X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.120] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.1) with ESMTP id 2810359 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:45:56 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=75.180.132.120; envelope-from=eanderson@carolina.rr.com Received: from edward2 ([75.191.186.236]) by cdptpa-omta06.mail.rr.com with SMTP id <20080320174516.TMSA14418.cdptpa-omta06.mail.rr.com@edward2> for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:45:16 +0000 Message-ID: <000301c88ab2$30991650$2402a8c0@edward2> From: "Ed Anderson" To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" References: Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Ceramic coated rotors Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:45:30 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 What I was thinking about was whether the relative cool fuel mixture intake impinging on the hot rotor housing material might cause sufficient thermal stress to cause it to flake. Probably no practical way to test for that. A more drastic test might be to heat up a coated rotor and spray it with water mist. Ed ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ernest Christley" To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 1:20 PM Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Ceramic coated rotors > Ed Anderson wrote: >> Impressive, Ernest >> >> My only concern would be whether adherence of the material to the rotor >> is up to snuff. Perhaps bake a "trashed" rotor and subject it to torment >> and torture? > What sort of "torment and torture" would you suggest? Marriage, followed > by waterboarding? 8*) > > -- > Homepage: http://www.flyrotary.com/ > Archive and UnSub: > http://mail.lancaironline.net:81/lists/flyrotary/List.html >