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[FlyRotary] Re: All Parts have arrived,
Whew!
I have found that a milled out rotor
seams to wear out and get sloppy after about 400 hrs but then again I
am pushing near 300 hp on nitrous for water takeoff which may increase
the wear but I think its worth it to salvage a shot rotor do to the
new cost.
If its a good 2mm rotor I would run
Tracy's seals and then if the slots wear out after several hundred hrs
then mill them out it the 3mm to get more life out of
them.
I also think that Ed's problem is
form a foreign object or more likely a combination of brittle seals in
sloppy grooves where if he had Tracy's seals it may have survived
until the compression got bad and he were forced into a
rebuild.
I have also run the same 2mm seals
from Atkins that Ed was running and have seen chaffing on the sides
with very low time where with the factory 3mm seals even when the
grooves got very worn and sloppy there was no chaffing on the
sides.
I also like the 3mm seals with the
nitrous I am running but I think the best combination would be to run
new 84-85 GSELE rotors and 3mm seals from Tracy if he starts making
them which I am sure will happen in time.
Ken
I guess
we'll just have to wait on someone trying these seals in similar (now
thought of as worn out ?) rotors and see what develops. Any
volunteers ? I think the 3mm slot idea sounds good, too, if you
are really worried. Like most everyone else, probably, I hope
there is another way. I probably don't have a good rotor in the bunch
and find new cost rather exorbitant.
Maybe it was
just a high-flying tough bug ? <g>
jofarr,
soddy tn
----- Original Message ----- From: Finn Lassen
Well, if it were the brittle seals breaking then we should be safe
with Bruce's & RWS's seals, even with excessive wear.
I just hate a major failure like that without a positively identified
cause.
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