Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #53944
From: Bob Perkinson <bobperk90658@bellsouth.net>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] TDC
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:05:36 -0800 (PST)
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Steve,
You gave away at least One.  I used it to find TDC on my 13B that Sunday afternoon when I got home from Paducah, worked great, and confirmed that the timing mark on the case was in line with the mark on the E shaft.  

 
Bob Perkinson
RV-9 13B



From: Steven W. Boese <SBoese@uwyo.edu>
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Thu, February 24, 2011 10:28:05 AM
Subject: [FlyRotary] TDC

Chris,

 

The attached photo shows a device that makes it easy to determine the location of the minimum combustion chamber volume (TDC) within a degree independently of any existing front pulley or flywheel markings.  Connect it to a spark plug location and just rotate the eccentric shaft to the point where the soap bubble in the clear tube is the highest.  It might be worth a try.  I made up a number of these to give away at the Paducha fly in last summer.  The lack of interest was surprising since I couldn’t even give them away. 

 

Steve

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