Return-Path: Received: from mail12.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.193] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3c3) with ESMTP-TLS id 883134 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 02:02:57 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=211.29.132.193; envelope-from=lendich@optusnet.com.au Received: from george (d220-236-3-247.dsl.nsw.optusnet.com.au [220.236.3.247]) by mail12.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.11) with SMTP id j3J628kR021914 for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:02:09 +1000 Message-ID: <006001c544a5$da63bfb0$f703ecdc@george> From: "George Lendich" To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" References: Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: flyrotary_Web_Archive Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:05:56 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Got it now -thanks George ( down under) > George Lendich wrote: > > > > >Dakota pick-up. The air comes into a large box, with a large, flat, pleated > >filter covering the top. Air comes into the box and slows down. Heavy > >stuff drops to the bottom, and engine air get sucked out the top. I have to > >vacuum a few tablespoons of sand out of the box whenever I change the > >filter, and I don't do any off-roading. > > > >I would have thought the filter would have picked it all up - is it a fairly > >porous filter? OR am I not understanding? > >George ( down under) > > > > > > > > > The air comes in the side, and then out through the top. The large box > expands the air and slows it down. Heavy stuff falls. Anything that > isn't heavy enough to fall gets caught by the filter that covers the top. > > > to intake <-----------------, > | > ----------------------------------------------------------- > |{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{| <----------filter > | > | > | > | > | empty space | > <--air from outside > | > | > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > -- > This is by far the hardest lesson about freedom. It goes against > instinct, and morality, to just sit back and watch people make > mistakes. We want to help them, which means control them and their > decisions, but in doing so we actually hurt them (and ourselves)." > > > >> Homepage: http://www.flyrotary.com/ > >> Archive: http://lancaironline.net/lists/flyrotary/List.html