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Todd - thanks for your reply, I was afraid my gift might seem stupid. I'm impressed you put it together with no instructions, there are a lot of pieces, many with "don't glue, lubricate" instructions so that everything moves.

my fondest memories of the rotary round-up this year was a night spent in Tracy's hangar pulling down various hunks of engines, and Tracy, ed, Charlie, and others teaching me all the variations and purposes of rotary engine parts. this took place several days into the next week while we all waited for the storms to blow through.

I'll send you a pic of my 1/5 scale two rotor when I finish it. I need to go buy some airplane glue believe it or not, it's been years since I worked at that scale. I know all the Canadians laugh, but Portland is at a standstill right now with severe ice and snow. even the light rail can't run. 24 degrees is COLD for us! I'll admit I don't feel like heading out to the garage to work.

Kevin Lane Portland, OR
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----- Original Message -----

From: Haywire

To: Rotary motors in aircraft

Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 7:53 PM

Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: my xmas present

Hi Kevin;

    This is a bit of a coincidence, because the night before you sent this message, I finally pulled mine out after 3 years and put it together.

Back when I first started my RV project, some troublemaker on the list started asking questions about where he could find one. I'd never heard of one but being an easily impressionable youth, I thought "wow, what a cool idea, I want one too". So after an exhaustive 2 minute search on E-bay I found one and started bidding. I was probably bidding against the other troublemaker... err lister, but was able to win at $25 usd. Then of coarse there was the old out-of-the-country-shipping-scam coupled with the very low Canadian dollar at the time and my little treasure cost me the better part of $50, but it would be worth it... right??

    Well, when I received it I found that the brainiac that sold it to me figured he didn't need the instructions, so he'd thrown them out and what the heck did he need these little screws for when he had a big tube of glue, so he threw them out too. When he quickly found that it wasn't going together very well, he threw it back in the box, wrapped it up in Saran wrap and advertised it as "New, still wrapped in the box" and waited for a sucker to come along. So I did. :-)

    So I finally got around to assembling it as close to properly as I could. Disassembling the previously glued pieces and cleaning them up before assembling using hardware was achieved with moderate success, so now it works... sort of. Rotors turns and plugs fire, but I'm sure glad that the one I put in the RV runs allot smoother. I'd hoped to use it to demonstrate the operation of the rotary to those unfamiliar with it. I think I might just keep it hidden:-)

    I think you got a better deal. Hope it works better

S. Todd Bartrim
Turbo 13B RV-9Endurance
C-FSTB
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