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From: "Joe Ewen" <Jewen@comporium.net>
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Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Magnetic tranfer
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 23:49:54 -0400
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Ernest,

You might want to consider stainless rod.  Good grades of stainless are not 
magnetic.  They also are less likely to corrode.  I used 1/4-28 SS rod 
(secured with aircraft grade nuts.)  Not flying yet, but about 10 days from 
being ready for an engine start.

Joe


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ernest Christley" <echristley@nc.rr.com>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 10:56 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Magnetic tranfer


>I spent the evening laying out my firewall forward.  I was going to wait 
>till everything aft of the firewall was complete, but I've got to get the 
>general layout settled so that I know where the hoses and wires are going 
>to pass through.
>
> Anyway, I'm using the LS1 coils, and plan to mount them on the engine 
> below the spark plug as several other have demonstrated...strung together 
> with 1/4" all-thread and spaced with some 3/8" aluminum tube.  But then I 
> started to looking at what I'll be running that all-thread through, a 
> bundle of thin metal plates that is supposed to keep the electrical energy 
> concentrated within the coil.  What will be the effect of running a steel 
> rod through them?  Will it connect them all electrically?  Am I being 
> goofy?  Inquiring minds want to know.
>
> I got my degree, but I never really ever got a handle on how those 
> magnetic fields work.  I can't even remember the proper names for all the 
> parts.
>
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