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Mark,
Jason did, in fact, weld a bead (and a nice one, at
that) around the solid pieces to prevent this from happening. Thanks for
your concern.
Bill Eslick
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 2:36
PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Another rotary
failure
I was going to send a
private email to Bill Eslick, but in the name of safety, decided to post it in
hopes that maybe someone can answer my question. I attended the
Mid-Winter Rotary fly-in and got a good, long look at Jason’s beautiful 13B
installation. I don’t know if Jason is on this list, but I noticed that
he had a combination of radiator hose bends which were clamped to straight
pieces of aluminum tubing for coolant lines. Can
anyone tell me if he put beads on the ends of those aluminum tubes? If
not, they could slip off under pressure. I mentioned the use of
common hose clamps vs. constant torque clamps and he replied that he was
planning on swapping those out before first flight. Its just an
observation, no intent to berate his beautiful installation on this
forum. I would just hate for him to have a cooling system failure (blown
hose), knowing that I didn’t say anything beforehand.
Is this “tip” on the
Wikki?
Mark
S.
From:
Rotary motors in aircraft
[mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On
Behalf Of Al Gietzen
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 1:50
PM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Another rotary
failure
On the
subject of failures in general, am I the only one who thinks there have just
been way too many of these in the last couple years?
Of course you are
not the only one. High on my priorities for selecting an engine was
RELIABILITY. It seemed to me a rotary installation could be made more
reliable than a Lycoming. I would hate to be proven wrong. We had
a lengthy discussion some months ago about peer review, inspections, etc.; but
nothing came of it. Apparently the majority feels the record is
OK.
Al
G
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