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From: "George Lendich" <lendich@optusnet.com.au>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
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Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: re-drive question for Tracy
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 09:46:04 +1000
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David,

OK I see now, if he's going to use the motor shaft drive from the front
housing to drive his PSRU circulation pump what's he going to oil the apex
seals with - am I missing something ?

I agree with you on possible over complication, but doesn't hurt to have
that option.

George( down under)
>
> On 18/06/2005, at 5:55 AM, George Lendich wrote:
>
> > David,
> > Thanks mate - yep that's my plan as well, try the oil bath (splash
> > feed) and
> > then look at pressure feed.
> > I didn't think the Oil metering pump would give sufficient oil, unless
> > Don
> > is looking at dribble feed.
> >
>   ***** There were two different approaches discussed here:
>
> 1. Use the metering pump just as a circulation pump thru a small
> cooler, but still using splash feed. ( splash lube is OK for gearboxes,
> remember that 99% of car manual gearboxes use splash lube), and,
>
> 2, Use the metering pump pad/drive, to run a small pressure pump to
> spray lube and circulate oil thru a small cooler.
>
> Both could be unnecessary, and just add to complication, weight, and
> another point of failure . As someone said, "solving a problem we don't
> have"
> FWIW, Dave McC