X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from [24.25.9.100] (HELO ms-smtp-01-eri0.southeast.rr.com) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3.6) with ESMTP id 1030965 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Mon, 04 Jul 2005 14:35:12 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=24.25.9.100; envelope-from=echristley@nc.rr.com Received: from [192.168.0.10] (cpe-065-187-243-074.nc.res.rr.com [65.187.243.74]) by ms-smtp-01-eri0.southeast.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id j64IYNBH021961 for ; Mon, 4 Jul 2005 14:34:23 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42C9812F.30501@nc.rr.com> Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 14:34:23 -0400 From: Ernest Christley User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-1.3.2 (X11/20050324) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Trials and tribulations of secondhand projects References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Kelly Troyer wrote: > Ernest, > What ratio did you specify for your order ?? 2.17/3.17 or 1.85/2.85 > -- I specified 3.17, Kelly, but none of the radiator shops seem to know anything about the ratios in the planetary sets. They all specify ratios for the transmission itself, which seems to always be a combination of two gearsets. The 6pinion set has 70 teeth on the ring and 32 teeth on the sun, making it a 3.1875 ratio. -- 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)."