X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from imo-d20.mx.aol.com ([205.188.139.136] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0c1) with ESMTP id 676315 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 20:58:59 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=205.188.139.136; envelope-from=Lehanover@aol.com Received: from Lehanover@aol.com by imo-d20.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r4.1.) id q.89.2d728257 (4362) for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 20:58:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Lehanover@aol.com Message-ID: <89.2d728257.30392b9f@aol.com> Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 20:58:07 EDT Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Rotary Diagnosis please To: flyrotary@lancaironline.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="-----------------------------1124585887" X-Mailer: 9.0 SE for Windows sub 5017 X-Spam-Flag: NO -------------------------------1124585887 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 8/20/2005 12:15:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 13brv3@bellsouth.net writes: I bet Lynn or Leon could tell us what happens when you put the springs in backwards. I'm sure they've "heard of" someone "else" doing that :- Actually I have not found a spring improperly installed, or At least I have not noticed it if I have. The wrong spring would assist in the rotation of the scraper instead of preventing it. The life of the ring would be shorter by some small amount. Piston rings rotate constantly with no ill effect. The life of the "O" ring would be much shorter with the ring turning relative to the rotor and wearing on both sides of the "O" ring.. How much shorter I have no clue. Would a new rebuild smoke because a spring set is reversed, I doubt that smoking would show up for several hours of operation. After overheating the same engine for several years it started smoking. On teardown the inner and outer (stock green rings) were broken into dozens of pieces. So it had been running with the "O" rings failed in several locations and did not smoke. New "O" rings had it running again just fine. Thats all I have on them. Lynn E. Hanover -------------------------------1124585887 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

In a message dated 8/20/2005 12:15:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time,=20 13brv3@bellsouth.net writes:

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I bet Lynn= or Leon=20 could tell us what happens when you put the springs in backwards. I'= m=20 sure they've "heard of" someone "else" doing that :-

Actually I have not found a spring improperly installed, or At leas= t I=20 have not noticed it if I have. The wrong spring would assist in the rotati= on=20 of the scraper instead of preventing it. The life of the ring would be sho= rter=20 by some small amount.

Piston rings rotate constantly with no ill effect.

The life of the "O" ring would be much shorter wit= h the=20 ring turning relative to the rotor and wearing on both sides of the "O"=20 ring..

How much shorter I have no clue.

Would a new rebuild smoke because a spring set is reversed, I doubt tha= t=20 smoking would show up for several hours of operation.

After overheating the same engine for several years it started smoking.= On=20 teardown the inner and outer (stock green rings) were broken into dozens of=20 pieces. So it had been running with the "O" rings failed in several location= s=20 and did not smoke.

New "O" rings had it running again just fine.

Thats all I have on them.

Lynn E. Hanover

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