X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 10:27:34 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.120] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 6.0.5) with ESMTP id 6396515 for lml@lancaironline.net; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 10:18:57 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=75.180.132.120; envelope-from=tednoel@cfl.rr.com X-Original-Return-Path: X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=TPPHuiZa c=1 sm=0 a=3ojic4p/4/GFVLdSTBAvnw==:17 a=lPzcwwf0IO0A:10 a=WIJ4OnAGe2cA:10 a=bz7QFtCVFugA:10 a=05ChyHeVI94A:10 a=ayC55rCoAAAA:8 a=KGjhK52YXX0A:10 a=QH0ys8cD4PkA:10 a=oCcaPWc0AAAA:8 a=v22RBGXRlbmYFx-Q8BgA:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=4PR2P7QzAAAA:8 a=4dKaKB33dwMzcczNAWwA:9 a=UiCQ7L4-1S4A:10 a=hTZeC7Yk6K0A:10 a=_W_S_7VecoQA:10 a=frz4AuCg-hUA:10 a=djSSOgbfo6cA:10 a=rn_tIn8lllG6t1o0:21 a=3ojic4p/4/GFVLdSTBAvnw==:117 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Authenticated-User: X-Originating-IP: 184.91.178.101 Received: from [184.91.178.101] ([184.91.178.101:49647] helo=[192.168.1.5]) by cdptpa-oedge04.mail.rr.com (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 2.2.3.46 r()) with ESMTP id 92/1F-14128-D2BC7F15; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 14:18:21 +0000 X-Original-Message-ID: <51F7CB25.8010302@cfl.rr.com> X-Original-Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 10:18:13 -0400 From: Ted Noel Reply-To: tednoel@cfl.rr.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130620 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Original-To: Lancair Mailing List Subject: Re: [LML] Re: Door seal and A/C Fan References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------070503080104000000030208" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------070503080104000000030208 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I haven't tried this, but it seems that it might work. The basic idea is to cause the leak to show itself. That means that there needs to be an indicator of some sort that flows out of the leak. Air is colorless, so it won't show. And if the leak is high, a heavy indicator such as water will never reach the leak. But suppose you introduce some "smoke" such as is sometimes used to find pressurization leaks into the seal. You might need to plumb a small reservoir between the pump and the seal to get enough, but if there's a leak, "smoke" would come out. You'd get a fast visual indication. Ted Noel On 7/30/2013 6:05 AM, Denis Conkey wrote: > > Thanks to all those who responded on the door seal and fan. Lots of > good information and ideas to work from. > > It appears that we do have some sort of slow leak and now the > challenge is finding it, but we now have some good methods to > hopefully track it down quickly. I will report back what we find. > > We also received a lead on a potentially much quieter fan motor which > we will look at. > > Regards, > > Denis > > N750PJ > > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2013.0.3392 / Virus Database: 3209/6535 - Release Date: 07/30/13 > --------------070503080104000000030208 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I haven't tried this, but it seems that it might work.

The basic idea is to cause the leak to show itself. That means that there needs to be an indicator of some sort that flows out of the leak. Air is colorless, so it won't show. And if the leak is high, a heavy indicator such as water will never reach the leak. But suppose you introduce some "smoke" such as is sometimes used to find pressurization leaks into the seal. You might need to plumb a small reservoir between the pump and the seal to get enough, but if there's a leak, "smoke" would come out. You'd get a fast visual indication.

Ted Noel

On 7/30/2013 6:05 AM, Denis Conkey wrote:

Thanks to all those who responded on the door seal and fan. Lots of good information and ideas to work from.

It appears that we do have some sort of slow leak and now the challenge is finding it, but we now have some good methods to hopefully track it down quickly. I will report back what we find.

We also received a lead on a potentially much quieter fan motor which we will look at.

Regards,

Denis

N750PJ

No virus found in this message.
Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
Version: 2013.0.3392 / Virus Database: 3209/6535 - Release Date: 07/30/13

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