Well, Jeff, sometimes you have to look for
solutions in unusual places {:>)
Ed
From: Rotary motors in aircraft
[mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On
Behalf Of Jeff Luckey
Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 12:17
PM
To: Rotary
motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: latest
problem
Ed – your feminine side is showing
(sorry, just couldn’t resist)
But seriously – a brilliantly simple
solution!
From: Rotary motors in aircraft
[mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On
Behalf Of Ed Anderson
Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 04:57
To: Rotary
motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: latest
problem
Mike,
Glad to hear your corruption problem seems
to have gone away with the seating of the chip. No fun flying
with an intermittent problem of that kind!
Regarding the oil leak. I ran into a
similar type of problem when I needed to tap a hole where the shavings could
easily fall into the engine. Not wanting to tear the engine down to do
it, I found a solution to my problem. I “found” a
tampon, coated it with plenty of petroleum jelly and stuffed it down the hole
being careful to leave the extraction string sitting on top of the
tampon. I then cut the threads with a tap, then reached in with a pick
and got a hold of the string and carefully extracted the tampon with metal
shavings and all.
YMMV
Ed
From: Rotary motors in aircraft
[mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On
Behalf Of Mike Wills
Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 1:29
AM
To: Rotary
motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] latest
problem
My engine seems to be working really well since reseating
the improperly seated B chip in the EC-2. I've run for a few hours and have not
been able to force a re-occurance of the lost data problem. I'm cautiously
optimistic.
I also appear to be jinxed. My engine has developed an oil
leak. The engine was built by Bruce Turrentine
and one of the mods he performed was to remove the stock oil filter pad. He
didnt simply install a block off plate from Racing Beat though. He cut the pad
off flush and plugged the remaining holes with what appears to be JB Weld. One
of those plugs has suddenly started leaking. Not sure how best to fix this.
Thinking the best approach is probably to remove the epoxy and tap for threaded
plugs. But I'm afraid there may not be enough metal left to take a thread. Also
afraid of dropping epoxy shavings down into the oil passage. I'm open to
suggestions.
Man I'm tired of working on this thing. I want to fly it!
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