.00\eX-PolluStop: Scanned with Niversoft PolluStop 2.1 RC1, http://www.niversoft.com/pollustop Return-Path: Received: from smtpauth04.mail.atl.earthlink.net ([209.86.89.64] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3c4) with ESMTP id 869530 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 22:10:47 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=209.86.89.64; envelope-from=Dastaten@earthlink.net Received: from [24.238.206.157] (helo=earthlink.net) by smtpauth04.mail.atl.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DMGHS-0005P5-A9 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 22:10:02 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=simple; s=test1; d=earthlink.net; h=Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:X-Accept-Language:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=rZ/MQTayBywIXcZr6uS74Sv/QGu6bK36eBtyG/hJnwFonYOD0guboe6BY9WObw98; Message-ID: <425F22B2.1040506@earthlink.net> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:10:58 -0500 From: David Staten User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: V shape Apex Seal Slots? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: 9a30bff84e6cb88f95c85d38d22416599ef193a6bfc3dd4834cb65dfc14bbbe19d4b4f12eca584d57c7233ee4b332ceb350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 24.238.206.157 Umm.. dont forget you can always have them milled out to 3mm.. and salvage if there is no other damage.
 
Dave S

Ed Anderson wrote:
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Thanks Rusty, that confirms my suspicions that the rotors are shot.  You can bet I'll check ever rotor from now on. lesson learned.
 
Ed
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Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 5:26 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: V shape Apex Seal Slots?

Apex Location            Base            Top
 
Seal1                        1.99mm        2.16 - 2.26mm
Seal2                        1.98mm        2.22 - 2.25mm
Seal3                        1.98mm        2.18 - 2.20mm
 
Clearly the slot is larger at the top - is this due to design or is this due to wear?  Lynn??? Anybody?
 
 
Hi Ed,
 
I still have the brand new rotor that was dropped by the ceramic coaters, and I just measured the two un-smashed apex seal slots.  I also measured the slots on the dead rotor that was involved in my oil out adventure.  All the slots measure 1.89mm, with no sign of being larger at the top of the slot than the bottom.  
 
Cheers,
Rusty (my kingdom for a decent contractor)