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Hi Dave,
I was mixing oil in the fuel - 1 oz per gallon.
Ed
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Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 7:16
PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: All Parts have
arrived, Whew!
On 23/04/2005, at 7:04 AM, Ed Anderson wrote:
George, the rotor housings
had some wear - but no gouges or groves, no missing chrome - so they were
probably OK to reuse again. However, there was what appeared to be
"chatter" wear - strips across the chrome at regular intervals. When
you rubbed your fingers along them I could detect a faint wave like pattern
(valleys and peaks). So decided with new rotors and seals to go with
new rotor housings. Those were used ones and who knows how many miles
they might have had.
Well,
I was quite surprised at the amount of wear on the seals - they were
brand new 150 hours ago but the seals were badly grooved and worn - now I am
certain that wear was greatly accelerated by the poor condition of the seal
slots - but still. In any case, new stronger seals are going to be
used next - as well as additional of an air filter. I personally don't
think an airfilter would have made any difference in the apex seal breaking
- but, I also noticed that the rotor metal oil rings were worn outside the
specs and they were new 150 hours ago. So I do believe I have had some
accelerated wear due to the dust in and around my hangar over the past two
years. Since a filter is cheap, I'm going to stick one on.
Ed
Hi Ed, just for
background info, were you mixing oil in the fuel, or maybe Richard Sohn's
mod or did you use the stock Mazda metering pump? BR, Dave
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